Where can start-ups and entrepreneurs turn for much needed legal guidance from start-up to growth? Cue Legal Logik, one of the only legal firms that provides free legal services to small businesses.
Jamie Benizri, the firm’s founder, never expected to be reinventing the legal trade. His first degree was in physiology, completed at McGill University, and he was pretty sure he'd end up in medical school. With a knack for business, he managed to build and sell both software and real estate companies before he’d even graduated. But one thing led to another and he ended up in law school.
Although he was wholly uninterested in the classes, he persevered and started his career at a small law firm in 2008. "I didn't like the academic side of law, but I loved the practice,” Jamie says. “My mind was like a sponge, absorbing everything and deciphering the language and culture of being a lawyer.” Soon he was working as a prosecutor with the city of Montreal.
While working with business clients, Jamie noticed something he didn't like. "There was always tension between client and lawyer over billing. For the client, the bill was always an unexpected surprise and I felt the billing model was out of tune with modern commerce,” he explains. His unconventional ideas about the commerce of law spurred him to launch Legal Logik in 2011, a legal services firm obsessed with championing the cause of entrepreneurship.
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