CanLaw founders hope to make it easier for clients to find lawyers

From left: Mamta Thaker (Sales & Biz Dev Executive), Pauline Ting (Marketing Executive), Aladin Bouzerd (Chief Technology Officer), Loo Soon Yi (Chief Executive Officer), Pang Jo Fan (Head of Marketing & Communications)

PETALING JAYA: Though legal services are increasingly a necessity, the process of finding the right lawyer that fits one’s needs and budget still remains a haphazard fumble through friends’ recommendations and cold calls.

Looking to solve that, lawyer discovery site CanLaw adopted hotel booking sites’ ethos of letting users filter lawyers by specialty and geography, then connecting them to the lawyers for an estimate and track record.