Aus Lawyers Weekly reports
A new legal start-up in Victoria connecting law students with renters seeking advice for rental repairs has seen a 600 per cent increase in demand amid COVID-19.
Anika Legal, a free online legal service, was running business as usual with about five clients per week accessing its free online legal service.
Then COVID-19 struck and the “tenancy space was blown away by the pandemic”.
In response, co-founder and chief executive Noel Lim and the Anika Legal team spent about a fortnight building a new function, dubbed COVID-19 rent reduction support, which provides assistance for tenants seeking a rent reduction.
As a result, Mr Lim says Anika Legal has gone from five clients a week to five per day.
And that’s “without marketing as hard as we could have”.
