How we help
Most startups reach a point where legal stops being occasional. Contracts arrive every week, the round needs documents, the team is growing, and nobody has time to brief a new firm from scratch each time. Hiring a full-time lawyer is the traditional answer, but it is a senior salary for a role that is busy in bursts. We sit in the gap: a general counsel function you can call on as you need it, for a fraction of the cost of a full-time hire.
We start by learning your business. When we onboard you, we read your existing contracts and build what we call your client brain: your commercial positions, the clauses you care about, the redlines you will accept and the ones you will not, and whatever playbooks your team already has. Every matter after that is reviewed against how you think about risk rather than a generic template, so we negotiate faster and your team holds a consistent line. Some people call this fractional general counsel or GC as a service. We call it being your legal team.
How it compares. A traditional firm bills by the hour, so every question costs money and you ration them. A template library looks cheap until the one clause you did not understand costs you the deal. A full-time hire is a senior salary for work that comes in bursts. We give you senior solicitors on demand, at a fixed fee you know before we start, with most routine contracts back within hours and every message answered within 24 hours. What you get:
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A solicitor who knows your business
The same senior solicitors on your matters, reachable on Slack, email or WhatsApp during UK working hours.
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Your client brain
Your positions, playbooks and past redlines, learned at onboarding and applied to every contract after that.
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Your existing contracts, read
A review of what you have already signed, to find the risk, map where agreements drift from your standard terms and build the playbook.
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Fixed fees, agreed upfront
Each matter quoted before we start, or a standing monthly arrangement when your volume makes that more sensible.