A legal department, without the department.
For companies signing too many contracts to handle them one at a time, and with no in-house legal team yet.
It is a recurring engagement, with scope and fee agreed by period. The company stops calling a lawyer only once the problem has already happened.
How it works
One contact, always the same
You speak to the same lawyer throughout. They know the company's history and do not need to be briefed from scratch on every request.
A fee per period, not by the hour
Scope and fee are set before the work starts, with an agreed cap on hours. You know the cost before you need it.
Routine, not only emergencies
Repeat contracts, minutes, corporate amendments and the everyday questions all sit inside the same arrangement.
A way into the other practices
When a matter becomes a dispute, an investigation or a transaction, it is handled by the relevant practice, with the same contact staying on it.
What it usually covers
Repeat contracts
Supply, services, distribution and confidentiality: review, negotiation and the company's own templates for the cases that recur.
Day-to-day corporate work
Minutes, amendments to the articles, quotaholders coming in and out, and the formalisation of decisions already taken.
Governance sized to the company
Policies, approval thresholds and controls proportionate to the operation, not copied from a listed company's manual.
Risk triage
Spotting early what needs to become a matter of its own, and saying when the issue has outgrown this arrangement.