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How We Charge

  • TRANSPARENT – no hidden costs, you know how much you’re spending and what you’re getting for your money
  • FLEXIBLE – support can be scaled up or down depending on volume and urgency
  • AFFORDABLE – more cost-effective than a law firm

Flexible In-House Legal Support

Support for Legal Teams

For in-house counsel

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Support without adding to headcount. Work as an extension to you/your team. Perfect for overflow work, a much-needed extra pair of hands and/or mentoring/coaching.

FIXED: Discounted day rates from £1600 / day (for 8+ days per month)

FLEXIBLE: Discounted day rates from £1875 / day (for 2+ days per month, with additional sliding scale discounts for more days)

WHAT YOU GET:
  • Experienced in-house counsel
  • Single point of contact to work behind the scenes or directly with the business
  • Support with BAU work, projects, contracting peaks (e.g. quarter end etc.)
  • Access to large internal and external specialist community, e.g. employment law, IP law, legal design, etc plus overseas lawyers, share option set up/ management, tax, litigators, etc
  • Cover for absences
  • Regular client service check-ins
  • Regular practical newsletters

Fractional In-House Counsel

For scaling businesses

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Your own in-house counsel to set up and run the legal function (people, processes, tech) and do the day-to-day work e.g. contract negotiation and management, sales team support, data/GDPR compliance, vendor procurement, brand management, etc.

FIXED: Discounted day rates from £1750 / day (min 2 days per month)

FLEXIBLE: Discounted day rates from £1875 / day (for 2+ days per month, with additional sliding scale discounts for more days)

WHAT YOU GET:
  • Experienced in-house counsel
  • Single point of contact
  • Legal strategy and budget management
  • Managing and prioritising BAU work
  • Access to large internal and external specialist community, e.g. employment law, IP law, legal design, etc plus overseas lawyers, share option set up/ management, tax, litigators, etc.
  • Legal/contracting process and tech implementation
  • Regular client service check-ins
  • Regular practical newsletters

Ad-Hoc / Project

For project work

Perfect for ad-hoc work such as contract template and playbook set up, HR projects, trade mark registration, ongoing data privacy/GDPR and other compliance projects, training, etc.

£350 per hour (no min purchase)

OR BULK BUY

£300 per hour (min purchase 10 hours a month in advance)

WHAT YOU GET:
  • Experienced in-house counsel (depends on experience/availability)
  • Work scoped as part of each assignment
  • Fee estimates with change control
  • Client service check-ins and/or just practical newsletters

Who We Work With

Case Studies

Dealing with Underperformers

The Challenge: The company wasn’t dealing with underperforming staff due to a lack of experience, and also a lack of confidence, in the management team. This was having a ...

Hiring and incentivising staff when expanding into new markets

The Challenge: A tech company based in the UK was expanding rapidly into EMEA. This presented some significant challenges, including how to hire and incentivise top talent across multiple ...

Dealing with people issues whilst navigating employment legislation

The Challenge: The management team lacked confidence / competence to handle people-related issues, and also had a patchy understanding of employment law. This was leading to unnecessary conflicts and ...

Dealing with a Trade Mark objection

Placemake.io logo

The Challenge: Placemake.io, an AI company offering a range of solutions for development and investment firms, was growing rapidly and they wanted to ensure their brand was protected in-line ...

Expanding into new markets (whilst doing day-to-day legals too)

Depop logo

The Challenge: Depop were growing rapidly (in 2020 they quickly reached 25 million users globally) and recognised the importance of extending its reach to the US market as quickly as ...

From legal mayhem to calm, effective order

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The challenge: Our client had no in-house legal function. Sometimes legal matters were being ignored until they reached boiling point. At other times, they were being handled by different ...

FAQs

What do our clients think?

We’ll set up a cost-effective, efficient legal function for your business. You’ll have an experienced lawyer as your single point of contact who works as part of your operations team.

No duplication and no reinventing the wheel each time. We get to know your business quickly to manage your legal matters effectively and add value. And as your flexible in-house legal function, we can be scaled up or down depending on needs.

We analyse risk and prioritise what’s important, then manage and carry out the day-to-day legal work, all to a set budget. We’ve all worked as in-house lawyers in fast growth companies, so know what you need (and don’t need) to worry about. We’ll work with you to get deals and contracts done and help achieve your business goals.

“The fact that all their lawyers have worked inside businesses means they are commercial, pragmatic and know exactly how to prioritise what’s important.”

“We’re very pleased with the work LegalEdge are doing for us. We’re getting quick and decisive responses that are really helping us move forward.”

We work with small in-house legal teams that need additional support on a flexible basis without adding to headcount.

Whether it’s overflow work, a project or just a much-needed extra pair of hands we can help. We get the job done without supervision, working seamlessly as part of your team or behind the scenes, whatever works best for you. We don’t do endless negotiations on the clock or write long legal memos. We just help prioritise, find solutions and get it done.We understand the challenges and demands of small in-house teams because we’ve been there. We work as an extension to your team, get up to speed on business priorities quickly, and help you keep control of legal workflow and budget.

“The ideal solution for the busy in-house counsel who is unable to add a permanent head as you have the ability to flex support without the need to rely on expensive law firms.”

“LegalEdge has provided excellent, commercially focused advice as part of our in-house legal team that has helped us close contracts with our customers and partners.”

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