HR Advice and Legal Counsel
Our HR Legal Support and Counsel Service is focused on providing strategic and commercial HR legal advice and support that enables growth in line with your business objectives.
The LegalEdge HR legal support and counsel service provides you with one dedicated point of contact for employment support. We are an integral part of your operations team – taking time to understand your culture and ensure your HR legal requirements, contracts, policies and processes reflect and support your values and growth plans.
Your people are your biggest asset. But attracting and retaining talent and managing your team can be a challenge – so getting it right from the outset with good HR legal advice and strategy is paramount to growth.
Our HR Legal Support Service
We’ll help navigate all your HR legal counsel needs from getting to grips with early-stage hiring right through to managing established teams as a fast-growth business.
As your workforce increases so does the time it takes to manage people and related issues, including keeping up with training requirements and dealing with problems. We can provide the extra resource to reduce the burden with our HR legal counsel service.
You need a single point of contact in HR who works as an extension of your team on a flexible basis, who understands your business and can prioritise what’s important and add value.
Whether or not you have an in-house lawyer and or HR manager, we can provide a pair of hands to manage the work and budgets and support your team.
- 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
- Start-Up companies
- Small budgets
- Supports short term business goals
- Quick advice & support
- Great for ad-hoc work (e.g. basic policy templates, support with hiring and onboarding, IR35, bespoke training)
- Growth / Established companies
- Supporting HR and / or legal function
- Great for regular legal HR work (e.g. bespoke policies and/or handbooks, support for remote, flexible and international working)
- Flex up or down
- Predictable legal budget management
- Managing & prioritising legal HR
- Single point of contact working as part of ops team
- Proactive legal (e.g. helps reduce business risk, simplifies processes, implementing easy workflow to promote self-serve culture)
- Telephone support
- Growth / Established companies
- Value / volume discount
- First 3 months (typically 4-8 days a month)
- Ensuring basics are right / Get Legal HR ready
- Legal HR Health Check
- 6 month project plan
- Tackling key priorities
- 3 months + (4 days a month)*
- On-going Legal HR BAU support
- Training
- Telephone support
* days agreed following Legal HR Health Check and project plan
What Do Our Clients Think?
Meet The Team
Our HR support is headed up by our Legal Employment Counsel – Emma Wayland and Nick Pritchett – who specialise in giving practical employment and HR advice for fast growth businesses.