Services for Solicitors

As barristers we are used to offering our services to solicitors for the benefit of their clients but there are frequently times when our clients need advice in their own right.

We provide a wide range of services to solicitors to address the key commercial issues that they encounter in the course of managing and running their practices.

We recognise that as fellow lawyers, you will often have the skills and experience to deal with many of these matters yourselves, however, there may be occasions when specialist independent advice and guidance is required.

Where can we help?

You are running a professional service business – and so are we. We provide specialist advice on key commercial issues to enable you to structure, manage and run your business in the most effective manner, to profit from your business, and to deal with potential threats to the success of that business.

Structuring your business

We have specialist expertise in all forms of UK commercial structures including:

• partnership agreements
• limited liability partnerships
• full incorporation
• service companies
• expulsion and retirement of partners

Managing and running your business

Increased specialisation can lead to increased risk and specialist external advice can often cut through the difficulties of resolving business and management issues in-house. We frequently advise on:

• employment issues including redundancies, dismissals, employment contracts and disciplinary procedures
• drafting employment contracts and effective restrictive covenants
• retainers and terms of business with clients and suppliers
• real estate issues
• IT and IP matters

Profiting from your business

Successful and profitable businesses need well-informed senior managers. We advise leading professional service firms on the following issues:

• costs
• conditional fee agreements
• insurance matters including policy coverage, non-disclosure and co-operation
• commercial disputes and contractual matters
• proceeds of crime
• fraud and money laundering

Staying in business!

High levels of risk are increasingly part of professional life. We can help your firm to plan for the foreseeable risk and mange the unforeseen threats to the business which can have devastating consequences in both personal and professional terms. We have significant experience advising on:

• complaints and investigations
• professional negligence
• partnership disputes
• protecting client relationships