KNOWLEDGE HUB
Frequently asked questions about your Lawyerly subscription
Lawyerly gives UK businesses subscription and fixed-fee legal services from SRA-regulated solicitors, delivered through the Client Hub. Below are the questions founders, owners, and operations leads ask most often.
- About Lawyerly
- Plans and services
- Working with us
- Billing
Lawyerly is a commercial legal company providing subscription and fixed-fee legal services to businesses in England and Wales. Our SRA-regulated solicitors handle day-to-day commercial legal work (contracts, employment, IP, compliance, leases, disputes) for a fixed monthly or annual fee, delivered through the Client Hub.
We're built for businesses that want predictable pricing and a named solicitor who knows their company, rather than hourly billing and a different voice on the phone each time.
No. Lawyerly is a commercial legal company, not an SRA-regulated law firm. The solicitors who deliver your work are individually authorised and regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority and remain personally bound by the SRA Code of Conduct.
This structure was made possible by SRA reforms allowing qualified solicitors to deliver legal services through alternative models. It means we handle most day-to-day commercial legal work, but we do not carry out reserved legal activities (court representation, conveyancing, probate, notarial acts).
Yes. Every solicitor delivering your work is individually authorised and regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority. You will have one named solicitor overseeing your matters; where specialist input is needed, they may bring in a colleague.
A traditional law firm is SRA-regulated as a firm, and can carry out reserved legal activities like court representation and conveyancing. A traditional firm typically bills by the hour, with costs that move with the work.
Lawyerly is regulated differently. The firm itself is not SRA-regulated, but the solicitors are, individually. We focus on non-reserved business legal work and price it as a subscription or a fixed fee, so the cost is known upfront. For most day-to-day commercial legal work, the experience is the same as instructing a law firm. For court work, you would instruct a litigator and we can help with the handover.
Founders and growing businesses across England and Wales. Our clients range from pre-incorporation startups to established companies turning over several million, across industries including tech and AI, e-commerce, creative and media, hospitality, retail, construction, and professional services.
A legal subscription gives your business ongoing access to your solicitor across a defined scope of commercial legal work for a flat monthly or annual fee. The subscription term is 12 months from checkout. You can use it across as many matters as your plan reasonably covers, with no per-question or per-matter charges within scope.
Subscription plans start from £579 per month. Pricing is tiered by turnover, legal needs and stage of growth. The full breakdown sits on our pricing page.
Subscription plans cover comprehensive commercial legal work, including:
- General legal advice and guidance
- Commercial contracts, NDAs, supplier and customer agreements
- Employment contracts, policies, and HR matters
- Corporate housekeeping (resolutions, shareholders' agreements, founder agreements, and IP assignments)
- Compliance, privacy, and policy work
- Trade mark searches, filings, and brand protection (we cover the official filing fee for one standard UK trade mark in one class)
- Commercial leases under three years
- Pre-action disputes and debt recovery
- Franchise documentation
Some work sits outside the subscription because it needs specialist representation, formal filings, or a separately scoped project:
- Court proceedings, litigation, and other reserved legal activities
- Mergers, acquisitions, and full investment round work
- Conveyancing and commercial leases longer than three years
- Tax, accounting, immigration, and other non-legal advice
- Legal advice outside England and Wales
If something falls outside the subscription, we will tell you. Often we can take it on as a fixed-fee service. Where it is better placed elsewhere, we will point you to the right specialist.
For businesses that need legal input more than once or twice a year, yes. A single hour with a traditional London commercial solicitor now averages around £400, and a contract review can run to £1,500 or more on hourly billing. A legal subscription gives you a known monthly cost, faster turnaround, and a solicitor who already knows your business, so you do not pay for repeat onboarding every time.
If your business only needs one legal task a year, a fixed-fee service is usually a better fit.
A fixed-fee legal service is a one-off piece of legal work priced upfront before work begins (a specific contract, a particular project, a defined matter). Before we start, we issue a written proposal setting out the scope, assumptions, fee, and timing. Work begins once the invoice is paid and onboarding checks are complete.
Fixed-fee services suit businesses with a single project rather than ongoing legal needs, or subscription clients with a matter that falls outside their plan.
No. Your subscription fee is the price you pay. The exceptions, flagged in advance, are: VAT where applicable, external third-party costs (filing fees, expert fees, courier charges), and any work outside scope that you ask us to handle separately under a fixed fee.
Our plans assume a reasonable, proportionate level of use. There is no fixed cap on questions or matters. Reasonable use only becomes relevant if overall volume, urgency, or complexity goes well beyond the typical pattern for your plan. If we think that is happening, we will raise it with you directly and look for a practical solution.
No. Our solicitors are qualified in England and Wales and advise on the laws of England and Wales only. For international questions, we will point you to specialists in the relevant jurisdiction.
You will have one named solicitor overseeing your matters. They handle the bulk of the work and stay your main point of contact. Where a matter needs specialist input, your solicitor may bring in a colleague, but they remain accountable for your work.
Yes. Our solicitors use AI tools for tasks such as research, drafting, summarising, and document review. The solicitor remains professionally responsible for the legal advice and the work we deliver. The AI providers we use are listed in our Privacy Policy and Data Processing Addendum.
The Client Hub is the online workspace where you interact with your solicitor. From a single login, you can message your solicitor, book consultations, upload documents, track matter progress, view drafts and completed work, and manage billing.
You will receive Client Hub access when onboarding is complete. Log in at app.lawyerlink.co.
Yes. Most communication runs through the Client Hub because it keeps everything in one place, but we also work by email, phone, and video call where it makes sense.
Existing clients: log a message through the Client Hub or email support@lawyerly.co.
New enquiries: book a free fifteen-minute call or email info@lawyerly.co.
Call us on 0203 442 8479.
Tell us. We would much rather hear about it directly and put it right. Our Complaints Policy sets out how to raise a concern, how we investigate, and the timescales we follow.
Subscription fees are collected automatically through Stripe using the card you provide at checkout. You can choose monthly or annual billing. Annual billing is paid in one instalment at checkout, with a 10% discount. Monthly billing is a payment schedule for the 12-month subscription, not a rolling month-to-month arrangement.
Once we have confirmed the scope of a fixed-fee matter, we issue an invoice. You can pay by card on file via Stripe, through a payment link, or by bank transfer. Substantive work starts once payment has cleared and onboarding checks are complete.
Some matters involve third-party costs (filing fees, registry fees, expert fees, courier charges, counsel's fees on the rare occasion specialist input is needed). These sit outside our fees and you pay them in addition. We flag them in advance.
Yes, where it applies. Our fees are quoted exclusive of VAT, which is added at the prevailing rate.