Enterprise GC appointment
THE LEGAL SUPPORT CHALLENGE

The economics of a general counsel

At a certain scale, legal work stops being occasional and becomes constant.

The usual answer is to hire a general counsel: a six-figure commitment, months to recruit, and one person holding contracts, employment, data protection, disputes and governance at once. When they are away, the function pauses with them.

A fractional GC solves the cost but still rests on one person. An external firm bills by the hour, with unpredictable cost and advice one matter at a time.

THE LAWYERLY MODEL

How the engagement works

With Lawyerly, the legal function goes from challenge to advantage. Your dedicated senior solicitor works ahead of the business, so legal becomes part of your strategic direction, not a cost you manage.

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A named lead solicitor

One solicitor who builds a working knowledge of your business and how it makes decisions, and stays in place. Because our solicitors are employed, not freelance, that continuity is structural rather than a promise.

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Specialist depth behind them

When a matter calls for an employment specialist or a data protection lead, the right solicitor takes it on. You keep the breadth no single appointment can give you.

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A fixed monthly fee

Agreed in advance under your Enterprise plan. No hourly billing, so no reason to weigh the cost of a question before asking it.

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Full visibility

Every matter is tracked in the Client Hub, so you always know what is open, what is progressing and who is acting on it.

SERVICE SCOPE

The work you can hand over

The breadth and consistency of an in-house legal team, without building one.

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Everyday legal advice

Unlimited day-to-day advice across the business. Ask as often as you need, without the call ending in an invoice.

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NDAs & digital terms

NDAs, website terms, platform terms, and data processing agreements.

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Commercial contracts

Drafting, reviewing and negotiating customer, supplier and service agreements.

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Employment law & HR

Contracts, policies, grievances, disciplinaries and redundancy support.

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Shareholder & founder agreements

Founder and shareholder agreements covering vesting, transfers and exit provisions.

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Corporate governance

Articles, directors' service agreements and ongoing corporate housekeeping.

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Privacy & compliance

Data protection documentation, compliance frameworks and breach guidance.

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IP & trade marks

UK trade mark searches, filings and brand protection. One filing fee included.

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Commercial leases

Leases up to three years, including negotiation, break clauses and renewals.

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Dispute resolution

Pre-action advice, letters before action and settlement negotiation.

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Debt recovery

Letters of demand, recovery strategy and enforcement of payment terms.

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Proactive legal planning

Regular legal reviews to surface risk early and align legal work with business priorities.

THE LAWYERLY DIFFERENCE

How Lawyerly compares

There are four ways to hold a legal function at scale. Each has a real strength. Only one gives you breadth, continuity, a fixed cost and a legal function that works ahead of you.

In-house GC Fractional GC External firm, hourly
Fixed, all-inclusive monthly fee
One all-inclusive fee, no extra hours or bills
Salary, insurance, and overheads
Retainer, often plus extra fees
Hourly, billed per matter
Specialist depth, under one lead
A dedicated senior solicitor, supported by a team of specialists
One lawyer across all areas
One fractional GC across all areas
Specialists, but you coordinate them
Embedded in your business
Your dedicated solicitor builds commercial context
Fully embedded
Embedded, but only part-time
Outside your commercial context
A live view of every matter
Everything tracked in the Client Hub
Relies on meetings and reports
As agreed, rarely with a live view
Invoice narratives or progress reports
Enterprise Board Reports
THE BOARD VIEW

The view your board needs

Every Lawyerly Enterprise plan includes a monthly board report and a live Client Hub. The board sees every open matter, who is acting on it, and where it stands.

Advice given and decisions taken sit in a complete record, ready for the board pack. The audit trail holds across solicitors and across matters, so the line of sight your board relies on does not break when personnel or scope change.



WORKING ALONGSIDE

Where your specialist firm fits

Most established businesses already work with a specialist firm for the matters outside an everyday legal function: court advocacy, major transactions, sector regulation, anything beyond England and Wales. A Lawyerly Enterprise plan does not replace that. We hold the everyday work, your specialist firm holds the dedicated briefs.

Your named lead becomes the institutional memory across both, briefing your specialist firm with full context, reviewing their work commercially, and coordinating when more than one is involved.

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I spent years as in-house counsel. Legal works best when it sits with the business, not across the table from it.

David Silvey

Legal Service Director

Those years in-house taught me that good legal work is commercial first. Not a list of risks, but a read on what the business is trying to do and how to get it there with the least friction.

So we work ahead of you. Your solicitor gets to know the business, catches the problems worth catching before they become expensive, and keeps legal moving at the pace your business needs.

THE ENTERPRISE PLAN

Your everyday legal function, on a fixed monthly fee

From routine contracts to complex commercial matters, your named lead and the team behind them keep the business protected, legally sound and ready to move when opportunity knocks.

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FOR ESTABLISHED BUSINESSES
£1,379
per month + VAT
What's included
  • A dedicated senior solicitor
  • Specialist depth across our service areas
  • A fixed monthly fee, agreed in advance
  • Proactive planning and full visibility through the Client Hub, with a monthly board report
COMMON QUESTIONS

The questions people usually ask

How quickly can we be operational?

Immediately. After an initial consultation, you are set up on the Client Hub the same day, where identity and compliance checks are completed in minutes. Your named lead solicitor then starts by building a legal strategy with you and mapping out the work, so the plan is taking shape from the first week. 

Is this really a replacement for hiring a general counsel?

For the everyday legal function, yes. We hold contracts, employment, data protection, governance and day-to-day advice, with specialist depth behind your named lead. What we do not do is reserved work such as court litigation and advocacy, or law outside England and Wales. Some clients keep a specialist firm for those briefs, and your lead coordinates with them.

How is the monthly fee set?

The Enterprise plan starts at £1,379 per month plus VAT, agreed in advance. The fee reflects the breadth and pace of work the plan is calibrated for, not a clock. There is no hourly billing, and no charge for emails, calls or short queries.

What happens if our named lead is unavailable?
The work does not stop with them. Because every matter is recorded in the Client Hub with a full audit trail, another solicitor can pick it up with the context already in front of them. Continuity is the point of the model, not an exception to it.
How do you handle our data?

Your data is handled under our privacy policy and in line with UK GDPR. Where we process personal data on your behalf, our data processing addendum sets out what we process and why, and we maintain a list of subprocessors.

How do you handle confidentiality and conflicts?

Our solicitors are bound by the SRA Code of Conduct and by professional confidentiality. We run conflict checks before taking on any new work, and if a conflict arises we tell you and manage it under our professional obligations.

Are you regulated by the SRA?
Our solicitors are individually regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority and bound by its Code of Conduct, and we carry professional indemnity insurance covering their work. Lawyerly itself is not an SRA-authorised firm, which is the modern legal services model the SRA introduced in 2019. The solicitors who deliver your work remain personally accountable to the same professional standards.