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FOR ACCOUNTANTS, ADVISERS AND NETWORKS

A solicitor for the businesses you advise

Your clients get a named, regulated solicitor on a fixed monthly fee, working alongside the advice you already give. You get somewhere safe to send the legal questions they bring you, and an arrangement that recognises the introduction.

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Dr Jackie Nagtegaal

Co-Founder & Director

The businesses you advise come to you first when they are unsure. This gives you a good answer when the question turns legal.

Dr Jackie Nagtegaal

Co-Founder & Director

WHERE WE FIT

Your clients already bring you legal questions

Your clients bring you more than the work you are engaged for. A contract to sign. A dispute with a supplier. A question about an employee. These are legal questions, and they sit just outside what you are qualified to advise on. Usually the client is left to find a solicitor alone, or waits until the problem is expensive.

That is where Lawyerly fits. The businesses you advise get a named solicitor on a fixed monthly fee, working alongside the advice you already give. You stay the trusted adviser. We handle the legal work, and nothing else.

WHO WE PARTNER WITH

Built for the people businesses already trust

If businesses come to you for advice, they are already bringing you legal questions. Here is how that usually looks.

  • Accountants, bookkeepers and fractional FDs

    You are often the first to see when something is wrong with the numbers or the paperwork. That puts you in the best position to point a client to a solicitor before it becomes a dispute.

  • HR consultants and people teams

    You handle the people side, right up to the point it becomes employment law. When it crosses that line, you can hand it to a solicitor rather than carry the risk yourself.

  • Business consultants and advisers

    You help businesses grow, and growth brings legal work with it. Pointing clients to a solicitor who keeps pace is something few advisers can offer.

  • Fractional and in-house legal teams

    You carry the legal load for the businesses you serve, and there is always more than one desk can hold. We take the everyday and the overflow, so you stay on the work only you can do.

  • Business networks and membership bodies

    You bring businesses together and look after their interests. A regulated solicitor on a fixed fee is something you can extend to every member, as one more reason to belong.

  • Non-executive directors and board advisers

    You sit close to the decisions that carry legal weight. Shareholder questions, governance gaps, contracts signed in a hurry. Having a regulated solicitor to point to means the issues you raise in the boardroom get dealt with.

A BETTER ANSWER

Compared with the usual alternatives

When a legal question comes up, most advisers have three options. Only one of them keeps you in the picture.

The alternatives
What the client pays Whatever they are quoted, usually by the hour
When it helps Once the problem is already expensive
What you hear back Usually nothing
What the client pays Hourly rates, with the total known at the end
When it helps When a matter is formally instructed
What you hear back It depends on the firm
What the client pays A fixed monthly fee, agreed in advance
When it helps All year, before problems arise, with unlimited day-to-day advice
What you hear back We confirm when the introduction is taken up, and the arrangement is agreed with you in writing
WHAT THIS DOES FOR YOUR PRACTICE

More than a referral fee

The fee is only part of it. The greater value is in what this does for the relationships you already hold.

  • An arrangement that rewards introductions

    You introduce a client, we do the rest, and the introduction is recognised in the form we agree with you. Nothing to build, nothing to run, no product of your own to support.

  • Clients who stay

    A client you sent to a good solicitor has one more reason to stay with you. You remain the person who solved it, and that is worth more than the fee.

  • Nothing that competes with you

    We do legal work and nothing else. We do not offer accountancy, HR consultancy or business advice, so there is nothing for us to cross-sell and your client stays your client.

  • No cost, no admin

    There is no cost to set up and no admin to handle. We have the conversation, we do the work, and we manage the engagement from start to finish.

WORKING TOGETHER

Three ways to work with us

How closely you work with us is your decision, and you can change it as your practice changes. Some advisers introduce a client now and then. Others make us a standing part of how they look after the businesses on their books. Networks extend us to their whole membership. Start wherever suits you.

Refer the occasional client

When a client needs a solicitor, you make the introduction and we take it from there. We have the conversation, we do the work, and the introduction is recognised in whatever form we have agreed with you. Typically a referral fee.

Refer as standard

You introduce clients as a matter of course, whenever the need arises. Because the relationship is an ongoing one, the arrangement usually reflects that: an ongoing arrangement rather than a fee per client.

Build something together

For networks, membership bodies and established partners, the relationship can go further. A preferred rate for your members, a co-branded offering, or a legal session for the membership. Typically preferred rates, co-branding, or both.

HOW A REFERRAL WORKS

From introduction to engagement

Four steps, and only the second one is yours. Everything else is handled by us.

We agree the arrangement

Before your first introduction we agree how we will work together and put it in writing: how introductions are recognised, and how the arrangement is disclosed to clients, as the SRA Code requires.

You make the introduction

When one of the businesses you look after needs a solicitor, you introduce them to us and step back. That is the whole of your part.

We take the client on

We have the conversation with the client, agree the plan that fits their business and sign them up on the Client Hub. Identity checks take minutes, and they are matched with a named solicitor.

You stay the trusted adviser

The client remains yours. The legal work and the regulatory responsibility sit with us, we confirm when the introduction has been taken up, and it is recognised in the form we agreed.

OUR COMMERCIAL LEGAL SERVICES

What your clients get

Legal support across the business, from one named solicitor.

  • Everyday legal advice

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

  • NDAs & digital terms

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

  • Commercial contracts

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

  • Employment law & HR

    Contracts, policies, grievances, disciplinaries and redundancy support.

  • Shareholder & founder agreements

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

  • Corporate governance

    Articles, directors' service agreements and ongoing corporate housekeeping.

  • Privacy & compliance

    Data protection documentation, compliance frameworks and breach guidance.

  • IP & trade marks

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

  • Commercial leases

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

  • Dispute resolution

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

  • Debt recovery

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

  • Proactive legal planning

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

CLIENT TESTIMONIALS

What business owners say about working with us

4.8 on Google

A fresh approach. Exceptional value.

A fresh approach to legal services. They've guided us through multiple planned and reactive cases for our business. Exceptional turnaround times and great value for money.

Kerry Power Client Relations, Pantheon Property Services
COMMON QUESTIONS

The questions advisers ask us

Straight answers on how an introduction works, what it means for your relationship with the client, and where the responsibility sits.

No. We do legal work and nothing else. We do not offer accountancy, HR consultancy or business advice, so there is nothing for us to cross-sell. Your client stays your client. In practice the relationship usually strengthens, because you become the adviser who solved their legal problem.

That depends on you. For some partners it is a referral fee per client. For others it is an ongoing arrangement, a preferred rate for their clients or members, or a co-branded offering. Whatever we agree is put in writing before your first introduction, so both sides know exactly where they stand.

Yes. The SRA Code requires referral arrangements to be disclosed to clients, and we do this as standard. Transparency protects the relationship rather than threatening it, and in our experience clients appreciate knowing exactly how the introduction came about.

Nothing changes for you beyond what we agreed at the start. There is no clawback on anything already paid, and it has no effect on your other introductions or your arrangement with us.

You are not. You make an introduction, and everything from there is handled by us: the conversation, the engagement and the sign-up. You give no legal advice and take no part in delivering the service, so the responsibility sits with a regulated solicitor, not with you or your firm.

Yes. For networks and membership bodies the usual shape is a preferred rate for members, sometimes with co-branded materials or a legal session for the membership. We agree the shape with you and put it in writing before anything is offered.

Your client's work is done by a named solicitor who is individually regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority and bound by its Code of Conduct, and we carry professional indemnity insurance covering their work. Our solicitors are employed, not freelance, so the same person stays in place for your client.

TALK TO US

Let's talk about the businesses you advise

Book a call with Willem, one of our founders. We will look at the kind of clients on your books, how an introduction would work in practice and what form the arrangement should take. No cost, and no commitment.

Willem van der Merwe

Co-Founder

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