Good Legal. Every month. Fairly priced.
Your external legal department
Practical, commercially focused legal support for your business, from contracts and technology agreements to compliance and employment, on a predictable monthly retainer. All the benefit of an ongoing legal resource, without the cost of a full-time hire.
Six areas of law. One standard: good legal work.
Once-off, or as part of a monthly retainer. Not sure where your question fits? Just ask.
- 01Commercial
Commercial & contracts
The agreements your business runs on, drafted, reviewed and negotiated so they protect your commercial interests and treat everyone fairly.
“A big client sent a 40-page contract. Can we sign it?”
More on contracts - 02Technology
Technology & IT law
Software, SaaS, licensing and AI terms that match how your product, your pricing and your code actually work.
“A freelancer wrote our code. Do we actually own it?”
More on technology law - 03Privacy
Data protection & POPIA
Comply with POPIA, and GDPR where you serve people in the EU, in a way that fits how your business actually handles data.
“A customer asked what we do with their data. What do we say?”
More on data protection - 04Governance
Governance & compliance
The policies, documents and frameworks that keep a growing business well run, and show it.
“We’ve grown fast, and our policies haven’t kept up.”
More on governance - 05People
Employment & HR
Contracts, policies and processes that are fair to your people and protect your business.
“We need to take disciplinary action and want to do it fairly.”
More on employment law - 06Advisory
Ongoing legal advisory
A consistent legal resource for management’s everyday decisions: your external legal department.
“We have legal questions every week, but not a full-time lawyer’s worth.”
More on retainers
Monthly retainers
Your business needs legal support. Not necessarily a full-time legal department.
A retainer gives you an agreed allocation of legal help each month, for a fixed fee. More flexibility, more cost certainty, and someone who already knows your business when the next contract lands.
Compare retainersFor smaller businesses that need legal help now and then.Regular needs10 hoursBusiness Legal Partner
For growing businesses with regular contract and operational legal work.Ongoing involvement20 hoursFractional Legal Counsel
For established businesses that want a consistent external legal resource.Substantial needs20+ hoursTailored or group retainer
For groups of companies and businesses with substantial ongoing legal needs.
Hours are a guide to the monthly level of support. Our fees are available on request: ask for our fee guide.
Who we work with
Legal support that keeps up with your product.
Technology and IT companies and software development businesses get advice from people who understand how software is built, licensed and sold, and who know where the legal risk in it really sits.
Talk to us about it- 01Software development and SaaS agreements
- 02Ownership of code and content
- 03Data protection clauses and POPIA
- 04AI-related contract terms
An external legal department, sized for you.
Start-ups, entrepreneurs, small and medium-sized businesses and professional service firms get consistent legal support without the cost of a full-time appointment, at a fee agreed upfront.
Talk to us about it- 01Client and supplier agreements
- 02Employment contracts and policies
- 03POPIA and PAIA compliance
- 04A sounding board for everyday decisions
Extra legal capacity, across every entity.
Established businesses that need more legal capacity, and companies with subsidiaries or group entities, get an agreed scope of support across the group, alongside management.
Talk to us about it- 01A group retainer across entities
- 02Governance documentation
- 03Legal risk assessments
- 04Support for management
Simple, flexible and built around your business.
- Step 1
We get to know your business
Its structure, its operations and the legal needs that keep coming up.
- Step 2
Choose your retainer
We agree a monthly allowance of legal support that suits your expected needs and your budget.
- Step 3
Send work as it comes up
Contracts, documents and legal questions, whenever they arise. The work is managed against your monthly allowance.
- Step 4
Predictable monthly billing
A fixed monthly fee and a monthly statement, with any extra work agreed before we start.
What makes us different
We don’t hand you a policy and leave.
We take your company, or your whole group of companies, through every step of data protection compliance and stay with you until each one is done. And because most businesses now use AI, we check those tools too.
Data protection compliance, all the way through.
Under POPIA, PAIA and the other legislation that applies to your business. It starts with a compliance assessment, charged at a fixed fee agreed upfront and reviewed by an attorney.
- 01Compliance assessment: you answer our questions in your client hub
- 02Your report: where you stand, reviewed by an attorney, with recommendations
- 03Policies, notices and your PAIA manual, provided
- 04Changes put in place: contracts, security, your website and staff training
- 05The people responsible appointed, each with their own hub access
- 06Compliance review, and a certificate of the steps completed
We audit the AI systems you use.
AI tools can quietly move personal and confidential information outside your business. We review each tool you use and give you a clear list of what to fix.
- Which AI tools your people use, approved or not
- What personal and confidential information goes into them
- Where that information is processed and stored
- What the supplier’s terms allow it to do with your data
- An AI use policy your team can follow
Your whole group, one plan
For a group of companies, we work through each entity on one plan.
Progress you can see
Every step, document and update in your secure client hub.
Fees agreed upfront
We agree the fee before we start, so there are no surprises.
Good law is fair law: fair to our clients, and fair to the people across the table.
Who you’ll work with
Your work is handled by an admitted attorney with experience in litigation, IT and IP law, and in-house legal and compliance for technology companies. You deal directly with the people doing the work, not a chain of hand-offs.
Meet our founderLet’s talk about your business.
Get in touch to discuss a monthly retainer, or a once-off matter.
