Day to Day
Legal support, for the everyday
What It Is
Responsive, practical, plain English
Day to Day is reactive legal support for the issues that arise as your business operates. A contract to review before you sign. A supplier pushing back on terms. An employment question you need answered before a difficult conversation. A quick second opinion on something commercial.
There is no retainer. No ongoing commitment. You come to us when you need us, we handle the matter, and you get a clear output, written advice, a redlined document, or a short call, on the same or next day.
And if you arrived here searching for a contract solicitor or a contract lawyer: this is the same work, done by a consultancy rather than a law firm. We say so up front because it is a better model for exactly this kind of matter - senior review without the overhead, and a fixed fee instead of an hourly rate. One person in three years has needed a law firm instead.
Invoiced per matter, agreed upfront. No surprises.
What We Handle
Why would you need us?
Day to Day covers the legal work a growing business faces every week. Practical, commercial, delivered quickly. If a request falls outside scope or warrants more specialist input, we tell you before we start.
Contract review
A fast read of supplier, client or partner agreements with clear commentary, what's acceptable, what needs changing, and what to push back on.
Commercial advice
Practical guidance on the everyday legal questions that arise, payment terms, IP ownership, liability exposure, commercial relationships going sideways.
Document drafting
NDAs, simple commercial agreements, basic terms, drafted correctly and returned quickly. No template library; written for your situation.
Employment questions
Contractor vs employee status, a tricky leaver situation, a reference request you are unsure about. Straight answers without the referral chain.
Risk flags
A second pair of eyes before you sign, commit or respond. The kind of check that costs almost nothing and occasionally saves a great deal.
Compliance
The routine obligations that keep mounting up, checked and kept current, so nothing slips while you are busy running the business.
How It Works
How we work, everyday
No formal instruction process, no waiting weeks for a slot. Here is how a typical Day to Day request moves from your desk to resolved.
You send the question or document
Via email. No formal instruction form, no portal sign-up. Attach the contract, describe the situation, tell us what you need.
We confirm scope and fee
We come back the same day with what we will deliver and what it will cost. You approve before we start. No clock running in the background.
You get a clear output
Written advice, a redlined document, or a short call, whichever fits the nature of the question. Clear, actionable, plain English.
Full picture in hand
You have what you need to decide and move forward. No lingering uncertainty, no invoice you were not expecting.
Insured to advise across jurisdictions.
Your contracts rarely stop at one border. We are insured to advise on commercial agreements in jurisdictions around the world, so we can help wherever your business reaches.
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Send us your question.
We will take it from there.
No forms, no waiting for a callback slot. Email us the matter, and we will come back the same day with scope and fee. If it is not something we can handle, we will tell you and point you in the right direction.
Fees agreed upfront on every matter. No clock running until you confirm.
Day-to-day work, answered
What counts as day-to-day legal work?
The things which come up in the course of trading. A contract to review before signing, a set of terms to update, a supplier pushing an unfamiliar clause, a question about whether you can end an agreement early, an NDA in front of you this afternoon. Individually small, cumulatively the bulk of a growing business's legal needs.
How is day-to-day work priced?
Fixed fee wherever the scope allows, agreed before anything starts, because most day-to-day work is predictable enough to price properly. Where genuinely open-ended, hourly rates run from £250 to £450 plus VAT depending on seniority, and you will be told which applies and roughly what to expect before the work begins.
When does a retainer become better value than paying per job?
Roughly when you notice yourself deciding not to ask. If you are weighing up whether a question is worth an invoice, the questions stop being asked and the small problems grow. A retainer starts at £775 plus VAT a month and makes asking free, which is most of its value - the cost saving is a side effect.
Can you review something today?
Sometimes, and it depends what else is running. Tell me the deadline when you send it rather than after, and you will get an honest answer about whether it can be done properly in the time - not an optimistic one. If it cannot, I would rather say so than rush a review you are relying on.