Non-reserved business legal services
A contract to sign, an invoice nobody is paying, an employee with no written terms — that is the work we do, at a price agreed in writing before we start. A contract review is £249 +VAT. Anything that has to go to court goes to a regulated solicitor.
A customer has sent over their own contract and wants it back signed. We read it, mark up the clauses that actually bite — liability, termination, payment, what happens if it goes wrong — and tell you what to push back on. A review is a fixed £249 +VAT.
The invoice is sixty days late and they have stopped answering the phone. We work out what you can actually prove, then draft the letter before action the courts expect you to send before any claim is issued.
You are still trading on terms copied off a website years ago, or on nothing written down at all. Customer terms, supplier terms, website and privacy notices, and the clauses that decide who carries the loss when something goes wrong.
Something has gone wrong and you do not know whether you have a case. We build the chronology, sort out what the evidence supports, and say honestly how strong it looks — then hand a prepared file to RHF Solicitors if it needs a court.
You are hiring, changing someone's terms, or having the conversation nobody wants to have. Employment contracts, offer letters, staff handbooks and the paperwork that has to stand up if the person on the other side challenges it.
Two founders, a handshake and nothing written down about what happens if one of you stops turning up. Shareholder agreements, company housekeeping and the documents that are straightforward to write now and expensive to argue about later.
A contract review here is a fixed £249 +VAT. At the £200 to £350 +VAT an hour commonly quoted for this kind of work, £249 buys roughly an hour of a solicitor's time — long enough to read your contract, not to tell you what to do about it. The same £249 buys the finished job.
You get the scope and a single figure in writing first: what is included, what is not, and what you will receive. Nothing begins until you have agreed both. If something genuinely falls outside that scope, we stop and re-quote instead of adding it to the invoice. There is no clock running while you decide.
Buzz Legal Ltd is not a firm of solicitors and is not SRA-regulated, so our own work does not carry the SRA compensation fund or the Legal Ombudsman. Six activities are reserved by law, court work among them, and we do none of them. Those go to Robert Festenstein at RHF Solicitors, SRA no. 324115.
Not textbook cases — the legal jobs a business actually hits.
Court work, and five other activities, can only be done by a firm authorised to do it. Buzz Legal is not that firm and does not pretend to be. When a matter crosses that line, Robert takes it through RHF Solicitors, authorised and regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority. You are told at the scoping stage, before you have spent anything, and the preparation already done goes across with it rather than being paid for twice.
The contract, the invoice, the letter or the employment problem itself — not a description of it. Tell us what you want to happen and by when. Nothing is chargeable at this stage.
You get a straight answer on three things: whether this is work Buzz Legal can do or work that needs a regulated firm, who would be doing it, and what it will cost.
A fixed fee for a defined job, or a monthly plan if the questions keep coming. The scope, the figure and the delivery date go to you in writing, and nothing starts until you have agreed all three.
Reserved or contentious work goes to RHF Solicitors at rates confirmed before it starts, with the chronology and evidence already prepared — so you are not paying a regulated firm to read in from scratch.
No. Buzz Legal Ltd is not a firm of solicitors and is not regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority. We do non-reserved legal work, which is the large majority of what a business actually needs: contracts, terms and conditions, employment documents, staff handbooks, privacy notices, shareholder agreements, chasing unpaid invoices and getting a dispute organised. Six activities are reserved by law to authorised firms — running a court case, speaking in court, most conveyancing, probate, notarial work and administering oaths. We do none of them. When your matter needs one, it goes to RHF Solicitors, authorised and regulated by the SRA (no. 324115), and you are told that at the scoping stage before you have spent anything.
Fixed-fee work starts at £249 +VAT for a contract review, £695 +VAT for a set of business terms and conditions, £895 +VAT for an employment starter pack, £1,250 +VAT for a shareholder agreement and £1,495 +VAT for HR policies and a staff handbook. Subscriptions are £49, £249 or £499 +VAT a month. For comparison, at the £200 to £350 +VAT hourly rates commonly quoted for this kind of work, £249 buys between roughly 45 minutes and an hour and a quarter of a solicitor's time. Whichever route you take, the scope and the price go to you in writing before anything starts, and nothing begins until you have agreed both.
Anything reserved: conducting litigation, court advocacy, conveyancing, probate, notarial work and administering oaths. Anything already contentious when it reaches us — if the other side has instructed solicitors or threatened proceedings, that is a dispute, not a contract review. We also stay out of insolvency, immigration, criminal and personal matters, we do not give tax or financial advice, and we will not act for both sides of the same disagreement. None of that is a dead end. We tell you who should handle it and, for reserved work, hand it to RHF Solicitors rather than stretch what we do.
It moves. The moment a matter is contentious — the other side has instructed solicitors, threatened a claim or issued proceedings — it stops being non-reserved work and goes to RHF Solicitors (SRA no. 324115). You hear that as soon as we see it, usually at the scoping stage before you have committed to anything. What we do first is the groundwork: triage, chronology, gathering evidence and drafting the letter before action, which settles a good number of matters without proceedings. Where one does escalate, the prepared file goes with it, so you are not paying twice for the same background.
Because we carry less regulatory cost and we do a narrower range of work. An SRA-regulated firm funds compulsory professional indemnity arrangements, contributions to the compensation fund, a client account and the compliance reporting that goes with all of it. We fund none of that, because we do not do reserved work or handle client money. We also quote a fixed price against a written scope rather than running a clock. Be clear about the trade-off: those protections exist for clients, and you do not get them on our own work. Where the stakes justify them, the matter should go to a regulated firm, and we will say so.
Partly, and you should know exactly where the line falls. Because Buzz Legal Ltd is not SRA-regulated, our own work does not carry the SRA compensation fund, and a complaint about it cannot be taken to the Legal Ombudsman. What you do get is a published complaints procedure: acknowledgement within five working days, a substantive response within twenty working days, and a review by a senior person who was not involved if that does not resolve it. Anything carried out by RHF Solicitors sits under full SRA regulation. If the complaint is about how we have handled your data, you can go straight to the ICO on 0303 123 1113.
Yes, as a matter of contract and of data protection law. Enquiry details, documents and correspondence are held under UK GDPR: general enquiries for up to 12 months, prospective client records for up to 24 months, and client files for typically six years after the relationship ends. Data is shared only where there is a real reason, such as passing a reserved matter to RHF Solicitors. This website sets no cookies and runs no analytics. One thing worth naming: legal professional privilege is a separate question from confidentiality, and it is not something we can assume applies to advice that does not come from a qualified lawyer, so if privilege matters, say so at the outset.
Yes, and it is usually the point. Buzz Legal sits alongside Buzz Accounting and Buzz Financial Services, and we work with whoever already advises you. It matters because the legal and tax answers rarely separate cleanly: a shareholder agreement has tax consequences in its leaver provisions, an employment contract runs straight into payroll and pension duties, and whether someone is a contractor is a legal question and a tax question at the same time. We do not give tax advice — that is your accountant's job — but we will tell you when a document you are about to sign needs one of them to look at it first.
Clear scope · fixed fees available. Buzz Legal Ltd is not a firm of solicitors and is not regulated by the SRA.