A free review of where your business stands across contracts, employment, data protection, intellectual property and four other areas, then a fixed price for each gap you decide to close.
A business legal review checks whether the documents, registrations and processes your business depends on exist, are current and say what you need them to. It looks at the business as a whole: how it is set up and owned, what it signs, how it employs people, what personal data it holds, what it owns, its premises and insurance, how it collects debts and handles disputes, and whether it holds the licences its sector needs.
Ours starts with the free legal healthcheck: thirty-five questions you answer yourself in about eight minutes. It returns a score out of 100, a red, amber or green rating for each of eight areas, and your gaps in priority order, with what each one is and what closing it involves. You then book a free debrief call and go through the result with us.
Where a gap needs work, each piece of work has a fixed price agreed in writing before it starts. Where a gap is something you can close yourself, such as paying the ICO fee or putting a complaints process in writing, the call ends with that on your list and no charge.
A review helps most just before a change: a first employee, a new shareholder or one leaving, a move into selling to consumers, signing a lease, or a contract larger than any the business has signed before. It also helps after a dispute, to check whether the same gap is still open, and once a year, because a business that has grown since its documents were written can be running on terms that no longer describe it.
Each area is scored separately, so the report shows which one to deal with first.
Whether the business is incorporated, whether the owners have a signed shareholders’ or partnership agreement, whether Companies House records are current, and what happens if an owner dies or leaves.
Whether you sell on your own written terms, shown to the customer before the deal is struck, with a liability cap and a right to charge late-payment interest, and whether anyone reads supplier terms before you accept them.
Day-one written statements, a disciplinary and grievance procedure staff can read, pension auto-enrolment, right to work checks, contractor status, and reasonable steps to prevent sexual harassment.
ICO registration and the data protection fee, a privacy notice written for your business, agreements with suppliers who handle personal data, and whether you could answer a subject access request within one month.
A registered trade mark for your name, a written assignment from the freelancer who made your logo, website or software, and confidentiality obligations covering your customer lists.
The repair, break and dilapidations clauses in your lease, employers’ liability cover with the certificate available to staff, and public liability and professional indemnity cover for what the business does now.
Whether you could prove your largest unpaid invoice today, a written process for chasing, statutory interest and compensation on late business invoices, and any live or threatened dispute.
The licences and registrations your sector requires, anti-money-laundering supervision where it applies, consumer terms that meet the Consumer Rights Act 2015, and a written complaints process.
About five minutes. Answer “not sure” where you are not sure; it counts as a gap.
A free debrief call on your report: which gaps matter for your business, and which can wait.
Each piece of work priced in writing before it starts. You choose what to do, and when.
These are the fixes a review most often leads to, each priced in writing before it starts. Subscribers get 10% off every one.
One commercial contract read in full and marked up, back in five working days.
One set of terms written for how you sell.
Employment contracts, the day-one statement and the documents for a hire.
Sets out what happens to the shares when an owner leaves, stops working or dies.
The policies, and the disciplinary and grievance procedures.
The healthcheck kept current, templates, document storage with reminders, and questions answered.
Illustrative figures. A design studio has four staff and two directors who each own half the company. Its healthcheck comes back with three areas in red: no shareholders’ agreement, a logo and website made by a freelancer with no written assignment of copyright, and two members of staff who have never had a written statement.
On the debrief call the shareholders’ agreement goes first, because it decides what happens to a director’s half of the company if they leave or die. It is from £1,250 +VAT. The employment starter pack puts both members of staff on proper contracts, from £895 +VAT. The copyright assignment from the freelancer is a short document, priced in writing before it starts. The two priced jobs come to £2,145 +VAT, or £1,930.50 +VAT for a subscriber, and the studio knew both figures before agreeing to either.
The Buzz Legal team. Reviewing a business’s legal position, and the documents that close the gaps, are non-reserved work, which is why they can be priced as ordinary jobs. Buzz Legal Ltd is a legal services firm, so our own work does not carry the SRA compensation fund or the Legal Ombudsman. Where a gap needs an authorised firm, such as a live court claim, it goes to AD Solicitors (SRA no. 8011228), and the report and the call both say so.
The healthcheck gives general legal information generated from your answers, not advice on your situation. A questionnaire can tell whether a document exists; reading the document itself is part of the paid work that follows.
A check of whether your business holds the legal documents, registrations and processes it needs, and whether they are current. Ours covers eight areas: structure, contracts, employment, data protection, intellectual property, property and insurance, disputes and debt, and regulatory. It starts with the free legal healthcheck and a free debrief call, and any work that follows is priced in writing before it starts.
The healthcheck and the debrief call are free. Fixing what they find is priced per job: a contract review is £249 +VAT, business terms and conditions from £695 +VAT, the employment starter pack from £895 +VAT, a shareholder agreement from £1,250 +VAT, and HR policies with a staff handbook from £1,495 +VAT. Subscribers get 10% off each one.
The healthcheck works from your answers, so it can tell you a document is missing but not whether the one you hold does its job. On the debrief call we agree which documents to read. A single contract is read and marked up for £249 +VAT, with the marked-up copy back in five working days. A larger set of documents is priced in writing before we start.
Once a year, and whenever something changes: a first employee, a new shareholder, a move into selling to consumers, new premises or a contract larger than usual. The healthcheck can be taken again at any time. Legal Foundations at £49 +VAT a month includes it, with reminders on your stored documents.
The Buzz Legal team. Reviewing a business’s legal position is non-reserved work under the Legal Services Act 2007. Buzz Legal Ltd is a legal services firm. Where a gap needs an authorised firm, it goes to AD Solicitors, SRA no. 8011228, and you are told before you spend anything.
Tell us what the business does, the size of the team and the legal question on your mind. You get back the next step and, where there is work to do, a fixed price before anything starts. See the privacy policy for how we use your details.
Thirty-five questions, a score out of 100 and your gaps in priority order, then a free debrief call.
