Buzz Legal handles the contracts, terms of trade, employment paperwork, unpaid invoices and disputes that come up while you are running a business. Every job is scoped and priced in writing before it starts.
Each area has its own fixed price, or a price for each stage, agreed in writing before work starts. Subscribers take 10% off any fixed-fee job.
A customer has sent over their own contract and wants it back signed. We read it and mark up the clauses that bite — liability, termination, payment, and what happens if it goes wrong.
from £249 +VATWhat this covers →
You are trading on terms copied off a website years ago, or on nothing written down. Your terms decide when you get paid and who carries the loss when something goes wrong.
from £695 +VATWhat this covers →
You are hiring, changing someone's terms, or having the conversation nobody wants to have. Contracts, handbooks and the paperwork that stands up if it is challenged.
from £895 +VATWhat this covers →
Sixty days late and they have stopped answering the phone. What you can prove, what the debt is worth with interest and compensation, and the letter the courts expect first.
Business Debt RecoverySee how it works →
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 tell you how strong it looks.
Priced per stageRead the guide →
Two owners, a handshake, and nothing written down about what happens if one of you stops turning up, wants out, or dies. Straightforward now, expensive to argue about later.
from £1,250 +VATWhat this covers →
The contract, the invoice or the employment problem itself, with the documents attached. Nothing is chargeable at this stage.
Whether it is work we can do, work for AD Solicitors, or a question for your accountant. You get that answer before any money is spent.
One fixed figure against a written scope. Nothing starts until you have approved both, and there is no clock running while you decide.
Delivered with a plain-English explanation of what each document does and how to use it.
The free legal healthcheck scores eight areas of your business in about five minutes and hands you a written list of what to fix and in what order. The report is yours to keep.
Already know what you need? Every fixed price sits side by side on the fixed-fee price list.
Companies House filings, PSC and confirmation statements, and restoring a company that has been struck off, are handled alongside the six above.
Buzz Legal handles the work that does not need a court. Court work, and the other activities reserved by law, are carried out by AD Solicitors, authorised and regulated by the SRA (no. 8011228) — and you are told which yours is before you spend anything. How this works, in full.
For everyday, non-reserved business legal work, yes. Contracts, terms, employment documents, handbooks, privacy notices, shareholder agreements, debt chasing and dispute preparation are handled by Buzz Legal directly. For reserved work, no. Conducting litigation, court advocacy, most conveyancing, probate, notarial work and administering oaths can only lawfully be done by an authorised firm. Those go to AD Solicitors, regulated by the SRA (no. 8011228). A solicitor is required for a narrow set of activities and optional for a wide one, and we cover the wide one at fixed prices.
Fixed-fee work has published starting prices: contract review from £249 +VAT, terms and conditions from £695 +VAT, employment starter pack from £895 +VAT, shareholder agreement from £1,250 +VAT, and HR policies with a staff handbook from £1,495 +VAT. Ongoing cover is £49, £249 or £499 +VAT a month depending on the plan. You get one fixed price for your job, in writing, before anything starts. If something falls outside the agreed scope, we stop and re-quote before doing it. For comparison, the hourly rates commonly quoted to small businesses for this kind of work run from £200 to £350 +VAT an hour.
Reserved activities, which go to AD Solicitors. Anything already contentious when it arrives: if the other side has instructed solicitors or threatened a claim, a contract review is the wrong job. ICO investigations, insolvency, conveyancing and property, immigration, criminal and personal matters. Formal company valuations and tax advice on share structures, which sit with an accountant or a tax specialist. Acting for an employee in a tribunal claim: on tribunals we defend employers. Acting for an employee where we already act for the employer. Acting as your appointed Data Protection Officer. Security or penetration testing.
It stops being non-reserved work and moves to AD Solicitors (SRA no. 8011228). The line is a threatened claim: a heated negotiation is still ours, a threatened claim is not. We handle the stage before proceedings, where a great many disputes settle: working out what you can prove, building the chronology, drafting a letter before action that follows pre-action conduct, and negotiating. Many matters end there. Where one has to escalate, the file goes to AD Solicitors with the evidence already assembled, so the regulated work starts from a prepared position. If a matter looks court-bound the day it lands, you hear that on day one.
Either. A fixed fee suits a defined job — one contract reviewed, one set of terms drafted, one handbook built — and you pay once. A subscription suits a business that keeps generating legal questions: £49 +VAT a month for the template library, a legal health check and questions on a fair-use basis, or £249 +VAT a month once you want human contract reviews and a monthly allowance of matters. As a rough test, if you ask legal questions more than a few times a year, the subscription usually costs less than the equivalent fixed fees. If it is one contract and then nothing for a year, pay the fixed fee.
Non-reserved work is done by the Buzz Legal team. Reserved legal work is done by Robert Festenstein, a solicitor at AD Solicitors, which is authorised and regulated by the SRA (no. 8011228). When he does it, he acts as a solicitor at that regulated firm and not as part of Buzz Legal Ltd. You are told which of the two is handling your matter before anything starts, in writing, alongside the scope and the price. Our About page sets out the regulatory position in full, including the protections you do and do not have. If you would prefer a solicitor to handle the whole thing from the start, say so and we will arrange it.
A contract review comes back within 5 working days. For other work, the timescale depends on the length and complexity of what you send, how many parties are negotiating, and the deadline you are working to. A staff handbook takes longer, because it is a set of policies working together. The drafting is quick; the time goes on waiting for answers about how your business operates. You get the expected timescale in writing before anything starts, and we tell you early if something is going to slip.
Our guides and articles are general legal information. They cannot be advice on your situation, because they do not know your facts. Advice comes once you engage us and we have the documents. Everything you send is handled under UK GDPR: enquiries are kept for up to 12 months, client files for typically six years after the relationship ends, and data is shared only where there is a real reason, such as handing a reserved matter to AD Solicitors. Legal professional privilege is a separate question from confidentiality. We cannot assume it applies to advice that does not come from a qualified lawyer, so raise it at the outset if it matters.
Our debt recovery service, and a trading style of Buzz Legal — the same people and the same position on who does what. It costs your debt live as you type, tells you which pre-action rules apply to your debtor, and prices every stage from the letter before action through to enforcement.
See how recovery works →Badger is our credit control software. It chases your overdue invoices for you and costs each one — statutory interest fixed at the right reference date, plus the compensation you are owed per invoice — then hands the file straight into formal recovery at published fixed fees if chasing does not work.
Tell us what has happened and what you want to happen about it. We will come back with what the job involves, who carries it out and what it costs, in writing, before you commit to anything.
