This unique practise area enables medium sized companies to receive a personalised legal service without employing a full-time lawyer or recruiting an in-house legal department.
Our in-house lawyers combine the flexibility of a conventional law firm with the personal dedicated on-site attendance of an employed solicitor. Furthermore, they represent much better value than either option.
Keystone's in-house lawyers can work from your office, their satellite offices or, and most commonly, a combination of the two. Typically, attendance at your office takes place between one and three days per week and then on an hourly basis outside these days, if required. They will usually correspond with third parties using your stationary and email address and will, for all intents and purposes, be your own in-house lawyer(s).
We find our clients experience considerable advantages in working with a lawyer who gets to know them and their business well. Having a commercially astute lawyer working closely with your business at the start of any initiative often results in a quicker and more cost-effective implementation of the business plan. In-house lawyers have a better understanding of the business, its products and strategy and tend to free up the directors of the business to concentrate on the business aspects of the deal.
Other key commercial responsibilities include monitoring the company pension and insurance schemes, undertaking the company secretarial function and handling many property and general contract litigation matters, as well as advising on employment issues.
Keystone's in-house lawyers qualify as solicitors in private practise before spending at least 5 years working as in-house legal counsel for highly prestigious companies. They have access to all our usual support systems such as on-line precedents and knowledge databases as well as a £10 million professional indemnity insurance policy.
