Retainer packages
Forget expensive unpredictability… get what you need, when you need it, for a clear cost!
Monthly retainer options
On a monthly fixed-fee basis, I can provide the following capacity guarantees for clients at a substantially discounted rate:
🥉 ‘Bronze’ retainer. 0.5 day per week. £1,995 plus VAT per month.
🥈 ‘Silver’ retainer. 1 day per week. £3,995 plus VAT per month.
🥇 ‘Gold’ retainer. 2 days per week. £6,995 plus VAT per month.
Whether you need a fractional General Counsel, or a senior tech lawyer as an extra pair of hands to manage customer, supplier, and/or collaboration contracts, this provides you with certainty of cost and reserved time in my diary each week!
Purchasing one of these retainers also has the benefit of locking in a preferential hourly rate for ad hoc additional work of **£150 plus VAT**. This is a substantial discount on my standard hourly rate of £250 plus VAT, and very substantially less than partner rates in private practice law firms (in many instances now being £500-700+ plus VAT).
What constitutes 1 or 2 days could be a number of half-days spread over the week - at times mutually agreed for maximum benefit to the client.
Quick-Access retainer *** £995 plus VAT per month ***
What you get:
Up to 2 hours per week (= up to c. 8 hours total per month) of quick, light-touch legal support (phone, email, Teams).
Day-to-day access to my expertise as a senior tech lawyer for quick turnaround responses to routine and ‘light-touch’ legal questions.
Light ‘red-flag’ reviews of short contracts or basic terms (e.g., NDAs).
Minor drafting / mark-ups.
General advice on commercial, IP, and data protection matters.
A preferential hourly rate of **£200 plus VAT** for work exceeding the 2-hours per week / light-touch threshold (e.g., reviewing, drafting, or marking up a substantial contract).
Any work beyond the light-touch scope will be flagged and only started with your approval at the preferential rate. I will always be able to provide an estimate of time upfront, and keep you updated of progress against this.
The packages described above are designed to be budget-friendly and predictable, with flexibility built in. They provide you with guaranteed access and capacity reservation (so unused time is not carried forward). My aim is always to support you in a pragmatic, flexible, and cost-effective way. Please click on the button below to email me to arrange a call to discuss further!