Deloitte
Early legal grounding in complex commercial and regulatory environments.
Who We Are
Qualified lawyers, an in-house operating style.
Adaptable Legal Counsel gives scaling businesses access to senior legal judgement that is commercial, pragmatic and operationally useful from day one. We were founded by Amy Kafetz to make that kind of support available without a law firm price tag or a premature full time hire.
Enterprise background: Deloitte, Panasonic, RELX
Sussex & London
What clients value
Commercial judgement
Advice that understands the pressure of running the business.
Embedded working style
Support that feels close to an internal legal function.
A fraction of law firm cost
A consultancy model, not a traditional LLP.
Optimised with Claude
Faster execution while human legal judgement stays central.
Where our experience comes from
Legal experience built inside complex businesses.
We are qualified, experienced lawyers. Our grounding comes from enterprise and in-house roles, which is why the advice stays commercial rather than theoretical.
Panasonic
In-house legal experience supporting operational and commercial decision-making.
RELX
Enterprise-scale commercial exposure with a strong focus on practical outcomes.
Today
We bring that experience into in-house legal consultancy for scaling businesses that need senior counsel without a full time hire.
Adaptable Legal Counsel was founded by Amy Kafetz, who leads the practice today. Read more on why Amy Kafetz founded Adaptable Legal Counsel.
How we work
Legal counsel as a service, not a one-off transaction.
We are qualified, experienced lawyers who get to know your business and strategise on legal and commercial issues together, the way an internal counsel would, optimised with Claude for speed and value.
Qualified, experienced lawyers on a consultancy model, not an LLP.
Retained from £1,000 to £5,000 a month
The experience of in-house counsel without the full overhead of an employee.
We learn your business
Strategic input on commercial issues, not just legal ones.
Sector experience
Events, professional services, recruitment and SaaS teams.
FAQs
About us FAQ.
What experience is Adaptable Legal Counsel built on?+
The practice is led by qualified, experienced lawyers and was founded by Amy Kafetz, whose background spans enterprise and in-house roles at Deloitte, Panasonic and RELX. That experience shapes how the whole practice works with scaling businesses.
What types of businesses does Adaptable Legal Counsel support?+
The practice supports businesses turning over roughly 50 million to 200 million pounds with a high volume of contracts, including marketing and events agencies, recruitment businesses, SaaS companies and manufacturing businesses.
Where are clients served?+
Clients are served on site across Sussex, remotely and on an ad hoc basis in London, and remotely across the rest of the UK.
Regulatory status
Important information about how our services are regulated
Adaptable Legal Counsel is an unregulated legal services business. It is not authorised or regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority.
No statement on this website should be read as saying that Adaptable Legal Counsel is authorised or regulated by the SRA. The regulatory status of any individual adviser will be confirmed separately where relevant before engagement.
We provide non-reserved legal services only. We do not conduct litigation, exercise rights of audience, carry out reserved conveyancing, probate or notarial work, administer oaths, provide immigration advice, claims management services or regulated financial services, or hold client money.
SRA compulsory minimum terms insurance and the SRA Compensation Fund do not apply to Adaptable Legal Counsel. Before engagement we explain our insurance arrangements, complaints process and any complaint routes that apply to the work.