Contracts pile up
Senior leaders end up reviewing paperwork instead of running the business.
In-House Legal Consultancy
In-house legal consultancy for growing UK businesses.
Adaptable Legal Counsel's in-house legal consultancy - fractional general counsel - serves UK businesses turning over £50m to £200m a year, on a monthly retainer instead of law firm hourly billing. A named lawyer works like part of your team: on call for contracts, governance and privacy questions, learning your business well enough to advise on commercial issues, not just legal ones.
Retained from £1,000 to £5,000 a month
50m to 200m pound revenue
Sussex & London
What you get
Named lawyer
One point of contact who knows your business.
Fast turnaround
Claude-assisted drafting keeps response times short.
Commercial input
Advice on strategy, not just clauses.
Fixed retainer
No surprise invoices at month end.
The problem this solves
Too big for ad hoc legal help, not ready for a full time hire.
Businesses turning over 50 million to 200 million pounds sit in an awkward gap. Contract volume is too high for founders or operations leads to manage safely, but a full time general counsel is a significant fixed cost to carry before it is truly needed.
Law firm fees are unpredictable
Hourly billing makes it hard to budget for legal support.
A full time hire is a big step
Salary, benefits and recruitment risk before the workload is proven.
Advice lacks business context
External lawyers who do not know your commercial strategy give generic answers.
Governance gets deferred
Board process and compliance discipline slip when nobody owns them.
Response times slow deals
Waiting days for external counsel costs revenue and credibility.
How it works
Legal counsel as a service.
We provide the same service as an internal legal counsel, delivered by an experienced lawyer and optimised with Claude, on a retainer of roughly £1,000 to £5,000 a month. You get the experience without the full overhead of an employee.
Map the workload
Understand contract volume, privacy exposure and governance gaps.
Set the retainer
Agree a monthly fee that matches your actual workload.
Get to work
Your named lawyer joins key calls, reviews contracts and gets to know your strategy.
Related support
Want your own team trained on Claude too?
In-house legal consultancy often runs alongside AI legal training, so your internal team keeps pace once the groundwork is in place.
Before choosing a retainer, read our guide to fractional legal counsel cost and scope.
Commonly used by marketing and events agencies, recruitment agencies, SaaS businesses and manufacturing businesses as their main legal relationship.
FAQs
In-house legal consultancy FAQ.
What does in-house legal consultancy include?+
It typically includes contract negotiation, privacy and governance support, ad hoc legal questions and strategic input, delivered by a named lawyer on a monthly retainer.
How is this cheaper than hiring in-house or using a law firm?+
You get experienced legal counsel without a salary, pension, benefits or office cost, and without paying law firm overhead, because Adaptable Legal Counsel operates as a consultancy rather than an LLP.
Who is this service designed for?+
Businesses turning over roughly 50 million to 200 million pounds with a high volume of contracts, who need senior legal judgement but are not ready for a full time hire.
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.