Contracts and agreements
A customer has sent over their own contract and wants it back signed. We read it in full and mark up the clauses that actually bite. From £249 +VAT.
Legal services
Legal work for the people who own and run the business
Contracts, terms of trade, employment paperwork and unpaid invoices — the jobs that come up while you are trying to trade. You are told the price in writing before anything starts.
Fixed prices
- Contract read in full and marked up — £249 +VAT
- Business terms and conditions — from £695 +VAT
- Employment starter pack — from £895 +VAT
- Shareholders’ agreement — from £1,250 +VAT
- Subscription from £49 a month
- Court work via RHF Solicitors (SRA 324115)
What owners come to us for
Six jobs, and what each one costs
Terms and policies
You are still trading on terms copied off a website years ago, or on nothing written down at all. Your terms decide who carries the loss. From £695 +VAT.
Employment and HR
You are hiring, changing someone's terms, or having the conversation nobody wants to have. Paperwork that stands up if it is challenged. From £895 +VAT.
Unpaid invoices
Sixty days late and they have stopped answering the phone. What you can actually prove, and the letter the courts expect you to send first.
Founders and shareholders
Two owners, a handshake, and nothing written down about what happens if one of you stops turning up. Cheap now, expensive later. From £1,250 +VAT.
Disputes and case prep
Something has gone wrong and you do not know whether you have a case. We build the chronology and say honestly how strong it looks. Priced per stage.
Who does what
Buzz Legal and RHF Solicitors
Handled by Buzz Legal
- Contract drafting and review
- Business terms and conditions, and website policies
- Employment contracts, handbooks and HR paperwork
- Shareholders' and partnership agreements
- Letters before action and pre-action correspondence
- Building the chronology and evidence for a dispute
Fixed prices, told to you in writing before anything starts.
Routed to RHF Solicitors
- Anything that goes to court
- Reserved legal activities, which only an authorised firm may carry out
- Litigation conduct and advocacy
- Insolvency work
You are told which yours is at the scoping stage, before you have spent anything.
Buzz Legal Ltd is not a firm of solicitors. That is stated plainly rather than buried, because the distinction decides who can do your matter and what protection applies to it.
The solicitor who handles reserved work
Robert Festenstein
Robert Festenstein has run his own firm, RHF Solicitors, since 2001. He practises in commercial litigation and insolvency, and since 2006 has held Higher Rights of Audience in civil proceedings, which means he can argue a case in the High Court himself rather than briefing a barrister to do it.
Most of what a business owner needs never goes near a courtroom, and that is the work done at a fixed price by Buzz Legal. When a matter does need a court, or anything else only an authorised firm may carry out, Robert takes it through RHF Solicitors — authorised and regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority, no. 324115.
Money you are owed
When an invoice has gone quiet
Business Debt Recovery
A trading style of Buzz Legal, so 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.
Badger, from £39 a month
Credit control software that chases your overdue invoices for you and costs each one properly — statutory interest fixed at the right reference date, plus the compensation you are entitled to per invoice. If chasing does not work it hands the file straight into formal recovery at published fixed fees.
Why fixed prices
And why terms and conditions earn their fee
Hourly billing makes you ration the phone call, and the calls people do not make are the expensive ones. A fixed price agreed in writing before the work starts means you ask the question while it is still cheap to answer.
Terms of trade are the clearest example. They decide when payment falls due, who carries the loss when something goes wrong, what happens on a cancellation and whether you can charge interest. A set of terms is a few hundred pounds once. The first dispute you lose because you did not have them is not.
Questions
What people ask about legal support
Is Buzz Legal a firm of solicitors?
No. Buzz Legal Ltd provides business legal services that are not reserved legal activities. Court work and anything else only an authorised firm may carry out is handled by RHF Solicitors, authorised and regulated by the SRA (no. 324115). You are told which yours is before you commit to anything.
What does it cost?
A contract read in full and marked up is £249 +VAT. Business terms and conditions are from £695 +VAT, an employment starter pack from £895 +VAT, and a shareholders' agreement from £1,250 +VAT. If it comes up more than once there is a subscription from £49 a month. Every price is confirmed in writing before work starts.
What if my matter turns into a dispute?
Then the chronology and the evidence are already built, which is most of what a solicitor would otherwise charge you to assemble. If it needs a court, it goes to RHF Solicitors, and you are told that at the scoping stage rather than three invoices in.
Can you work with my own solicitor?
Yes. Plenty of clients have a firm they use for property or for litigation and want the day-to-day commercial paperwork done at a fixed price instead of hourly.
Do I have to be a Buzz Accounting client?
No. Buzz Legal takes clients directly. Where we do both, the legal work already has the company's figures and structure behind it, which saves you explaining them.
You are chasing an invoice for me. What happens if they still do not pay?
It moves into formal recovery at published fixed fees, and the file goes across with the interest and compensation already costed at the right reference dates. Business Debt Recovery prices every stage through to enforcement before you commit to it.
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