Legal advice process

A faster and more affordable legal service

LawBite combines the power of technology with legal expertise to give you an all-one solution for your legal work. Through our secure platform and app, we’re helping remove the complexity and uncertainty when engaging with a lawyer whilst reducing the cost of the expert legal advice businesses need to grow and succeed.

We aim to create a fairer system for businesses where they are better served and appreciated. We want to make business law:

Easier to access
Clearer to understand
Much more affordable

Enhancing your legal experience

Gone are the days of tediously managing legal matters. Using the latest technology, we’ve improved the client-lawyer experience, unlocking efficiencies that bring you a faster, more transparent and admin-lite legal service.

With LawBite, you can organise all your legal work in one location, keep track of your matters and receive exceptional service from our extensive network of experienced legal professionals.

Compared to traditional law firms, we’re:

Faster – speak to a lawyer either the same or the next working day
More transparent – receive a digital audit trail of every exchange you have
Admin-lite – we’ll always keep you in the know about your case and identify any blockers
More affordable – we’re upto 50% of the cost of comparable law firms

Your trusted legal partner

We set ourselves apart from most digital legal service providers by having our own law firm on the platform (LawBriefs). Our team of LawBriefs lawyers boasts an impressive average of 10+ years of post-qualification experience, and come from working across a diverse range of industries and private practices.

With this unique setup, we take full accountability for your legal work, providing you with added assurance and peace of mind. What's more, we’re fully insured and regulated by the SRA (Solicitors Regulatory Authority).

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Frequently asked questions

LawBite is the modern way for SMEs to get the high quality legal advice they need, but faster and cheaper.

As we look to revolutionise the traditional legal process, this may raise a number of questions on how we operate to provide your business with legal advice for your business that is; easier to access, clearer to understand and more affordable.

We have brought together the most frequently asked questions from our customers.

How do I pay for a legal advice quote?

Once you have been quoted by your lawyer, you will receive a notification to check your messages within your dashboard. You can then click on the ‘Pay Fee’ button to add the item to your basket (it will display as “Quoted legal work”).

You can then follow the instructions in the basket pay via debit or credit card (via the Stripe payment mechanism) according to the instructions found on the “Process Payment” page.

If for some reason this is not appropriate, we can also accept credit card payments over the phone or direct BACS transfers from your bank account. We will issue an invoice to you prior to arranging such an alternative payment method.

How do I receive a legal advice quote?

For any piece of work we do you will always receive an upfront quote through the platform from the lawyer you have spoken to. If you have chosen an existing fixed price product (e.g. contract review) then the quote will reflect the fixed price for that product. If you need a service for which we need to create a bespoke quote for you then the quote will still be for a fixed price, but it will be given based on the number of hours the lawyer expects that piece of work to take.

If less time is spent than quoted, we will only charge for the actual time worked.

Work will not be carried out for you until you have accepted a quote through the site. If you accept such a quote you will not be charged any further sums over and above what has been quoted, unless we re-quote you for extra work through the site and you accept this re-quote.

Any quote or re-quote will not normally include any extra expenses other than the hourly rates plus VAT set out above, but if we do incur any genuine third party expenses on your behalf which you need to pay for (such as fees for a barrister) these will be specified in your quote (or re-quote) or in a separate quote for ‘disbursements’.

Can I really speak to a lawyer for free?

Yes, here at LawBite we believe in helping all small businesses and we offer all new customers a free 15 minute consultation with one of our lawyers (we call them LawBriefs). We will do everything we can to make sure your call is the same or next working day. Our promise to you is that by the end of the initial call you will have a clear idea of the options available to you to progress your legal matter.

On the rare occasion that we cannot locate a specialist to assist your specific needs we will always do our best to put you in touch with one of our partner law firms. We can’t promise that they’ll have the same rates as the LawBriefs, but we’ll always try to locate the most cost effective option available.

How do I create a legal enquiry?

Just book a free 15 minute consultation with one of our lawyers. You can also call us on 020 3808 8314.

What happens if one of my 'counter-parties' also seeks negotiation advice from you?

LawBite and LawBriefs will always treat every enquiry on an individual and confidential basis. However, we have a fully developed conflicts policy and to ensure there is no conflict of interests between parties, we are only able to represent one party in a contract negotiation (on a first come, first served basis).

Can I get help with the negotiation of my contract terms?

Yes, we have negotiating experts on hand to help with all aspects of your contract negotiations (whether LawBite documents or otherwise). You should make your enquiry via the Negotiation page and include as much supporting information as possible in order to help our experts deal with your issue/s as quickly and effectively as possible.

How can I get a legal health check for my company?

We provide a number of different kinds of Legal Health Check to give you peace of mind about your business.

Firstly, we have a free automated Legal Health Checks. By answering the questions here, you will receive an immediate report, highlighting any areas of immediate concern in your business. You can have that report analysed by one of the LawBriefs and receive personal feedback on it for free if you are a Growth subscriber.

In addition, we offer a full day audit of your business at a suitable location. This is followed by a full report with detailed analysis and recommendations for you to consider, to be delivered within 3 working days of the Health Check. This costs £995 + VAT

How do I have a contract checked/reviewed?

Whether you have edited a LawBite template, have been given a contract by someone else, or have obtained a contract yourself from another source, you can take advantage of our great fixed price contract checking service by following these steps:

1. Visit our Contract Checking Page

2. Complete the form, uploading your contract for review (Word format is preferable to allow the specialist lawyers accessible through our Platform (‘LawBriefs’) to make in line comments but we will also accept PDF documents)

3. Enter your aims and concerns for the contract review, giving as much information as possible. Our lawyer will call you or send you a message on the platform ahead of issuing a quote in order to clarify your requirements, but it helps us if we can get as clear a picture as possible ahead of this.

4. That’s it! We’ll be in touch within a couple of hours to confirm that your contract has been received and referred to the lawyers (specialist LawBriefs) who will be in touch shortly after that to send you a fixed fee quote according to the length of the document and the turnaround time you require.

5. If you are working on a LawBite template within the document editing page, you can skip the first two steps by clicking on the orange “Request Lawyer Review” button and following the on screen instructions to submit your document for review.

*Please note that our contract review service only includes comments and basic drafting revisions/suggestions. Any significant drafting work required will be quoted in addition to our fixed fee contract review prices. Your lawyer will advise on any potential additional charges once they have received and read through the contract and your comments.

I’ve got legal advice credit displaying on my Dashboard and in my Basket – how do I use that to pay for quotes?

If you have purchased legal advice or contract review credits in the basket area, or if you have credit as a result of your subscription to one of our packages, you can use this credit to pay for quotes from lawyers. In order to do this, please follow the same steps as outlined in the ‘How do I pay for legal advice quotes section?’ to add the ‘Quoted legal advice’ item to your basket. If you have credit available to you, this will appear as a monetary value in your basket area.

In order to use this credit you can then click on the ‘Use Credit’ blue button in the basket followed by ‘Process Payment’. On the next screen, once you have read and accepted any relevant Ts&Cs, you can click on ‘Continue purchase’. The transaction should be processed without any further payment necessary and your legal enquiry will be updated to ‘Paid’ status. Your lawyer will be notified immediately that you have made your payment and will be in touch to discuss timescales for completion of your work (if this has not already been agreed).

If the credit amount isn’t enough to cover the whole quote, you can still use the credit for part payment, you will just have to pay for the balance using a credit card.

Note that the number of credit hours listed on your Dashboard will correspond to the hourly rate for your account type for standard legal work. If you require fast turnaround work, fixed fee services or specialist/barrister work then the appropriate amount will be deducted from your balance and this may not correspond directly to the number of hours quoted by your lawyer.

How can I upload a document for a lawyer to look at or review?

You can either do this through one of our enquiry forms when you make your enquiry or, if your enquiry is already active you can use the attachments feature in the ‘Reply to Message’ pop-up box on the legal enquiry messaging page. Just attach the file as if you were attaching something to an email. If you have multiple files to attach, please add them to a zip file and then upload that one zip file to avoid having to send multiple messages. We accept the following file types: doc, docx, pdf, xlsx, pdf, jpg, tif, png and zip up to a maximum size of 20MB. If you want to send a document to your lawyer, please do not use the the ‘Upload a document for editing and e-signing’ feature as this will only add the document to your own personal document storage space (My Documents) and the lawyer will not be able to view this.