Do You Need a Big or a Small Firm?

Generalist or Specialist?

What type of solicitor and size firm is right for you?

Who are we? The team at Truelegal is a happy blend of generalist-specialist solicitors, lawyers with experience of running their own businesses. Commercial and entrepreneurial business people, but with legal training and qualifications.

Truelegal’s lawyers aspire to give balanced advice, that’s to say: specialist business legal advice without losing sight of the bigger picture. If one can be critical of mainstream law firms too often the over-specialisation of their lawyers means that the lawyer’s advice misses the obvious commercial angle having immersed him or herself in the detail and not communicated with other specialists in the firm. And we haven’t even talked about the departmental “turf wars”…

We’ve heard it said that:

“A generalist is one who knows less and less about more and more, until he knows nothing about everything…

A specialist is one who knows more and more about less and less, until he knows everything about nothing.”

As a commercial legal practice to entrepreneurs and business owners Truelegal offers advice and commercial solutions in the following areas of business law:

• commercial (eg contracts, intellectual property, supply, distribution and agency agreements)
• commercial property: commercial leases (including lease assignments, lease surrenders) and freehold
• corporate (eg buying and selling companies, mergers, acquisitions, disposals, joint ventures, restructuring, due diligence)
• business start ups/business migration/path to IPO (eg company formation, company secretarial, shareholder agreements, share options)
• internet, web and e-law (eg website terms and conditions, branding, hosting, licensing, partnering, e-commerce, staff email policy, data protection/privacy, payment gateway, security)
• employment/consultancy/contractor law

Have you found the area of commercial law you were looking for? No law firm can (should?) specialise in every subject. The above are examples. If we cannot advise you directly, we will find you a suitable expert, manage your relationship with that firm and ensure that any language and cultural barriers are broken down.

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