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About Adroit Legal Solutions

A price agreed before the work starts, not an invoice that arrives afterwards.

  • Fixed fees agreed first
  • Direct access to the lawyer
  • Non-reserved legal services

Legal advice priced so that asking early is never the expensive option

Adroit Legal Solutions provides non-reserved legal services to owner-managed businesses, with fixed fees agreed in writing and one adviser throughout.

The question that costs nothing in March becomes the dispute that costs everything in September

Businesses usually seek legal help after the problem has already happened.

That is not recklessness. Owner-managed businesses operate under real financial and time pressure, and instructing a solicitor can mean an uncertain cost and a wait you cannot plan around. So the question that could have taken twenty minutes to answer in March becomes a dispute in September, and the advice that would have been cheapest to take early becomes the most expensive problem to solve late.

Adroit Legal Solutions was built to remove that barrier, because there was never a good reason for it to be there in the first place.

A green notebook and pen on a walnut boardroom table, the Gherkin beyond the window

Not a firm of solicitors, and deliberately so.

How we are different

We are not a firm of solicitors, and that is a deliberate choice rather than a limitation. We provide non-reserved legal services, and that structure lets us price differently: fixed fees for defined pieces of work, capped fees for projects, and monthly subscriptions for businesses that want to be able to pick up the phone without watching a clock.

Because we sit alongside Adroit Accountax, our sister business for tax and accountancy, the legal and the tax view of the same decision arrive in one conversation instead of two; whether that be a share issue, an employee structure, a contract, a sale.

When you need someone else

Where a matter requires a regulated provider, court proceedings, for example, we tell you plainly, and we work alongside the solicitors you instruct rather than pretending otherwise.

We would rather be the adviser who says “this one needs a litigator” than the adviser who takes the fee.

What you can expect

Every engagement, every time:

  • A price agreed before the work starts, not an invoice that arrives afterwards.
  • The same adviser from start to finish. You will not be passed down a chain, and you will not pay for anyone to learn your business.
  • A straight answer about whether you need us, including when the answer is no.
  • A reply to any enquiry within two working days.
  • Published thinking you can read before you ever speak to us. Our Insights section is the best guide to how we approach a problem.
Who we are for

Owner-managed businesses, and the decision in front of them

Founders, family companies and small boards who need commercial legal advice proportionate to the decision in front of them, priced so that asking the question early is never the expensive option.

Who we are

Adroit Legal Solutions was founded by Mahin Khawaja and Pravin Jugdaohsingh, who lead the business and its advisory work.

Mahin Khawaja

Co-founder

Leads the business and its advisory work.

Pravin Jugdaohsingh

Co-founder

Leads the business and its advisory work.

It starts with a conversation, not an engagement letter

It starts with a conversation, not an engagement letter

Every engagement begins with a free 20-minute scoping call. The purpose of that call is to establish what you actually need, whether we are the right people to do it, and what it should cost.

If we agree to proceed, the fee is fixed and confirmed in writing before any work starts. There is no hourly meter.

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Our regulatory position

Adroit Legal Solutions Limited is not a firm of solicitors and is not regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority. It does not undertake reserved legal activities as defined by the Legal Services Act 2007, and its services are limited to non-reserved legal services. Where a matter requires a regulated provider, we will say so, and we can work alongside solicitors instructed by you. Adroit Legal Solutions Limited holds professional indemnity insurance. Complaints should be made in the first instance under our internal complaints procedure, which is available on request.

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Speak to us

If you would like to talk something through, book a free 20-minute scoping call or email us. We respond to enquiries within two working days.

No commitment, no meter running.

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