who we work with.

We act as outside legal counsel for small to medium-sized businesses and scale ups, looking for a relationship for the long-term.

We typically work with:

Founders

  • who engage 20+ employees

  • have an annual turnover of between $2M -$5M+

In-house counsel + small legal teams

  • including GCs, solo legal counsel and small legal teams

  • who engage 100+ employees

  • have an annual turnover of $20M+

There’s no one size-fits all, but having aligned values (human-to-human) is critical.

Think we might be a good fit?

we offer legal support in commercial law + compliance and employment law + HR

Our typical clients are:

  • Software and tech companies

  • Consultancies and managed service providers

  • Digital platform providers

  • Professional services firms

  • Disability service providers

founders + CEOs.

  • You have quietly gone about your business, going from strength to strength.

    You punch well above your weight.

    You have dealt with lawyers on and off over the years, but quite frankly, it’s been all too hard (or costly), so you don’t know who to turn to - and really, you’ve managed to get by without too much of their input.

    Now though, you’re experiencing growing pains. And while you don’t need a lawyer in-house full-time, you do need the insight of  in-house counsel (without the overhead). 

    You’re looking for a special kind of lawyer.

    Someone who knows you’re running pretty low on time (and maybe energy). 

    Someone who gets ‘it’ and gets ‘you’ so can pick up where you left off or ask a ‘quick question’. 

    Someone who is a good sounding board, helps you make up your own mind about the associated risks, and doesn’t overcomplicate things.

    Enter: in house nous.

HR leaders.

  • Your people are the lifeblood of your business, just as much as your clients are.

    You get that and you wish more people did too. It would save you a lot of headaches.

    You want to reduce how much of your day is spent reacting to spot fires by proactively supporting leaders and managers to drive performance and empower staff to bring their best selves to work.

    Perhaps you’re a sole HR practitioner and simply don’t have the capacity (or energy) to deal with everything.

    Maybe it’s a matter that’s particularly complex, or been escalated, and you’d love someone to act as a sounding board (so you can protect the business from itself).

    Enter: in house nous.

in-house counsel + legal teams.

  • You are a sole legal counsel, GC or work in a small in-house legal team.

    You are expected to do more with less.

    You need some help lightening the load and you need it like, yesterday.

    You need day-to-day support for when it’s coming in thick and fast. You might have a graduate or junior on board, but you’re stretched too thin to nurture them the way you’d love to and just need to delegate it to someone who will just get it done, and has the nous of having worked in-house, so you can trust they actually get ‘it’ (see what we did there).

    You have got a bevy of private practice lawyers you use on and off, but they just don’t get it. You are tired of getting letters of advice outside the scope you asked for (with the associated price tag), that sit on the fence (didn’t you pay for a recommendation?), or that turn you into a bottleneck because you’ve got to find the energy to translate it for your audience.

    Bullet points anyone?

    You know you can’t be all things to all people. You wear enough hats as it is. And let’s be real – less is not more.

    Enter: in house nous, where we are lawyers who have walked a mile in your shoes and know that no two days in-house are the same, nor are any two in-house teams.

    Run by lawyers like you, for lawyers like you.

    Let us help lighten that load, pronto.

  • pricing clarity at every step

  • a relationship for the long term

  • peace of mind by adding to your brains trust

We are for you if:

  • you want ‘lawyers for life’ (that is, a relationship for the long term)

  • you are looking for lawyers to act as an extension to your in-house legal team (or in lieu of, if you don’t have one)

  • you are happy for us to ‘lift the hood’ and understand your business from the inside out

  • you want cost-effective legal expertise (without the overhead of engaging an employee)