All LawBite document templates are drafted in house by individually regulated lawyers, are written in plain English and are as short as they can be. This makes them easy to understand and user friendly for you and the people/companies you deal with whilst still covering the things that are most important to your business. 

You are free to download and edit the documents you have access to on the LawBite platform for your own use, but you are solely responsible for the appropriate use and editing of the documents that you buy from us. Our lawyers are always happy to review your edited documents and you can enter a legal enquiry into our portal if you wish to access this service. You are not allowed to resell these document templates online or elsewhere. 

If you already have a ‘live’ enquiry on our system and you wish to upload a document in relation to that matter (be it supporting documentation or a document you would like our lawyers to review for you) then you can upload this by navigating to the file either from the Dashboard or My Legal Advice page and then using the ‘Choose file’ option in the ‘Reply to Message’ box.

 

If you would like to upload a document for checking and you do not currently have a ‘live’ enquiry relating to this matter, please create a new enquiry using the blue form on our Contract Checking page.

 

If you would like to upload a document for editing and collaboration within the LawBite platform and/or e-signing then you can use the button on the Dashboard and in the logged in navigation menu. This service is only available to users with a live subscription. You can upload Word (.doc or .docx) or PDF documents, although the editing and collaboration tools are currently only available for Word Documents. PDFs can still be e-signed and submitted for review from the Master Template/Uploaded Document page.

 

Clicking this button allows you to complete a form and upload your document. This creates a ‘Master uploaded document’ in our system and you will then find the options to create and edit an ‘instance’ of that document (Word documents only) or submit it for e-signing on the right side of the Master Template/Uploaded Document page.

 

For more information on creating instances of a master template please see “How do I create multiple contract versions (Instances) from a master template”.

 

For more information on how e-signing works within LawBite please see “How does e-signing work within LawBite?”

All LawBite document templates are listed on our Legal Documents page. To search for a specific document, you can start typing a word in the search bar and hopefully the document you are looking for will appear as one of the options. Alternatively you can use the ‘Category’ dropdown menu and search by legal category to narrow down your search.

 

If you can’t find the document you are looking for you can contact us stating your requirements. If we do not currently have the specific template you are after on the site, then it is likely that one of the lawyers we use will still be able to help you by providing a fixed fee quote to produce a ‘bespoke’ document for you. This tailored service is also available at any time for any document template we do have, and could end up saving you and your business valuable time.

 

Once you have located the template you need, you can download this from the document product page by either signing up for one of our subscription packages, or joining our free Essentials plan.

 

Once you have downloaded a document it will appear in your Dashboard and in your My Documents area (as a blue icon) from where you can then select to view and edit the document, taking you through to the document editing page. You can download all our documents as many times as you like so long as you have a valid subscription.

 

Once a subscription has expired, the documents you have previously downloaded will remain in your account and you will still have access to view and download these documents. However, all editing, sharing, version comparison, commenting and e-signing tools will be disabled until such a time as you activate a new subscription.

Every effort has been made to ensure that LawBite documents are written in plain English and are as short as they can be. This makes our documents easy to understand and user friendly both for you and the people you deal with whilst still covering the things that are most important to your business.

LawBite is an online legal platform that makes it easier for SMEs to get the law that they need: faster and cheaper.

We do this through individually regulated lawyers that sit on our platform that are matched to your needs at half the price or less of a traditional high street lawyer.

Our powerful technology platform connects you to the lawyers with easy-to-use software tools and all the legal documents you need to take you from the start of your SME adventure and help you prosper.

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 the experienced lawyers we use. 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 we do, but we’ll always try to locate the most cost effective option available.

Neither. All lawyers we use are individually regulated and selected very carefully. We fully induct them in the way that the Platform works and our ethos. They are all empathetic to SME’s, communicate in plain English, work fast and only work with our pricing structure. We want you to feel like you do when you are dealing with a brand that you trust. The experience of working with the Lawyers we use will be a consistent one stamped with our own unique house-style AND they communicate with each other through our intranet so you won’t have to explain what your company does every time you come back with a new enquiry.

We deal with all aspects of SME law, including:

We also provide help with disputes, whether you want to bring or defend a claim, or whether you want to resolve it through mediation or arbitration.

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.

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.

LawBite doesn’t carry any of the substantial overhead of a law firm. No partnership structure that you have to pay for (whether they do your work or not). No big building with marble hallways and mahogany desks. No big overhead. We pass all of those savings on to our customers. LawBite also uses best of breed technology tools, easy to use documents and plain English communication to speed up the process of delivering your legal solutions and saving you time.

LawBite is modern law for business. We are on a mission to revolutionise how SMEs get the expert law they need - easier to access, clearer to understand and much more affordable.

We aim to respond to all legal enquiries within 2 working hours. You will initially be contacted by one of our administrators. They work Monday to Friday from 9 am to 6pm. These are trained paralegals who will speak with you, take some details, and make sure we have understood your issue completely.  They will then match you with the right LawBrief, who will be expertly qualified to deal with your issue. 

You can then arrange a free initial call with your designated lawyer at a time to suit you, receive an acknowledgement from one of the LawBriefs to say that your enquiry is being reviewed, along with a quotation (where appropriate) and an estimate of the length of time (and associated cost) it will take to resolve your enquiry.

Alternative Dispute Resolution – i.e. alternative methods of resolving conflicts which are different to standard court proceedings or ‘litigation’. Mediation and Arbitration are both kinds of ADR.

 

Mediation is much quicker than going to court and is successful 75% of the time, saving you time and money. It involves appointing a trained mediator as a neutral to help facilitate a settlement of a dispute between the parties. The whole process is confidential, normally take no longer than one day, and you always have the choice as to whether or not you settle. Arbitration is a non-court procedure where an industry expert, agreed by the parties, judges their issue for them. 

The arbitrator can set up a process which is more streamlined than that available through the courts. The parties are bound by the arbitrator’s judgement but they have the comfort of knowing that the outcome will be decided by an expert who understands their business.

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.

 

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

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.

We have a range of pricing for different products, all of which are provided on a fixed price basis, so there are no nasty surprises with the billing. These include:

Simply visit our Pricing page and select a subscription package to view more details about that service. Once you have decided which service best suits your business, you can then proceed by completing our subscription form. This contains all the necessary information to set you up with subscription account and once completed will take you through to the basket page to review your order.

 

Some subscription services give the option of monthly or annual billing which you can then select to take you through to the Process Payment page. Here you can then read and accept our subscription Terms and Conditions before entering your credit card details to process your payment and complete the sign up process.

 

A copy of these Ts&Cs (along with your subscription payment invoices) will then be stored in your My Account area for easy access.

 

At any time, you can contact us or call us on 020 38088314 to speak to a member of the team about our subscription services in more detail.

You can use the form on the Contact us page of the site or email [email protected] to contact our customer services team. A senior member of the team will respond to you personally within 24hrs. We receive very few complaints but we take them all extremely seriously. It is our mission to ensure that no customer ever goes away from our service feeling dissatisfied.

Our hope is that you use LawBite to help protect your business as much as possible, but we understand that disputes are an inevitable part of running any company. We offer help with a wide range of dispute resolution services, from making and defending a claim (e.g. letter writing) to Alternative Dispute Resolution and even litigation.

It's unlikely that your LawBrief will be able to review all documentation and information relating to a situation within the initial 15 minute consultation period. If you're looking for direction on the strength of your case, there will usually be a fee associated with this service (and any follow up steps, e.g. letter drafting).

For disputes under a value of £10,000, you may therefore find it more worthwhile consulting the Citizens Advice website where there is some useful information on the Small Claims process.

Yes, LawBite provides access to a panel of experienced Mediators and Arbitrators. To find out more book a free 15 minute consultation to discuss your case.

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’.

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.

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

LawBite and the individually regulated lawyers we utilise 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).