Fractional Legal Counsel: Flexible, Scalable Support for UK Businesses
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I’m Amy Kafetz, a qualified commercial solicitor
providing flexible, cost-effective legal support
to growing businesses, busy Executives and existing legal teams across the UK.
Think of me as your in-house counsel on call available on a
day rate, retainer or project basis.
No. AK Legal Services is an unregulated legal consultancy operated by AK Legal Services Ltd. While I’m a qualified solicitor, the company itself is not authorised or regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA). That means we purposefully do not undertake “reserved legal activities” (see question 3) that require SRA regulation.
We focus on commercial, non-contentious work for growing businesses:
We do not carry out any work that English law reserves to SRA-regulated solicitors, including:
Lower cost: No big-firm overheads or unpredictable hourly rates: we work on a clear day-rate or fixed-fee basis.
Flexibility: Scale support up or down each month/ bring us in only in peak periods.
Business partnership: We integrate like an in-house lawyer, getting to know your strategy, risk appetite and stakeholders
Location: Based in Bracknell, Berkshire and also serving clients across the UK & internationally via remote collaboration.
An in-house lawyer is a solicitor, or other legal professional, who traditionally is employed by a business and who manages legal risks, supports the Executive team, reviews contracts, provides legal advice, manages/translates legal advice given by law firms and helps create actionable change in the business.
An outsourced in-house lawyer is an external support that you can have on a fractional basis (only when you need them) who provides support in the way a traditional in-house lawyer would work. They build relationships with you, get to know your business, keeps updated on changes in your sector and helps build out your legal maturity/ embed tools to create efficiencies and cost-saving when it comes to legal compliance and mitigating legal risk.
When we say unregulated, we mean we are not regulated like an SRA-registered firm. These firms have to have certain levels of insurance cover, have large overheads (staff, compliance, offices) that they need to fund. We don’t have this. We hold adequate insurance, we don’t have an office, and we have a lean operation. There are some other nuances that we’ll talk you through at contracting stage.
The SRA changed their regulations on how legal services could be provided and allowed solicitors to provide services via limited companies. The idea behind this was to create competition in the industry and allow legal services to be more available and affordable for smaller businesses who may struggle to pay large legal fees. I myself though am regulated as I am an SRA-registered solicitor.
Experience and cost. I qualified in 2022 and while I have extensive experience, and have worked in-house providing legal support and advice for 7+ years, I hadn’t been a General Counsel at a company for 20+ years before setting up Adaptable Legal Counsel. However, I do have the experience to help your growing business and deal with the tasks I deal with. I also don’t charge the prices that Fractional General Counsel charge.
If you have any queries, book a consultation, and I can help you work out what level of support you need.
AK Legal Services Ltd (Company No. 15759215), trading as Adaptable Legal Counsel™, is a company incorporated in England & Wales with its registered office at 20 Wenlock Road, London, N1 7GU.
This business is not a firm of solicitors and is not regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority. As a result, we do not provide any of the “reserved legal activities” defined by the Legal Services Act 2007, such as litigation, conveyancing, probate or notarial work, nor do we hold client money.
We do offer commercially focused legal services such as contract drafting, negotiation, compliance advice and fractional in-house support, delivered by a qualified solicitor under a consultancy model that keeps fees transparent and significantly lower than traditional law firms.
