Subscription Counsel — Fixed-fee Legal Retainer

Subscription tiers. Pick the volume that matches your work.

Each tier covers a defined scope of routine legal work — contract reviews, governance, day-to-day advisory. Out-of-scope matters (transactions, disputes) are quoted separately under a project model.

AA Partners

£2,500/ month

For companies with predictable monthly legal needs — a handful of contracts a month, governance, advisory.

What's included:

Up to 8 hours partner time per month

Contract review + drafting

Governance + board pack support

On-call advisory within business hours

24-hour partner response SLA

Quarterly review session

Estimated delivery:Three-month minimum · monthly thereafter

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What is included

Inside the subscription

- Contract review + drafting (within scope)

- Day-to-day commercial advisory

- Governance + board pack support

- Subscription-volume on-call partner access

Standard commercial work that recurs each month — the legal background music of running a business. Customer contracts, supplier agreements, NDAs, governance documents, advisory questions from the team.

See Standard tier

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What is NOT included

Quoted separately

- M&A transactions + investment rounds

- Litigation + active disputes

- Energy or infrastructure project work

- Specialist tax or IP-litigation advice

Out-of-scope work is quoted separately under a project model. Subscription clients get priority capacity and a discount on the project rate, but transactional and contentious work is its own scope.

See project model

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Why subscription works

For both sides

- Predictable cost for the client

- No "should I email the lawyer for this?" friction

- Deep familiarity with your business builds month over month

- Aligned incentives — we win when the work runs smoothly

Per-hour billing forces clients to ration their use of counsel — usually badly. Subscription removes the meter. We get to know your business properly, you get to use legal counsel for the small questions that prevent the big problems.

Book a subscription scope call

Eight things subscription clients use the partner team for in a typical month.

Customer contracts — reviewing or drafting

MSAs, statements of work, NDAs, terms of business. Either reviewing what the other side has sent or drafting our own form for you to use as standard.

Supplier contracts — negotiating push-back

When a vendor sends terms that need negotiation. Usually two or three back-and-forth rounds inside the subscription rather than billed per round.

Employment + contractor documents

Employment contracts, contractor agreements, IP assignment paperwork, settlement agreements for departing staff.

Governance — board packs, resolutions, filings

Drafting board resolutions, advising on filings, preparing material for board meetings, statutory filings at Companies House.

Investor / funding-round documentation

For early-stage rounds where documentation is relatively standard. Larger or more bespoke rounds usually move out of scope into a project engagement.

Privacy + data questions

DPA negotiations, privacy-notice updates, breach-response triage, vendor-due-diligence on data protection.

Day-to-day commercial questions

The "is this OK to do?" questions that come up in normal trading. Often a 10-minute call rather than a written memo.

Horizon-scanning — regulatory and risk

A monthly note on the regulatory and legal developments most relevant to your business and sector. Plain English, action-oriented.

What happens if I do not use my monthly hours?

Unused hours within a quarter roll over to the next month of that quarter. They do not stack indefinitely — the model is built on a steady monthly volume, not feast-and-famine usage.

What happens if I go over?

Can I cancel?

Will I always work with the same partner?

Can I send work outside of London hours?

How does this differ from fractional general counsel?

Can subscription be combined with project work?

Is there a free trial?

Subscription clients on the AA Partners model.

Subscription in practice

Average hours used per month

of 10

Tier — Standard vs Embedded

of 10

~7 hrs

24 hr

Same day

3 mo

A snapshot of how subscription clients actually use the model — across volume, tier-split, and typical work mix. Real numbers, not marketing figures.

Book a subscription scope call

Scope a subscription with a partner.

A free 30-minute scoping call. We discuss the volume and type of work, recommend a tier, and agree the scope in writing within two working days.

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Subscription scope call

30 minutes. Free. Direct with a partner.

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