Business Legal Services

We offer a wide range of legal services for businesses of all sizes, with pricing plans designed for start-up, small and venture-backed businesses and medium to large businesses.

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Banking & Finance Law
Business Disputes
Business Immigration Law

We advise businesses, entrepreneurs, investors and educational establishments on all aspects of UK immigration law, from recruiting overseas staff to ensuring ongoing compliance obligations are being met with the UK Visas and Immigration (UKVI).

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Commercial Law
Commercial Property Law
Construction Law
Corporate Law
Data Protection & Privacy Law
Employee Share Schemes
Employment Law
Financial Services Regulation
Funding & Investment
Insolvency & Corporate Recovery
Intellectual Property
IT & Commercial Technology Law
As Your Business Grows
Our support is designed to guide you through the different situations you’re likely to encounter on your business evolves.
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Supporting Your Role

We understand your world and are on-hand to equip you with practical, real-world advice, so you can tackle obstacles, seize competitive advantages, and move forward with confidence. Whether it’s scaling your business, managing teams, or navigating new legal terrain, our support can help you unlock your organisation’s full potential.

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CEOs & Directors

See how our expert team help leaders like you navigate risk, scale operations, and strengthen commercial relationships.

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Finance Leaders

As a CFO, you’re often the de facto legal lead but this can eat into your time and energy. Let us help you manage your legal requirements, handle compliance, and drive sustainable growth.

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Founders & Entrepreneurs

Focus on leading your business with confidence. From governance to commercial growth, our expert legal support empowers founders to make informed decisions and drive success.

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HR Leaders

Employment law is constantly changing – don’t let your business fall behind. Let us help you stay compliant, reduce risk, and protect your workforce.

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In-House Lawyers

We act as an extension of your team, picking up overflow work and providing specialist expertise, helping free up your time and elevate your impact.

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Sector Expertise
There are often unique legal challenges faced by operating in different industries. Our sector-focused expertise provides pragmatic, commercially sound legal advice tailored to your business environment.
Creative Industries 
Energy, Utilities & Environmental 
Life Sciences 
Manufacturing & Engineering 
Public Sector 
Retail & Luxury Brands 
Sports 
Start-ups 
Technology 
Our Pricing & Service Plans
Our Pricing & Service Plans

We’ve reimagined the way law firms work with businesses to put you in control.

We offer three ways of working together to suit your needs, and thanks to our clever use of technology and remote operating model, they all deliver partner-level expertise with significant savings on ‘city’ law firm prices.

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The Engage Plan

Our Engage plan gives you flexible access to our experienced solicitors, with no fixed monthly cost and low hourly rates, typically £298 per hour. Whatever legal assistance you need, we can support you, and the cost of using our experienced solicitors will provide a significant saving compared to those associated with traditional law firms.

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The Enable Plan

Our Enable plan is a 12-month subscription, costing £219 per month. Included in the subscription is £149 of credit each month, plus access to our Standard Rates at 50% discount, providing consistently great savings on each project we assist you with.

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The Extend Plan

Our Extend plan is a smarter way for high-growth and established businesses to get legal advice. A legal subscription service with dedicated account management, it gives you priority access to a curated team of highly experienced solicitors, whenever you need them, at a budget set by you.

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Fixed Fee Products

Solve common issues with our suite of fixed fee products, giving you clarity on costs and deliverables.

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About Us

Harper James is a new breed of commercial law firm – a national law firm designed exclusively to champion ambitious and entrepreneurial businesses, enabling them to access expert legal advice at an affordable cost when they need it most. We work with start-ups through to established businesses that have been running for years or looking to scale, futurecorns and unicorns as well as those ready to sell and often build their next business.

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Careers

Work with like-minded individuals and free from the bureaucracy of traditional law firms in a truly flexible workplace. We offer career opportunities for solicitors and business support professionals that meet your needs and evolve as you evolve.

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Meet Our Team

Meet the people of Harper James.

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Press & Media

Our solicitors are well-positioned to provide commentary on all manner of commercial legal issue and regularly contribute to both national, sector and industry press.

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What Our Clients Say

A selection of our client testimonials.

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Work with like-minded individuals and free from the bureaucracy of traditional law firms in a truly flexible workplace. We offer career opportunities for solicitors and business support professionals that meet your needs and evolve as you evolve.
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The latest news and insights from Harper James including our ‘Meet the client’ interview series, case studies, legal updates, events and webinars, podcasts, videos and spotlights on our solicitors.

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Client Stories

Examples of some of the exciting work and waves our clients are making as well as in-depth client interviews and stories.

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Events & Webinars

Providing practical insights and Q&A opportunities based on common legal challenges.

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Podcasts & Videos

Watch and listen to our latest podcasts and videos featuring client and Harper James interviews and stories.

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Thoughts & Opinions

Our views and perspectives on some of the latest developments.

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Knowledge Hub for Growth

Our free resource designed to help your business overcome challenges and realise its potential. Written by lawyers and business experts, these resources will help you decipher legal terminology and tackle key milestones from securing funding and growing your team, to protecting your ideas and expanding to new markets.

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On-demand webinar: identifying and protecting patents, know-how and design rights
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On-demand webinar: identifying and protecting patents, know-how and design rights

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Updated on 17 December 2019
Rob Cobley
Our subject expert
Rob Cobley
Commercial Partner
On-demand webinar: identifying and protecting patents, know-how and design rights

This webinar covers the basics of protecting intellectual property, but with a focus on patents and design rights. You will learn about the different types of IP along with safeguarding your IP and IP ownership. This webinar is particularly suitable if your business is in the fields of:

  • Manufacturing
  • Advanced manufacturing
  • Hardware
  • Consumer products
  • Design
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tygzKdYicIU

About our expert

Rob Cobley

Rob Cobley

Commercial Partner
Rob has over fifteen years’ experience advising a wide range of businesses, mainly in private practice, since qualifying as a solicitor in 2006.
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A national law firm

Our commercial lawyers are based in or close to major cities across the UK, providing expert legal advice to clients both locally and nationally.

We mainly work remotely, so we can work with you wherever you are. But we can arrange face-to-face meeting at our offices or a location of your choosing.

Head Office

Birmingham 
Floor 5, Cavendish House, 39-41 Waterloo Street, Birmingham, B2 5PP
Regional Spaces

Cardiff 
Capital Tower Business Centre, 3rd Floor, Capital Tower, Greyfriars Road, Cardiff, CF10 3AG
Cambridge 
Stirling House, Cambridge Innovation Park, Denny End Road, Waterbeach, Cambridge, CB25 9QE
Manchester 
13th Floor, Piccadilly Plaza, Manchester, M1 4BT
London 
10 Fitzroy Square, London, W1T 5HP
Oxford 
Belsyre Court, 57 Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6HJ
Sheffield 
1st Floor, Dearing House, 1 Young St, Sheffield, S1 4UP
Southampton 
White Building Studios, 1-4 Cumberland Place, Southampton, SO15 2NP
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