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Healthcare recruitmentAthona

Healthcare recruitment, with the paperwork keeping pace

Consistently available with clear, well-considered advice. Communication is of a high standard, and we are never left waiting for information or assistance.

Tanya IronmongerOperations, Athona

Illustrative

Matters in 14 months

34

Saved

45%

Day to day

Employment and HRLegal advice and guidanceCommercial contractsRegulatory and compliance

When it mattered

Redundancy processes and restrictive covenants handled correctly and kindly, a new brand trade mark defended against unauthorised use, a lease surrender for the office estate and an EMI option scheme.

Where the pressure is

A healthcare recruiter runs on people, which means the legal load is constant and mostly HR-shaped: new starters, role changes, maternity, absence, redundancy, restrictive covenants, all under sector regulation and NHS framework rules. Around that sit supplier and client terms, NDAs, the odd unpaid invoice and the brand itself. No single question is large. Together they would keep a lawyer busy full time, which is why Athona uses us as one.

What we did

One Enterprise plan covers the whole group, with five people across the business able to open matters. Around forty-five matters a year, most of them answered inside the week.

  • Employment contracts, offer letters and job descriptions for an expanding workforce
  • Policy reviews, flexible working, maternity and role changes, absence, redundancy processes and restrictive covenants, handled correctly and kindly
  • Supplier and client terms, NDAs, a contractual dispute and an unpaid invoice
  • Heads of terms and a lease surrender for the office estate
  • A new brand trade mark, action on unauthorised use of the logo, GDPR retention and subject access requests, and an EMI option scheme

The services behind this work

All legal services
Commercial contract drafting and reviewAgreements that protect you before you sign Employment and HR supportHire, manage and part ways safely Regulatory and compliance guidanceStay on the right side of the rules Legal advice and guidanceA solicitor on hand before things go wrong

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Illustrative figures based on the pattern of work each client brings, not a statement of their account. A matter is one complete piece of legal work with a deliverable. Each illustration uses the plan indicated by the client’s size, and covers the period they have been with us rather than a projected year, with the plan’s matter allowance applied pro rata to that period. The Lawyerly figure is the published plan price for that period, plus our published fixed fees at that plan’s subscriber discount for any matters beyond the allowance. The comparison applies the Guideline Hourly Rate for a Grade C solicitor in London 1, £305 an hour from 1 January 2026, at an average of four and a half hours a matter. Guideline Hourly Rates are set by the courts for the assessment of costs and sit below commercial rates, so the comparison is conservative. Matter counts come from our case system, September 2026. Each client has approved the use of their name.

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Willem van der Merwe

Co-Founder

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