CLIENT CASE STUDIES

Real examples from clients who trust us

A selection of the businesses we look after. Each one began with understanding how the business actually runs, so the legal work fits the commercial reality rather than the other way round. 

Experiences and giftingVirgin Experience Days

One legal team for every experience

Our work for Virgin Experience Days spans every department, which means we see their business as a whole rather than as a series of isolated legal questions. That perspective is what allows our work to be consistent and commercial.

Patricia TinnLegal Service Director, Lawyerly

Illustrative

Matters in 9 months

18

Saved

42%

When it mattered

A proactive legal review of the whole business at the start of the relationship, and specialists briefed, instructed and overseen when a matter needed one, so hours stayed lean.

Where the pressure is

An experience gifting business is a marketplace: thousands of supplier partners on one side, consumers and corporate buyers on the other, and a well-known brand in the middle. Every partner needs a contract that protects the customer and the name, every campaign touches consumer law and the brand guidelines, and a large team brings a steady stream of employment questions. The legal work never stops, and much of it used to go to external firms on the clock.

What we did

Around thirty-five matters a year on the Enterprise plan, with the legal function run as a single desk.

  • Supplier, partner and customer agreements reviewed and negotiated so deals keep moving
  • Day-to-day employment advice, and protection for the brand behind the experiences
  • General advice across departments, from marketing to operations, answered inside the week
  • A proactive legal review of the business at the start of the relationship
  • Legal spend management: when a matter needs a specialist, we brief, instruct and oversee them so hours stay lean

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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