Law Without The Fight
Easier. Cheaper. Quicker.
More Effective. More Human.
Turn your legal stuff from a necessary evil Into your strategic growth accelerator
By putting your relationships first
Because scaling is hard enough without legal combat killing your momentum
Most people approach legal as a fight to be won.​
Especially lawyers.​​​​
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But legal combat risks killing what makes a business special, destroys the relationships that drive long-term business success & increases international risk.​
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And it's you that should be deciding which approach gets used in your legal stuff, not your lawyers.
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So you can choose a better way.
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Our 'Relationship First' legal approach & frameworks help ambitious, globally growing founders & CEOs protect their business' secret sauce, scale cleanly & avoid unnecessary legal battles, all without the legal bullsh*t. It's faster, cheaper, more effective results, thanks to stronger business partnerships.
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So you turn your legal stuff from a necessary evil into a strategic growth driver.
Relationship First Law
"A breath of fresh air
compared to the trad model"
Trusted by ambitious fast-moving businesses across many different industries
How We Can Help
We can help you turn your legal stuff from a business blocker into a core building driver in several 'Relationship First' ways.
Want to embed relationship first law right across your business for maximum impact?
Want instant clarity on the best way forward when legal stuff hits your desk? Meet your 24/7 personal relationship-first legal co-pilot.
Want to immerse your team in the power of being collaborative not combative?
Proof It Works
"Makes law feel accessible, demystifies the complex, and makes the process easy"
Louise Barnard, Producer, DO Radio
I’ve seen first hand what happens when businesses flip the script & steer away from stressful, expensive legal combat to focus instead on long-term opportunities:
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A five-year IP battle I led cost millions but was finally resolved not through devastating arguments, but through a simple act: me going off-script and apologising. That apology ultimately built the relationship that led to the resolution.
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A ticking time bomb of anger on social media from aggrieved designers was defused with a credit that recognised their creativity, rather than an expensive, careful analysis to try to prove there was no copying.
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An urgent new multi-national opportunity was landed by ditching a contract & using a focussed discussion document, written in plain English in a conversational style, to quickly get the comfort needed, as we knew we never had the budget to sue the bigger player.
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Thousands in legal fees & months of wasted management time were avoided, and a strong new relationship was secured to replace a toxic broken one, by focussing on replacing the lost business when a partner simply halted supplies, rather than running off to court.
Businesses really can convert their legal headaches into strategic advantages simply by changing the frame: from me-versus-you, to us-together.
This isn’t theory. It works.
Steal a march on those still tied up in legal combat
It takes courage to leave the pack and pursue the less-travelled 'anti-combat' path.
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