Why we write law guides
Legal questions rarely arrive in tidy categories. A client phone call, an internal email, or a board paper tends to mix facts, commercial priorities, and partial references to the law. These guides are written to help you unpack those situations into manageable issues and steps before you draft, negotiate, or advise.
Each guide focuses on a specific workflow: setting up a company, updating employment terms, onboarding a vendor, responding to a regulator and so on. We start with an overview, then offer a series of questions, checkpoints, and documents that typically matter for that topic.
Guide themes
Areas currently covered
The examples below illustrate the kind of legal guidance we maintain in this section.
Corporate & commercial
From term sheet to signed agreement
We outline how to manage key clauses, approval processes, signing mechanics, and closing conditions, including the questions to ask when foreign law or forums are involved.
Employment & HR
Managing the employee lifecycle
This theme groups guides on offers, contracts, policies, investigations, and separation, helping HR and legal teams coordinate in a consistent way.
Governance & compliance
Keeping boards and regulators informed
These guides focus on how to structure board packs, minutes, internal approvals, and regulatory filings to reduce friction and lower risk in later disputes or reviews.
Internal links
Move between guides, books, resources, and case studies.
To build topical authority and make navigation straightforward, each law guide is connected with further reading and practical tools.
Legal books
Deeper treatment of core subjects
When a guide introduces a complex topic, we point to the relevant chapters in our legal books so that readers can explore the doctrine, case law, and drafting notes in more detail.
Case studies
Seeing the steps play out in practice
Many guides are paired with case studies that use real‑world fact patterns to show where procedures go smoothly and where they can break down.
Resources
Documents and checklists you can adapt
The resources section offers example clauses, checklists, and forms referenced in the guides, so you can tailor them to your own context.