A legal team that grows
with your business
Flexible and managed legal support
Clearlake provides growing UK companies with a flexible, outsourced legal team on a predictable monthly basis.
As your business grows, legal work becomes more frequent, more varied and harder to manage through occasional instructions to external firms. Hiring an in-house lawyer may seem like the next step, but one recruit still gives you one person’s time, experience and capacity.
Clearlake gives you access to a complete managed legal team on a flexible monthly basis. We combine lawyers at different levels of seniority with specialist expertise, trusted panel firms and a senior relationship lead who takes responsibility for coordinating the service.
You can start with the support you need today and adapt the team as your business develops. Clearlake One brings the service together, giving your stakeholders a clear view of matters, contracts and workflows through one connected legal platform.
An outsourced legal team built for your business
Your Clearlake service is built around the legal work your business actually needs. You gain flexible access to an experienced team, specialist support and connected technology within one managed service and one predictable monthly commitment.
Support when you need it
You don’t need to commit to a lawyer for several full days every week. Clearlake can provide support by the hour, allowing you to use your agreed capacity whenever work arises during the month. You can start at a relatively modest level and increase or reduce as your requirements change.
The right lawyer for each matter
Different matters require different levels of experience. Your Clearlake team can include lawyers at several levels of seniority and price, allowing routine work to be handled efficiently while senior judgement remains available for complex, sensitive or strategically important issues. You receive a legal team rather than becoming dependent on the availability and expertise of one individual.
One accountable relationship
A senior Clearlake lawyer acts as your principal point of contact and develops a close understanding of your business, priorities and approach to risk. Clearlake remains responsible for coordinating the wider team, allocating work and maintaining consistency across the service. You gain broader capability without having to manage multiple lawyers and suppliers yourself.
Specialist expertise when needed
Your business is unlikely to need every legal specialism every day. Clearlake can bring specialist lawyers and selected panel firms into your team when a matter requires additional expertise. This gives you access to broader legal capability without employing every specialist internally or finding and managing a new firm each time an unfamiliar issue arises.
Predictable monthly cost
Your Clearlake service is based on an agreed monthly commitment, giving you a dependable legal budget that can be approved and planned internally. Within that commitment, work can be allocated between lawyers at different rates and levels of seniority. This helps you obtain the right support without paying a senior rate for every task.
One connected legal platform
Clearlake One provides a shared view of the legal work being delivered. Senior stakeholders can track matters and contracts, monitor progress and access organised information without relying on disconnected email chains and spreadsheets. The platform can also support document upload, contract data extraction, bespoke contract workflows and self-service tools for selected routine legal tasks.
UK and international support
Clearlake combines an SRA-authorised English legal practice with international capability. We support UK businesses operating domestically and across borders, coordinating specialist and jurisdiction-specific advice where required. This allows your legal support to develop with your commercial footprint rather than becoming fragmented as the business expands.
Experience in growing and complex businesses
Our lawyers bring experience from leading UK and US law firms, senior in-house roles and major international businesses. We focus particularly on sectors we understand, including advanced manufacturing, financial technology and software as a service. This helps us understand the commercial environment around the legal work, not simply the legal question in isolation.
Capacity that changes with you
Your legal requirements will change as your business hires, launches products, enters markets, completes transactions and signs more customers. Clearlake can adjust the size, composition and expertise of your team without requiring another recruitment exercise or leaving permanent headcount underused when demand changes.
More than a legal hire
An in-house lawyer can be an excellent investment, but a single appointment cannot provide every level of seniority, specialist discipline or amount of capacity your business may need. Clearlake gives you access to a managed team within one relationship.
Routine work can be handled efficiently, senior lawyers remain available when judgement matters and specialists can be introduced when required. You also avoid much of the recruitment, employment, technology and management burden involved in assembling the same capability internally.
Expert support for your next stage of growth
Clearlake can act as your complete outsourced legal function or work alongside the people and advisers you already have. We will shape the team, monthly commitment and supporting technology around the work your business needs.
You gain broad capability, continuity and visibility without having to recruit and manage every part of an in-house legal department. As your needs change, your Clearlake team and platform can change with them.
