Who We Are and How We Work

Astute Law is a specialist employment law team with a unique 4 Stage Approach that ensures you get the best result possible.

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What makes us different?

We combine our extensive employment law know-how with business smarts to solve problems in a pragmatic way for both employees and employers.

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Looking for solutions to your workplace problems?

Whether you’re an employer or employee, when things go wrong, it can be a massive drain on your time, money and emotional energy.

People often assume there should be a clear-cut solution based on who is right and who is wrong in any given situation. It’s not that simple.

The basic issue is that business requires trusting relationships to function and when that breaks down, the law provides a framework for negotiating a resolution.

There are three questions you should be asking:

  • What’s the most effective way to get the outcome I want?
  • What will it cost me? (time, effort and money)
  • Is the most likely outcome worth the investment?

Based on those answers, you have important decisions you need to make. Getting it wrong can turn an unwanted tricky situations into a minefield.

Our job is to help you can make sense of whether the “juice is worth the squeeze” one affordable step at a time.

Our 4 Stage Approach Gets Results

There are important decisions you need to make that affect you now and for the future.

This step by step approach designed to solve your problem in a way that means you only pay for the most cost-effective route to the outcome you want.

 

Your FREE 15min Phone Call

Stage 1

Your FREE 7Q CONSULTATION and RESOLUTION

No documents reviewed but a clear resolution mapped out

Stage 2

Your Deep Dive Case Assessment & Strategic Plan

Fixed Cost to map your steps to resolution

Stage 3

Negotiating Your Solution from a Letter Before Action to a Conciliation Process

Fixed Cost or Hourly Rate priced on complexity

Stage 4

Tribunal Hearing and other legal proceedings

Fixed Cost priced on complexity

Your FREE 15min Call

This straight-forward chat with an expert solicitor will help you will quickly discover the three most important insights you need before you do anything else.
  • whether it makes sense for you to pursue your case (or not)
  • what your next steps should be.
  • whether we are the right people to help you achieve the outcome you want.

This is an initial conversation. It’s not a detailed case assessment and we won’t have time to look at any documentation. It’s designed to quickly understand your story, the circumstances, the outcome you’re looking for and to assess whether you have a case.

Stage 1 - Your 7Q Resolution Session

This conversation is designed to get a strategic step-by-step roadmap of how to get what you want and whether the ‘juice is worth the squeeze’.

We will help you work out whether it makes sense to pursue the outcome you really want but also understand what it would take by helping you answer these 7 critical questions:

  • What do you really want the outcome to be?
  • What is the strength of your legal position?
  • What are your options and steps for resolving it?
  • How much will each step likely cost?
  • What are your chances of success?
  • Would the reward be worth the cost and effort?
  • Are we the right people to help you?

At the end of this conversation, you will be able to make a firm decision about what to do or not do.

If there’s a quick win resolution to be had, you may be able to resolve it without further cost.

If it’s more complicated, you will know the pathway to achieve the outcome you want, an estimate of how much each step will cost and what you might gain at each stage.

Stage 2 - Your Detailed Case Assessment

Whether you’re an employee raising a claim for bullying, harassment or discrimination or an employer defending your business against such challenges, the Detailed Case Assessment is a critical step for strategising the steps to your successful outcome.

This is a fixed price review of all the actions and pertinent documents relating to the case including an assess of whether your people have done the right things in the right way.

We will schedule a detailed walkthrough session to discuss the facts and options and agree the best course of action. We will…

  • help you be very clear about your legal position and the strength of your case
  • map out your best path to success – from the letter before action to the potential tribunal hearing – and the likely challenges at each step
  • explain the specific arguments you need to make to negotiate a settlement proposal in your favour or to achieve whatever your desired outcomes are given your situation.
  • Ensure you understand the next steps and costs if this were to proceed as far as an employment tribunal.

Whether the next step is negotiation, conciliation, a settlement agreement or even if it goes to a tribunal – our priority is to find the right solution for you as fast as possible. That way you can decide with absolute certainty how to proceed.

Stage 3 – Negotiating Your Solution

Our goal is always to find the fastest way to the best resolution.

Sometimes, laying out the case in a letter before action is enough to help people to accept someone else’s perspective and agree to move on.

Sometimes we have to do the negotiation dance – especially when emotions are running high on both sides. Our commitment to you means we go backwards and forwards as many times as it takes until the deal makes sense.

Sometimes we have to fight all the way to the tribunal.

Nearly 80% of disputes are settled out of court.

We will help you navigate this pathway in a way that allows everyone to part ways with as little fuss as possible and the best outcome for you.

We’ve got your back until the resolution is done.

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A free consultation for us to discuss the best way to achieve your desired outcome. Excludes review of any documentation.

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