Hello my name is Sonja Dale and I'm a
solicitor working at Keele University's
advise clinics. So I'm going to talk to
you today about the commercial advice
clinic, what is it and how can it help
you.
There are many many people with really,
really good business ideas and they take
them off the ground do really well but
then a few months later they get unstuck.
Why is that?
Well perhaps right at the beginning they
failed to use the correct business
vehicle for their business so perhaps
they used a partnership when in fact the
company would have been better or
vice-versa. Alternatively maybe they
failed to negotiate any terms and
conditions which means that when things
become difficult they go back to the
terms and conditions and they find that
the terms and conditions they have are
not very favorable to them that perhaps
it's the suppliers terms and conditions
that they're bound by or perhaps even
worse they don't have any terms and
conditions at all so if those are things
which are going to affect your business
then perhaps the commercial legal advice
clinic can help you. Are you confused
about what business vehicle to use for
your business company:
partnership; limited; liability
partnership; sole trader. What are the
advantages and disadvantages of all of
these different types of business medium?
Would you like to have some terms and
conditions which are just right for your
business so that you know where you
stand with your customers. Perhaps you
know that you want a company but you
don't know where to get started in
setting one up. Well if you can answer
yes to any of those questions then the
legal advice that it can help you our
student volunteers are trained and
supervised by a solicitor to give you
legal advice at no charge. Why do we do
it? Well I guess there are two reasons
really: number one as lawyers we know
that we need to give back to the
community for all the help that it's
given us and it's good for our students
to learn that at a very early stage in
their legal careers but also number two
we know that it helps our students in
their learning to see the real-world
impact of what they're studying in books.
So if you think the legal advice clinic
the commercial legal advice clinic can
help you and your business then please
click on the inquiries link and we look
forward to hearing from you.
