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Prosper Law’s contract lawyers have experience in drafting, reviewing and negotiating consultancy agreements. Consultancy agreements set out the conditions of your professional consultancy services. The contract can protect your rights, mitigate risks, limit your liability, and help avoid complex disputes.
Our expert team is here to help with new client agreements, contractual disputes, and legal obligations. We are knowledgeable in managing insurance terms, liability limits, consequential loss, warranties, indemnities, and other consulting contract terms.
Our clients include Australian and international consulting firms and individual consultants. We understand the consulting industry’s challenges and requirements well. We make sure your contracts are strong, legally sound, and support your professional goals.
Contracts for consulting services differ between industries and the type of services provided. Partner with us to safeguard your interests and navigate the complexities of consulting contracts with confidence.
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We have created bespoke fee proposal terms, master services agreements and other consulting agreement template terms.
Our clients benefit from user-friendly legal templates that require minimal legal knowledge and are plug-and-play. This allows you to focus on your clients, fees and scope of services.
We specialise in ensuring that your consulting agreements provide robust legal protection for your interests and reduce legal risks.
Our contract review services are affordable and essential in ensuring the terms are fair and protect your interests. This advice can determine whether your project will be profitable or problematic.
We specialise in reviewing contracts and departure schedules with meticulous attention to detail. We also assist in completing tender responses.
With Prosper Law's assistance, you can confidently negotiate terms, ensuring that you minimise risks and meet industry standards. Allowing you to make informed decisions that enhance project outcomes, while safeguarding your interests.
Consultants often share intellectual property with clients as part of their services.
We safeguard your intellectual assets by implementing a crucial safeguarding clause. This means intellectual property rights only pass when you have received payment. This ensures clarity and protection of valuable creations.
Our lawyers structure agreements that preserve your rights and mitigate potential risks associated with IP disputes.
Capturing these risks in the professional services contract is important. With our expertise, you can focus on delivering exceptional services.
Consulting agreements should contain clauses that address how and when the independent contractor receives payment.
Our legal team ensure that payment terms are industry standard. We will also ensure you can regularly invoice your client and that you’re not subject to unfair set-off clauses.
If clients are not paying you on time, we can assist with legal services to help recover the debt. Our lawyers can prepare a letter of demand, statutory demand, commence legal proceedings and other debt recovery strategies.
Consultancy agreements are complex agreements between professional advisors and their clients. Our legal team has extensive experience with consulting agreement terms.
Our clients include local, national and international consulting firms. Our highly experienced lawyers work with large legal teams, family-owned consulting firms and national and international engineering, architecture and professional advisory businesses.
Clients rely on us for our tailored services and deep legal knowledge of contracts.
Whether you need to prepare, review, negotiate or respond to a consulting agreement – we can help. We can tailor our consultancy contract review services to meet your needs.
Prosper Law can offer a one-off consulting agreement review or an ongoing legal retainer. We also offer legal counsel services. Contact us for a fixed-fee quote.
We have worked with several national and international professional consulting firms in the engineering industry.
Our team regularly review and draft engineering consultancy contracts. These include preparing a schedule of departures or direct mark ups and advice.
Consultancy agreement templates are a key part of managing risk for your business. We have prepared template contracts for various professional services industries, including architecture and engineering.
Disputes can quickly become expensive and damage customer relationships. Our consulting lawyers have successfully resolved disputes in a commercial way and without the need to involve insurers.
We know we need to act quickly and professionally to negotiate contract terms.
Prosper Law has prepared joint venture agreements for international consultants. This involved a large and complex project with a high value.
We know the success of a joint venture largely depends on the agreement to govern the rights and obligations of each party.
Our team of lawyers come from different industry backgrounds, and all are experienced when it comes to consulting contracts.
Meet our team of professional contract lawyers – you’ll be glad you did.
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We will adapt our approach based on your instructions. Our team of contract lawyers have extensive experience and can create your contracts to your preference.
Prosper Law can review, draft, and negotiate your consulting agreement in a friendly and commercial manner. We can also take a firm approach if needed. We will confirm which approach you would like us to take before starting work.
Our initial scoping call with you will seek to identify recurring issues that your business experiences. We will also explain terms that may be problematic and provide ideas to manage these issues.
Yes, we will always take steps to protect your business’s relationship with clients. If we become aware that contract negotiations or particular terms may cause problems with clients, we will advise you. You can then decide how you would like to address these issues in your consulting agreement.
When we ask for changes to a consultancy contract, we give clear and detailed explanations for why we request the change for your business. In our experience, this ensures that we leave the door open for negotiation and alternative clause wording.
We can tailor our consulting review services to include reviewing:
Prosper Law can help consulting firms manage sub-consulting risks, draft subcontracts and comply with head contract requirements.
Poor quality consulting services can lead to professional indemnity claims. For this reason alone, it is important to engage with a consultancy agreement lawyer to manage this risk.
For example, a head contract may require you to pass terms through to your sub-consultant. A sub-consultant may also need to provide information that you are relying on. They may also need to meet minimum insurance requirements.
We can provide training, templates, contract manuals, and other tools to assist you.
Our consultancy agreement manuals provide a valuable guideline for your team. The manual can help your team to understand how and when to negotiate contract changes. Our contract manuals will combine:
We can also prepare template contracts. Our range of template agreements includes:
Take steps towards protecting your professional consulting firm. Contact us today for a no-obligation, fixed-fee quote (or ask us about our affordable hourly rates).
An experienced consultancy agreement lawyer should review, negotiate, and prepare professional consulting contracts. Several reasons arise for this, including:
Our consulting contract lawyers will include key terms in a consulting agreement. This will help lower risk and protect your business.
Issues may also come up when you are providing services and throughout the term. Our team has extensive experience in consultancy contracts and problem management.
Prosper Law can assist your business with dispute resolution processes.
We will review the written agreement and the circumstances surrounding the dispute. Once we understand the issue, we can provide you with a strategy to resolve the issue and a fixed fee quote.
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