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Independent Legal Advice on Your Settlement Agreement

The 48-hour review: every clause read, the trade made visible, the recommendation given plainly — and in most cases, the employer covers the cost.

This is the service the site exists for: you have the document, the employer requires you to take advice, and the clock is running. Here is exactly what the review covers, exactly how the process runs, and exactly who pays — because the anxious hour after the agreement arrives deserves answers, not mystique.

What the Review Actually Does

Five passes through your document. The waiver, valued: which claims the schedule surrenders, and what they’re realistically worth on your facts — service, the process run, the strength of any claim — because the waiver is the price and prices should be known. The package, audited: what’s genuinely being provided against what’s already owed — notice, accrued holidays, the statutory floor — since packages sometimes dress up existing entitlements as generosity. The architecture, read: reference and announcement terms, confidentiality’s actual scope, non-disparagement, restrictive covenants (with a hard eye for new ones arriving in the exit document), pension handling, clawbacks, return of property. The gaps, flagged: the agreed reference wording that should be attached, the carve-outs that should exist, the tax question routed to your accountant before signature. The recommendation, plain: sign, ask, or think again — and when the deal is good, you’ll hear that directly, because some agreements should simply be signed and pretending otherwise would be its own malpractice.

The Process, the Price, the Deadline

The process: email the agreement (every page — the schedules are where the content lives), your contract if you have it, and the story in ten lines; the advice call runs by phone or video within 48 hours — evenings workable, because these conversations need privacy; the certificate and signing complete remotely. The price: by settled custom the employer pays a contribution toward the required advice — it protects their finality as much as your rights — and in most cases it covers most or all of the cost; the arrangement is confirmed with you in writing before any work begins, and a missing contribution clause is itself the first, easiest ask. The deadline: real but almost always softer than presented — extensions framed around obtaining the required advice are nearly always granted, and pressure to sign without advice is precisely what the informed-consent doctrine exists to prevent. Where the review finds improvable terms, the negotiation page shows how asks get made; where the exit is senior, the executive tier takes over before any certificate is contemplated.

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Forward it now - reviewed within 48 hours, same-day where a real deadline demands, contribution confirmed before any work begins. The trade made visible before it becomes permanent.

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Everything the document does, in five passes: THE WAIVER - which claims are being surrendered, whether the schedule reaches what it purports to, and the realistic value of what’s being given up on your specific facts (service, the process run, the strength of any claim); THE PACKAGE - what’s actually being provided against your existing entitlements, because packages sometimes dress up money already owed as generosity; THE ARCHITECTURE - reference, announcements, confidentiality and its scope, non-disparagement, restrictive covenants (especially NEW ones smuggled in), return of property, pension handling, clawbacks; THE GAPS - what’s missing that should be there: the agreed reference wording, the carve-outs, the contribution clause; and THE RECOMMENDATION, given plainly: sign, ask for specific improvements, or think again - with the asks identified and prioritised where negotiation is right.