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One of the most significant, and least discussed, costs facing UK tech businesses is legal spend that delivers no predictability and no retained commercial understanding. This article explains how Law 365 structures its pricing, why the subscription model exists, and what that difference means for your bottom line, so you can make an informed decision about how to protect your business.

What This Means for Your Business

For a tech business at any stage of growth, uncontrolled legal costs create a straightforward problem: you either under-invest in legal protection to manage spend, or you absorb unpredictable invoices that have no direct link to outcomes. Law 365 was built specifically to remove that tension for UK tech businesses by offering an alternative to the hourly billing model with a fixed monthly subscription that includes ongoing, commercially focused legal support.

1. How Law 365 Pricing Is Structured

Law 365 operates a legal subscription model, with plans designed for businesses at different stages of legal complexity. Rather than quoting a single price, the right tier depends on the volume of legal work, the types of contracts involved, and the level of ongoing advisory input required.

Law 365 offer a 3 month, 6 month or 12 month subscription term on either a monthly or a quarterly basis. Within these options you can choose the number of hours of legal support you require per month, starting at a minimum monthly of 5 hours or a minimum quarterly of 15 hours. The more hours per month you commit to within the subscription the cheaper the hourly rate becomes. Prices start from just £1550 per month. 

2. Subscription vs Hourly Billing: The Commercial Difference

Most UK law firms only bill by the hour. Rates for commercial solicitors typically range from £250 to £600 per hour depending on seniority and firm size and location. A single contract review, negotiation, or dispute can quickly reach four figures before any resolution is reached.

The structural problems with hourly billing for tech businesses are consistent across the market.

• Cost unpredictability, no cap on spend per matter or per month
• Reactive-only engagement, legal input arrives after a problem has formed, not to prevent issues
• Knowledge gap, each new instruction starts from scratch on understanding your business model and industry
• Delayed access, cost concerns cause founders to defer legal input on deals, contracts, and disputes until it is too late

A subscription removes the pressure of the hourly billing, meaning legal input is available when it is actually needed, not only when the cost feels justifiable.

3. What a Law 365 Subscription Covers

The subscription is built around the recurring legal needs of UK tech businesses, not general commercial work. This is a meaningful distinction. A general commercial solicitor will handle anything. Law 365 is focused specifically on the contracts, disputes, and commercial structures that matter in tech.

• Included: SaaS agreements, MSP contracts, Microsoft Partner terms, supplier and reseller agreements, employment contracts, data protection and GDPR support, NDAs, and ongoing commercial advice
• Included: proactive review of contracts before signing, not only reactive advice after a dispute arises
• Excluded: litigation and matters outside the commercial tech scope, which are referred or scoped separately

The scope is deliberately focused. What Law 365 covers, it covers thoroughly, as part of an ongoing commercial relationship, not as a series of disconnected instructions.

Why This Matters in Practice

• Contract risk, poorly drafted SaaS or MSP agreements expose you to liability, scope creep, and unenforceable terms that hourly lawyers rarely flag proactively
• Deal velocity, subscription access means legal input does not become a bottleneck when you are closing commercial agreements and new deals under time pressure
• Budget certainty, fixed monthly cost allows legal spend to sit in the budget as a known line, not as a variable that spikes unpredictably
• Sector knowledge, advice from solicitors who understand Microsoft licensing, SaaS commercial models, and MSP contractual structures as a baseline, not as something they need to research
• Growth readiness, as your business scales, your legal model scales with it, rather than requiring a new firm relationship from scratch

Why Law 365

Law 365 was built exclusively for UK tech businesses. That shapes everything about how it works.

• Specialist focus on SaaS, MSPs, and Microsoft Partners, with no generalist commercial work diluting the practice
• Fixed monthly subscription replaces unpredictable hourly billing with a known, agreed cost that is accounted for in your budget
• Proactive legal input built into the model, not triggered only by problems
• Retained commercial understanding of your business, carried forward across every instruction
• Tiered plans that reflect where your business actually is, with the ability to move between tiers as complexity grows

For CEOs and Founders of UK tech businesses, the question is not whether you need legal support, it is whether the model you are using is working for your business. Paying hourly rates for lawyers who are unfamiliar with your sector is not a neutral choice, it is a cost and a risk that compounds over time.

Speak to our team today to find out how a Law 365 subscription compares to what you are currently spending on legal support.