North Lumen is a small practice built around one idea: you should always understand what is happening in your own matter, what it will cost, and what happens next.
We keep the practice deliberately narrow. If a matter sits outside these areas, we will tell you at the first conversation instead of taking it on.
Agreements read and drafted so the obligations are legible to the people who have to live with them.
Transactions and boundary questions handled with the searches done early, not the week before completion.
Advice for employers and individuals on the point where a working relationship becomes a legal one.
Most frustration with legal work comes from not knowing what is happening. We structure every matter the same way so that question never needs asking.
You describe the situation; we tell you whether it needs legal work at all, and whether we are the right practice for it. No charge, no obligation.
Before any work starts, you receive a letter setting out what we will do, who will do it, how fees are calculated, and what falls outside the scope.
One named solicitor stays with the matter throughout. You are told when something changes, and asked before any step that affects cost or position.
At the end you receive a plain summary of what was agreed, the documents that matter, and a note of anything worth watching in future.
If yours is not here, put it in the enquiry form — an unanswered question is a reasonable reason to get in touch.
It depends on the matter. Defined pieces of work — a lease review, a settlement agreement — are quoted as a fixed fee. Matters that develop over time are charged hourly against an agreed ceiling, and we come back to you before that ceiling is reached. Either way, the figures are in your scope letter before work begins.
Whatever you already have: the contract, the correspondence, the notice, the title documents. If you have nothing written down, that is fine too — a clear account of what happened and in what order is genuinely more useful than a partial paper trail.
Enquiries sent through this page are read by a solicitor, not an inbox filter, and answered within one working day. If your matter has a deadline — a notice period, a tribunal date, a completion date — say so in the first line and it will be prioritised.
Most of it, yes. Documents are exchanged securely, meetings can be held by video, and signatures are handled electronically where the document allows it. Where a matter genuinely requires meeting in person, we will tell you at the outset rather than partway through.
A few lines is enough to start. We will read it, tell you honestly whether it needs legal work, and set out what handling it would involve.
Anything you send through this form is treated as confidential. Sending an enquiry does not create a solicitor–client relationship; that begins only once a scope letter is agreed in writing.