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Seeing a template contract for HR Consultancy work

Tracy

I'm often approached for HR or ER advice by people who know I'm an HR professional so I've now decided the time is right to start charging for my services. My professional indemnity / 3rd party public liability insurance is being set up but I need help with the "client / consultant" contract especially in respect of limiting my financial liability to the client.

Is any existing consultant able to share a simple contract? If not, I suppose an Employment Law solicitor would be able to draft one although it might be expensive!! I'm trying to keep start up costs to a minimum. Thanks.

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  • A solicitor will probably consult something like LexisNexis Encyclopaedia of Forms and Precedents and charge you several hundreds at least for doing a 'boilerplate job' on these templates. But there are hordes of different templates and some are concise and some detailed and some pro-client and some pro-consultant. So it's most important that all the appropriate bits get assembled together and you'll get a guarantee that it's all fit for purpose and protective of your own interests.

    Commercially aware clients will try to contract with you on their own t and c which will be decidedly not pro-consultant but designed to protect their own interests and not yours so if you get the chance to contract unambiguously on terms of your own choosing then you're onto a good thing, potentially.

    Much as it's a nice little earner for solicitors, the implications of getting it wrong can be very severe indeed so it's probably worth paying them in this instance rather than merely copying from another source without necessarily fully understanding all the implications and hoping for the best.

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  • A solicitor will probably consult something like LexisNexis Encyclopaedia of Forms and Precedents and charge you several hundreds at least for doing a 'boilerplate job' on these templates. But there are hordes of different templates and some are concise and some detailed and some pro-client and some pro-consultant. So it's most important that all the appropriate bits get assembled together and you'll get a guarantee that it's all fit for purpose and protective of your own interests.

    Commercially aware clients will try to contract with you on their own t and c which will be decidedly not pro-consultant but designed to protect their own interests and not yours so if you get the chance to contract unambiguously on terms of your own choosing then you're onto a good thing, potentially.

    Much as it's a nice little earner for solicitors, the implications of getting it wrong can be very severe indeed so it's probably worth paying them in this instance rather than merely copying from another source without necessarily fully understanding all the implications and hoping for the best.

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