@neil in many businesses the first contract is offered for below market value to get the customer on side.
However, you hardly get any legal advice or under £1000 so I would suggest £2000 as a baseline.
Make sure they understand you’re doing it for less than the going rate because you’re enthusiastic about their company, not because you’re desperate for work.
@peterbrown @neil no reason to go below market value to get a foot in the door.
How are you going to price the next job?
What I might do is go full price but give a discount on the NEXT job. So at least you get paid full and not get some vague promises to maybe get paid full price for some other job that might never come.
Oct 14, 2026, 6:06 PMIt is also worth bearing in mind that the explicit goal of this post was to hear what people on the commissioning side of this kind of work might consider to be reasonable, rather than supplier side pricing strategy :)
@neil @peterbrown yeah I know, sorry for hijacking your thread.
I have no idea of the UK market and GBP pricing.
It’s not the review of the (AI generated) terms and conditions. It’s the 25 open ended questions that are the big questionmark hovering around this fee quote
Oct 14, 2026, 6:11 PMOh, local rates are fine - this is mostly about people's own views about reasonableness!
@neil @wannes I think I would still stand by my original estimate.. I’m not keen on a future discount because quite frankly the objective of a lawyer should be to build an ongoing relationship with a client not based on money but based on good advice & reliability. The lawyer should aim to become that clients go to in any potential problem.
Offering discounts for jobs sounds too much like bathroom installation.