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Submit an enquiry through this page or click the ‘get started’ button on our website. After you submit an enquiry, one of our legal consultants will review it within 1 business day and get in touch to better understand what you’re looking for.

Your legal consultant will then send you an email with more information about the services you need, along with a fixed-fee quote setting out the costs, scope of the service and timing. If you’re happy with it, you can accept and sign our engagement letter online.

Once you’ve formally accepted, we’ll connect you with a specialist lawyer who will work with you to complete your project. They will contact you by email or phone if needed.

Sprintlaw operates in Australia, New Zealand and the UK. In Australia, Sprintlaw is a regulated law firm and is an incorporated legal practice with number 32845 regulated by the Law Society of New South Wales. In New Zealand and the UK, Sprintlaw operates as a legal consultancy rather than a traditionally regulated law firm.

We chose to set up as a legal consultancy in New Zealand because it made our expansion into the New Zealand market faster and easier. It also means we have a lower compliance burden and can significantly reduce our overhead costs when performing legal work. We can then pass these cost savings on to our clients, allowing us to provide high quality legal services at a fraction of the cost of traditional firms.

There are some similarities between Sprintlaw NZ’s consultancy model and a traditional New Zealand law firm. Like a law firm, we offer legal services to small business clients across most of their regular legal needs, including drafting and reviewing contracts and providing legal and regulatory advice. However, there are some important differences and limitations to be aware of.

Our lawyers: The legal services we provide in New Zealand are not provided by New Zealand-qualified lawyers. Our lawyers are Australian-qualified lawyers or UK-qualified lawyers who are familiar with New Zealand laws and requirements, and are able to provide high quality legal services to New Zealand businesses. Given the strong similarities between Australian, English and New Zealand law, and the areas of law in which we practise, being small business and startup law, we do not view the fact that our lawyers have not qualified in New Zealand as having any substantive impact on the quality of our service.

Reserved areas: We are not permitted to provide services in reserved areas of law under section 6 and section 35 of the Lawyers and Conveyancers Act 2006 (see here). These include appearing in court or conducting litigation proceedings, managing conveyancing matters, or giving advice under the Property (Relationships) Act 1976. Sprintlaw does not operate in these areas. We find these areas are rarely relevant to our small business clients seeking commercial legal advisory services.

Privilege: When working with traditional law firms, advice provided is considered “privileged”. This means correspondence between a client and solicitor can, if made confidentially and for the purposes of legal advice, be withheld from a court or third party in connection with litigation proceedings. As Sprintlaw operates as a legal consultancy, certain advice we provide may not be “privileged” and may instead be treated in the same way as advice from your accountant or another adviser who is not a regulated solicitor or barrister. This does not affect our confidentiality obligations to you, and our engagement letter confirms that any advice or discussions we have will be kept confidential. As Sprintlaw does not operate in court-related or litigious matters, we find that privilege is rarely relevant to the kind of legal work we do.

Insurance: Sprintlaw is not required to have professional indemnity insurance that meets the New Zealand Law Society’s minimum requirements. Regardless, Sprintlaw has chosen to maintain professional indemnity cover so our clients still benefit from insurance protection.

There are many benefits to choosing Sprintlaw as your business legal team, including:

• saving time
• cost efficiency
• fixed fees
• quick turnaround
• a responsive legal team
• tailored service
• online communication by video, phone and email

We’re much like a traditional business legal team, except we operate entirely online. We communicate with clients by email, phone and video conference to help them find the right legal support for their business.

Unlike many traditional law firms, we also don’t bill by the hour. That means you know what to expect from the start, with no nasty surprises at the end.

We support clients across New Zealand through our online-first model. Because we work remotely by phone, email and video call, you can use Sprintlaw from anywhere in New Zealand. Where relevant, we can also support businesses operating across Australia, the UK and other Sprintlaw markets.

At Sprintlaw, we can help with many of the legal services your startup or small business may need, including company set-up, shareholders agreements, IP protection, website or app terms and conditions, leases, employees, loans and more.