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Consultancy without compromise
You did not spend years training as a lawyer to spend your evenings managing other people’s workload. If bureaucracy, capped earnings or a rigid structure are getting between you and the work you actually want to do, there is another way to practise.
Picture a practice built entirely around your ambition: the calibre of work you want, the clients you’re proud to represent, and the freedom to decide what “success” and a desired lifestyle looks like for you.
At Ignition Law, 65% of our team are consultants. We are not a traditional firm with a consultant arm attached. We are a fully harmonised hybrid built around consultant lawyers, combining the quality of work and calibre of clients you would expect from a leading regulated commercial law firm with the flexibility and autonomy today’s best lawyers are looking for.
We’re one of only a handful of B Corp certified law firms in the UK, and our work with entrepreneurs and growth businesses has been recognised with multiple industry awards.
Built for modern legal practice
The legal profession has changed. Clients now expect senior expertise without unnecessary overheads, and lawyers expect a career that fits around their life, not the other way around.
Traditional partnership models, with their layers of management, billing targets and long routes to autonomy, were built for a different generation of practice. Ignition Law exists because that model no longer serves either side.
We combine the quality, technology and client base of an established commercial firm with the flexibility today’s best lawyers are looking for. This is consultancy without compromise.
Is consulting right for you?
Perhaps you are:
- A partner, feeling the drag of management responsibility and internal politics, and you want to get back to the client work that drew you into the law in the first place.
- A talented senior associate or junior partner, frustrated by capped earnings, restrictive structures or a growth ceiling you cannot see past.
- A later-career lawyer, no less capable than ever, who wants to keep practising on your own terms rather than stepping aside.
- Returning to practice after parental leave or caring responsibilities, and you are looking for a model that offers genuine flexibility and a renewed sense of purpose.
- You do not yet have a full client following of your own, and the idea of consultancy feels like a leap.
Ignition Law can provide work while you build your practice, helping you ease into the world of freelancing, so you are not starting from zero.
What's it like to work at Ignition Law?
Ignition Law is built differently. 65% of our team are consultants, working remotely and shaping their own working pattern, supported by a smaller employed team based in our London office and established operational, HR, finance, marketing, know-how, business development and compliance services – exactly as you would find in any law firm and none of which are charged to our consultants.
You are not a lone operator working from a kitchen table with nothing behind you. Every consultant sits within a practice area team, working alongside colleagues who understand your specialism and often share your client base.
The collegiate culture matters just as much as the infrastructure. Regular team meetings create space to discuss opportunities, share experience and ask for a second view, while our know-how resources and practice-area updates help everyone stay connected to the wider firm’s expertise.
There is a social side too. Firm-wide get-togethers, offsites and informal events give people the chance to spend time together away from client work, build relationships and feel part of the team, wherever they are usually based.
Whether you are in the office once a month or once a year, you are part of a firm, not simply a name on a website.
FAQ's
Ignition Law is a hybrid firm, with 65% of our team working as consultants, primarily remotely. We have a smaller team of employees on payroll who work from our London office. Culturally, Ignition is unusual to some other freelance models in that our consultants work in practice area teams, and so have the support and collaboration of a fee earner network while having the freedom and flexibility to work to their own schedules. Our team of paralegals and junior associates are available to support senior consultants with transactions.
Yes, Ignition can provide work for consultants. We see ourselves as an environment where solicitors can ease into the world of freelancing by balancing Ignition-generated work alongside building their own practice.
For any Ignition-generated work, you will be paid an hourly rate, with an invoice generated and paid each month. For work you bring in, the fee is 60% of the paid bill (70% over £100,000), and 10% for any work that another fee earner has to complete, paid when the client pays.
While consultants remain responsible for managing their client relationships and legal work, our Operations, Finance, Onboarding and Credit Control teams support many of the administrative tasks that would typically fall to a sole practitioner running their own practice, including:
- Client onboarding, KYC and engagement letters.
- Matter setup on our practice management system.
- Drafting and issuing invoices.
- Credit control and payment chasing.
- Monthly consultant payment processing.
- WIP reporting.
- General operational support and troubleshooting.
No. There is no requirement to work exclusively with Ignition Law. Many of our consultants build a genuine portfolio career, taking on work from other sources alongside their practice with us.
Not necessarily - it helps, but it isn't essential. Alongside the clients you bring yourself, Ignition also passes on enquiries that come to us directly, so you're not starting from zero.
Ignition Law has a risk committee, an in-house compliance officer, and full professional indemnity insurance for all Ignition work.
Get in touch using the enquiry form below, and we will start a conversation about what consultancy at Ignition Law could look like for you.
How work reaches you
A book of business helps, but it is not a prerequisite. At Ignition Law, your income can come from two directions, not one.
Alongside your own client relationships, we generate work of our own. Enquiries that come directly into Ignition are triaged by practice area and matched to consultants with the capacity to take them on, so you have work to build on from day one.
We cannot promise a guaranteed pipeline – no firm honestly can – but you are not building from zero, and you are not building alone. We have worked with many consultants to build their business and also our own, so we understand what is required
Consultancy on your terms
There is no single blueprint for a career at Ignition Law. Some of our consultants work full-time, others work reduced hours or build a genuine portfolio career, alongside other commitments. You decide what fits your life, not the other way around.
You will decide:
- When and where you work.
- Which clients and matters you take on.
- How you balance your own clients with Ignition Law work.
You are not tied to us exclusively. There is no requirement to work only with Ignition Law, so you are free to build your practice and your career in the way that suits you.
Independent, never isolated
Consultancy should not mean working alone. At Ignition Law, every consultant sits within a practice area team, giving you the support and collaboration of a genuine fee earner network while keeping the freedom to work to your own schedule.
Our collegiate approach is practical and visible: regular practice-area and team meetings, easy access to colleagues for a sounding board, and shared know-how that helps you work efficiently without having to reinvent the wheel. Consultants contribute their own experience too, so expertise flows across the firm rather than sitting in silos.
If you are running a transaction, you are not doing it single-handedly. Paralegals and junior associates are on hand to support senior consultants; the kind of resource you would otherwise lose the moment you leave a traditional firm.
This level of built-in collaboration is unusual among other freelance and consultancy models. It also pays: if you pass work to another fee earner, you earn 10% of that bill once the client pays, so collaboration has a financial upside as well as a practical one.
Remuneration and the consultant model
Our remuneration model is built for consultants, not employees. There is no salary, no fixed benefits package and no capped earnings potential. What you earn reflects the work you do and the clients you bring.
Three ways to grow your income as an Ignition Law consultant:
- Ignition-generated work, paid at an hourly rate and invoiced monthly – regardless of whether client invoices been paid.
- Work you bring in from your own clients, where you keep 60% of the paid bill, rising to 70% once your own billing reaches £100,000 in a year.
- Work you pass to another fee earner, where you earn 10%, paid once the client pays.
Together, that’s more ways to build an income than a traditional practice allows – and far more control over how you do it. You are also fully covered. Ignition Law has a dedicated risk committee, an in-house compliance officer, and full professional indemnity insurance across all Ignition work – the kind of protection you would otherwise have to arrange, and pay for, yourself.
If you’d like to find out more about what your practice at Ignition Law could look like, visit our Earnings Calculator.
Everything you need to succeed
Running your own practice usually means running your own back office too. At Ignition Law, we take on the administrative tasks that would typically fall to a sole practitioner running their own practice, so you can focus on your clients.
- Flexibility over how and where you work.
- Support with client onboarding, billing and fee chasing.
- Access to paralegal, operational, finance, risk and compliance support.
- Collaborative culture and access to experienced colleagues.
- Opportunities to receive work through Ignition.
- Referral opportunities and transparent commercial arrangements, subject to internal approval.
- B Corp accreditation and strong ethical values.
- Social events, networking and annual off-sites.
- Supportive environment for long-term consultancy growth.
Our B Corp Commitment
Ignition Law is one of a small number of B Corp certified law firms in the UK. B Corp certification means we have met independently verified standards of social and environmental performance, accountability and transparency. It shapes how we run the firm day to day, not just how we describe it.
Awards and Nominations
Our work with entrepreneurs and growth businesses has been recognised across the legal and business awards calendar. These nominations reflect the same approach to client work you would experience working with us, whether as a client or as a consultant.
Work with ambitious clients
At Ignition, you’ll work alongside founders, entrepreneurs and business leaders who are building, scaling and transforming remarkable businesses. From fast-growth start-ups to established organisations, our clients value practical advice, commercial thinking and trusted relationships.
Here’s what some of them say about working with us:
“We wanted a start-up-friendly law firm that understood both where we were and where we hoped to go.”
“We received practical and dependable advice from people we could trust.”
“It’s the willingness to engage with what we’re actually building, not just the legal task in front of them, that stands out.”
Discover the founders, innovators and business leaders featured in our Igniting the Spark interview series and learn about the challenges, successes and lessons that have shaped their journeys.
Community & Partnerships
Ignition engages with the community at a local and wider level. We support many of the entrepreneurial businesses we work with and use our extensive network to help our clients with issues that range beyond the legal advice we give.
People and projects we’ve worked with
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