Terms and Conditions Lawyer Services
Standard terms and conditions can be an essential asset for businesses, helping to protect them when entering into a sale or purchase of goods or services. JMW Solicitors has the expertise to help your organisation draft or review its terms and conditions, to make sure they best reflect your specific needs whether that is for one-off transactions or for longer-term relationships.
Our commercial law team will provide practical advice that takes the requirements of your business into account, allowing you to create standard terms of service that are clear, comprehensive and responsive to the most common risks.
To speak to our terms and conditions solicitors, call JMW today by calling 0345 872 6666, or fill in our online contact form to request a call back at your convenience.
How JMW Can Help
Tailoring your terms and conditions to ensure they safeguard your business as thoroughly as possible can be a complex process. It is essential that you seek expert help to ensure everything is completed correctly and that your standard terms and conditions are fit for purpose.
JMW’s commercial law team will help you tailor your terms and conditions in the following ways:
- Ensure they offer maximum protection for you and your business
- Ensure they accurately reflect the processes that you use
- Provide legal recourse for your organisation if things go wrong
Too often, terms and conditions are tucked away on the back page of purchase orders or order forms, and are written without giving enough consideration to how they apply to the contract, or how accurately they reflect how you trade with your customers or suppliers.
Our experienced terms and conditions solicitors provide practical advice on drafting your terms of service, ensuring they are well-tailored to the needs of your business. We will also work with you to review standard terms and conditions that other parties may provide, helping you identify key clauses that may expose your business to risk, and working with you to negotiate amendments that will remove these risk factors.
What Standard Terms and Conditions Should Include
Terms and conditions can cover a number of areas, depending on the nature of the product or service in question. However, standard terms and conditions generally include:
- Pricing information and terms of payment
- Credit limits, terms and periods
- Details of the services or goods to be provided
- Information on interest to be paid on late payments
- Data protection arrangements
- Delivery arrangements (where relevant)
The aim of these terms and conditions should be to provide all parties involved in a transaction with clarity and certainty about their respective rights and responsibilities, while minimising the chances of a dispute.
Why Choose JMW?
When you contact our commercial law team, we will work to understand your business’ situation, needs and goals. This will help us to form the best plan for your terms and conditions, ensuring that they consider all angles of the process and law and help you meet or exceed your objectives. Our terms and conditions solicitors work closely with our clients and maintain contact throughout the process to ensure the resulting documentation perfectly meets your organisation’s requirements.
JMW has been ranked by the Legal 500 as one of the top law firms in the country. Thanks to the successes and experience of our commercial law team, we have built a strong reputation as reliable business law experts. Our team uses its up-to-date knowledge and understanding of commercial contracts and governing law to identify opportunities that may help your business and support its long-term goals.
FAQs About Our Terms and Conditions Lawyer Services
- Why are terms and conditions important?
Applying terms and conditions to your business transactions will set clear expectations and ensure that all parties uphold their obligations in the deal. Terms and conditions agreements are legally binding documents that will leave a party liable for any requirements that they do not meet, offering both parties the confidence that their needs will be met.
- Does a contract have to be in writing?
Contract terms can be agreed verbally, but this carries significant risk. Any verbal agreement will rely on witnesses to validate it and ensure both sides meet their obligations. We recommend that you make a legal contract or set out standard terms and conditions in writing to reduce the risk of the other party failing to meet its obligations. A written agreement will enable you to more easily pursue legal action should the other party breach the terms.
- What are the risks of not using terms and conditions?
If you do not employ terms and conditions, or do not make them specific and relevant to the requirements of your business, the main issues you may face include:
- Other parties misunderstanding agreements
- Late payments and money wasted on debt collection
- The bending of language used in oral agreements
- Exploitation of loopholes
Talk to Us
Speak to our expert commercial law team about your business’ terms and conditions today by calling us on 0345 872 6666, or allow us to get in touch with you at your convenience by filling in our online enquiry form.
