egos® – legal services and more
focusing on the IT industry since 1994
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the solution!
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Advice & Negotiation
Advice: as and when you need it, in relation to all aspects of
contractual relationships – before, during, and afterwards.
Negotiation: maybe you just want a little guidance or a second opinion on how to handle a negotiation yourself? Maybe you're looking for someone to handle a negotiation for you? Or maybe even you've started yourself and now feel you may be a little out of your depth (it does happen)? Whichever it is, the chances are that our extensive experience in this field can help.
See also:
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Drafting
Drafting
of all types of legal contracts and other documents, as and when you need them.
A selection from the types of documents we draft Wherever it is practicable and safe to do so, the documents we produce for you will be ‘recyclable’, and capable of reuse in similar future situations.
Whilst we have an extensive library of precedents to use as starting points for many situations, we also specialise in drafting the less usual from scratch, See also Wills
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Disputes
Planning to avoid them;
helping to resolve them
Advice and assistance in
relation to all types of contractual disputes.
Are you a Contractor/Consultant in dispute with an
Agency?- Are you a Client having a problem with a software house? Our extensive experience (36 years 'in the law', the last
15 specialising in the IT field) means that we can help with these and very
many other types of dispute.
If a dispute is on the horizon, it generally follows that
the sooner you get advice, the better - and the better the chances of it being
successfully defused. See also War stories |
Contract
Legal Services for Consultants, Contractors, and Developers in the Computer & IT Industries
Legal
Services for Contractors, Freelancers, and Performers in the Entertainment
& Media Industries Legal Services for Agencies in the Computer and IT Industries Legal Services for Business Past Freelance informer legal articles by egos |
Commercial law, Copyright & Trade Marks
Copyright, Trade
Marks ,
and other Intellectual Property Protecting your commercial software Employment Joint Ventures (now
includes LLPs, PPPs, and 'Teaming' arrangements) Secrecy and Non-Disclosure Agreements
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Taxation & IR35
For the
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Fast
Where practicable we try to deal with straightforward matters within 1
business day. The more complex may
take a little longer…but we will do our best!
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Personal
We regard it as one of our strengths that
we are small and personal – most of the time when you call you will
expect to get directly through to Roger Sinclair, and your dealings will
generally be direct with him
Contact
Details & Availability
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Value for money
We expect to develop ongoing relations with our clients, and to help as
their businesses grow.
A large proportion come back to us the next time they have a
problem – and recommend others to us.
Where we can predict the workload sufficiently precisely
to be able to offer a fixed price, we will do so. At present, fixed price products offered
include IR35 opinion on contract; pre-signing
contract revision service (commercial and IR35 angles). Major credit cards accepted |
News
14th February 2008: HMRC announce a
new initiative on abuse of dispensations
IR35 & employment
status cases
Other recent cases
Recent statutes, regulations, and cases affecting
the IT industry – including
Umbrella and Management Companies
Managed Service Companies 2007
s660A -
Arctic appeal decision - see our s660A page
Agency
regulations 2003
Privacy
& Electronic communications regulations 2003 Distance Selling
Regulations 2000 What’s new on this website |
Links
Links to other
Websites you might like to visit.
Mail
us if you want to set up a reciprocal link. Legal funnies (you have to be a bit sad to enjoy them… |
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Our services:
Egos Ltd is a Consultancy, specialising in Commercial
law - particularly Contract & Intellectual Property, and focusing on the
IT, and the Entertainment and Media industries.
Our business has been focused on this area since 1994,
and over the course of the past 15 years we have considered the contract terms
of well over 200 agencies; our client-base includes well over 1,000 contractors
and more than 30 agencies and consultancies (ranging from new start-ups to the
long-established), together with numerous software houses, resellers, and other
IT-related businesses.
As “egos”,
we wrote a regular legal page in Freelance Informer, a magazine which
has a large readership amongst Computer Contractors, from early 1996 until the
magazine’s closure in late 2001. The archive of these articles (over 140)
contains a wealth of advice on a variety of issues affecting IT contractors and
can be viewed here.
As a result, we therefore have a very broad
experience, both of the nature of such contracts and the relationships they
govern, and of the wide variety of things which can go wrong - the consequences
of many of which could be have been avoided by suitable contract terms.
We believe our extensive experience gives us an
excellent overview, and we regard ourselves as very closely in tune with the
realities faced by those working within these industries.
Work is generally handled by e-mail, telephone, and
fax.
We neither accept nor pay commission – so if you
are recommended to us, you will know it’s because of our reputation; and if we recommend someone
else to you, you’ll know it’s not because we stand to gain in some hidden way
from doing so. May be a quaint way to do
business, but it’s how we like to be dealt with ourselves.
We hold £1m Professional Indemnity insurance cover -
although we don't expect to have to use it!
Personal
Profile:
Roger Sinclair:
"With a general scientific background, I
qualified as a solicitor in 1976. I practised as the principal/senior partner
of my own firm of solicitors from 1978 until 1994, employing a staff of up to
40.
Highly 'technologically aware', I developed advanced computerised
systems for the handling of high volume contract-based legal work, and as a
result won contracts with major public companies in the consumer credit sector.
I was an early member of Clarity (founded for the
promotion of Plain English in legal documents).
I was elected a Fellow of the
During my time in practice as a solicitor, I gained
extensive experience of Contract, Commercial, and Intellectual Property law, in
addition to a thorough awareness of the commercial realities of the business
world, through carrying the responsibilities of managing my own business.
In 1994 I ceased general legal practice as a
solicitor, and since that time I have specialised in Contract, Intellectual
Property, and Employment Law and related issues, generally using e-mail as the
preferred means of communication.
This move breathed fresh life into my career, and I
can honestly say that I love what I do, and find it easy to establish mutual
respect with the clients I encounter – many of whom become friends.
I'm also a member of the Society for Computers and Law, and of the TRUST group (an association of
consultants) (you'll also find a links to these sites on my 'links' page)
I'm particularly interested in making practical
knowledge of the law accessible and intelligible to non-lawyers.
The law affects us all, and most of us have some
degree of genuine interest in it. It's my experience that people want to know
about the law - it concerns them, it affects them, and quite frankly it belongs
to them.
The law governs their lives, the law deems them to
know all about it, and they have a right to know!
For this reason, I firmly believe Legal documents
should be straightforward and understandable."
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office Suite 3B2 Northside House, Mount Pleasant, Barnet EN4 9EB is licensed to
use the registered trade mark egos in connection with the provision of
services within UK. RS Legal Ltd provides services primarily to
consultancies, umbrellas, agencies, and other corporate entities. Office
address: Bassett Business Centre, Hurricane Way, North Weald, Essex CM16
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should not act or rely on this information without seeking professional advice.
No liability is accepted therefore for any errors, or for any losses that may
be incurred if it is relied on.
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