HR Legal Service, HR magazine’s employment law offer, is to be delivered by one of the first HR consultancy companies to be granted alternative business structure status in the legal field when ESP Law launches next week.
ESP Law, an independent law firm that forms part of the ESP Group of companies, is regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority and has been created as a result of the Legal Service Act, introduced in 2011. The launch of ESP law helps break the monopoly on providing specialist employment legal advice, loosening the grip traditional law firms have had over HR departments and their budgets.
The launch on 7 September enables HR Legal Service to offer HR professionals highly specialist employment law advice integrated with access to an online HR resources web portal for a competitive fixed fee/subscription price.
“This allows customers to reduce their legal spend with traditional law firms for more complex matters; fix their budget for unlimited advice and save considerable management time,” explained Peter Byrne, managing director of ESP Law.
“It has always been a passion of our business to try and create a very different kind of law firm, where outstanding customer service – aligned to delivering commercial and options based specialist legal advice to HR, business and finance professionals – sits at the very heart of the business. Our aim every day is simple – to ensure we deliver a truly personal and exceptional service to our customers.”
HR magazine chose ESP as its employment law partner as a result of its commercially-focused and business pragmatic approach to advice, exceptional service delivery and the fact customers are given a personal and dedicated team of employment solicitors and legal advisors. It also has a user friendly HR resources web portal stacked with best practice document precedents, HR toolkits; detailed guidance notes; facts sheets, policies and procedures.
Since its launch, HR Legal Service has saved its readers significant revenue. For example, one customer saved more than £100,000 in one year alone, enabling it to increase investment in a crucial employee relations (ER) tracker system to enable greater visibility on all ER issues across the business, reintroduce an occupational health programme that was a budget casualty in 2013, increase investment in an e-learning platform and other key learning and development initiatives.
“We have been delighted with our partnership with ESP, which has helped HR magazine’s readers save time and money on employment law, releasing them to concentrate on adding value to their businesses,” said HR magazine publisher Siân Harrington.
“The launch of ESP Law as an alternative business structure underlines our commitment of partnering with companies that deliver a real difference to our HR director readers through innovative, customer centric and future proofed business models. HR Legal Service helps our readers deliver operational efficiencies and focus their energies on business critical strategic activities, enabling them to make a serious commercial difference to their organisation.”
HR Legal Service can offer a range of services including specialist employment law advisory services; a unique online employment law and HR resources proposition; HR system administration solutions and employment law and HR training and e-learning services. For more information please go to www.hrlegalservice.co.uk
