There are four ways you can earn with the Legal Studio model:
- The fees from the work you deliver
- The clients you introduce
- The consultants you bring into the firm
- The long-term growth of the platform through growth shares and preference shares
You decide how much you work, how quickly you grow and how involved you want to be in the bigger picture.
Curious about how this could work for you?
Try our earnings calculator and see what your future could look like.
Fee Share Model Explained
Most lawyers join Legal Studio after years of being paid through salary, drawings or partnership arrangements, where income is largely determined by someone else.
The consultancy model is different. You earn a transparent share of the fees from the work you do and the clients you bring.
Where you introduce the client and deliver the work, you retain 75% of the fees billed and received.
The remaining 25% funds the regulated platform that supports you day to day - including professional indemnity insurance, compliance oversight, case management systems, branding, infrastructure and operational support.
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As your practice grows, your fee share can increase through a clear ratchet structure - this is available to you, but it is never imposed as any kind of target.
If you would like to understand how this consultancy fee share model might work in practice, you can use our earnings calculator.
Shared Work and Referrals
Collaboration is built into the Legal Studio model.
Sometimes you introduce the client and deliver the work.
Sometimes you deliver work introduced by another consultant.
Sometimes you introduce work that sits outside your own specialism.
The fee structure reflects this clearly and transparently:
- Deliver work introduced by another consultant - you receive 60% of the fees billed and received
- Introduce a client whose work is delivered by another consultant - you receive a 15% referral share
- Introduce and deliver the work yourself - you receive 75%
The intention is that everyone is recognised for the part they play, and there are no hidden negotiations behind the scenes.
Introducing New Consultants
Legal Studio grows through reputation and referral.
If you introduce a lawyer who joins the platform and goes on to bill work, you receive 5% of their fees for their first year.
This is not a sales incentive. It is meant as recognition to reflect the value of helping the firm grow with the right people.
Being Part of the Bigger Picture
Fee share rewards the work you do today. Our Growth shares recognise the value you help create over time.
Legal Studio is not just a place to practise law; it is a platform being built deliberately and sustainably. Growth shares give qualifying consultants and employees the opportunity to participate in the future capital value of the business.
They are allocated according to measurable contribution rather than hierarchy or job title.
If the business grows and is ever sold, growth shareholders participate in the value created above the agreed starting valuation.
Funded by its supporters
Some consultants want to go a step further and support the firm financially as well as operationally.
Preference shares provide that option.
They allow individuals to invest directly in Legal Studio in exchange for a defined annual return, while helping the firm fund growth internally rather than relying on external investors.
A Fairer Way to Work
Traditional law firms often concentrate value at the top of the structure. Legal Studio is built differently. Our consultancy model is designed so that experienced lawyers retain more of what they earn, operate with autonomy and, if they choose, participate in the long-term growth of the business.
There are no targets, no forced business development initiatives and no artificial hierarchy.
You build your practice your way, supported by a regulated platform that exists to make that possible.
