New Business Clinic offers free Law advice to regional SMEs
University of East Anglia (UEA) have recently launched the UEA Business Clinic, a new service set up by UEA Law Clinic to provide free advice to SMEs in Norfolk and Suffolk. The Clinic brings together experts from within UEA, from law firm Birketts LLP, and from business support organisation Menta.
Once per month, the clinic will run a day of advice sessions where SME owners and managers can come to the UEA Law Clinic for some individual help and advice on issues that are troubling them. Meetings are by appointment only and last approximately 45 minutes each.
Advisors can offer support on a wide range of legal and practical issues affecting SMEs, drawing on our team’s wide range of expertise.
As this is part of the UEA Law Clinic, students will be present at the meeting and help to run the service. This gives them valuable experience of real world business concerns and enables us to help more clients.
The meeting will be free of charge. Some advisors may charge for undertaking further work. However, they will discuss with you what your options are.
Some of the key areas the Clinic can support with;
Some of the items they can support with include:
- Terms and conditions
- Problems with a supplier or another business
- Business survival or restructuring
- Expansion or business direction/growth/products/services
- Grants and funding
- Operations, quality, customer satisfaction, costs, service delivery issues
- Business integration
- Resolving disputes in the workplace
- Intellectual property
- Employment law
- Supply chain issues
- Debts
- Among other things