Business Advice & Employment Disputes
Welcome to our Business Advice and Employment Disputes section at Lezemore Solicitors. Running a business brings enough challenges without getting tangled in legal paperwork or disputes. We provide clear, practical advice in plain English to help Hertfordshire and Essex businesses stay compliant, protect their interests, and resolve problems quickly and cost-effectively.
Whether you need supplier or customer contracts, up-to-date policies, or help dealing with a difficult customer, supplier, or employee, we tailor everything to your business size and sector. Early advice often prevents small issues from becoming expensive ones.
Business Advice
We help business owners and directors with the day-to-day legal documents and commercial issues that keep your operations running smoothly.
Key areas we cover include:
- Drafting and reviewing terms and conditions for sales or services – both face-to-face (in-store or on-site) and distance selling (online, phone, or email orders). We make sure they are fair, compliant with the Consumer Rights Act and distance selling rules, and protect your business
- Website terms and conditions, privacy policies, and cookie policies – fully compliant with UK GDPR and the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations. We also advise on data protection policies and website accessibility
- Commercial contracts with customers/suppliers/contractors/consultants
- Handling disputes with customers or suppliers – unpaid invoices, faulty goods, delayed deliveries, or contract breaches. We can negotiate settlements, send formal letters, or pursue debt recovery where needed
- Contractor disputes – we can assist with any disputes you have with consultants or sub-contractors
- ID2 forms - Certificate of identity for a corporate body for Land Registry applications, property transactions.
Most businesses we help are small to medium-sized and simply want documents that are easy to understand, legally sound, and commercially sensible. We can draft everything from scratch or review and update your existing ones – and we undertake most drafting on a fixed-fee basis agreed in advance.
Contact J L Lezemore Solicitors covering Hertfordshire and Essex
Need business or employment support?
Get in touch today for straightforward, practical advice. We offer flexible appointments (including evenings and weekends where possible) across Hertfordshire and Essex.
Whether you need new terms and conditions, a staff handbook, or help with a dispute, the earlier you contact us, the easier it usually is to sort things out. We look forward to helping your business.
Please visit our contact page for more information.
Employment Advice for Employers
We support business owners and HR managers with all aspects of employing staff – from recruitment to exit. Our aim is to help you stay on the right side of the law, reduce risk, and deal with any issues fairly and efficiently.
The Employment Rights Act 2025 has already introduced several important changes that affect employers. The key changes now in force (as of 15 April 2026) include those listed in our Employee section plus new compliance duties for businesses, such as the launch of the Fair Work Agency as the single enforcement body for employment rights.
Common issues we help employers with include:
- Drafting and updating employment contracts and service agreements that protect your business while complying with current law
- Preparing or reviewing staff handbooks, policies and procedures (disciplinary, grievance, equality & diversity, flexible working, sickness absence, anti-harassment, etc.)
- Handling grievances, disciplinaries, performance management, and dismissals
- Defending employment tribunal claims (unfair dismissal, discrimination, whistleblowing, etc.)
- Advice on settlement agreements and protected conversations
- Compliance with the latest changes under the Employment Rights Act 2025, including the new rules on sick pay, day-one leave rights, and sexual harassment prevention
What’s coming in the next year
Further changes are on the way that will affect employers (see the full list in our Employee section). In particular, you will need to prepare for the reduction in the unfair dismissal qualifying period to six months, removal of the compensation cap, stronger sexual harassment duties, new trade union rights and the Fair Rights Agency.
