2025 is the Year to use Legal Outsourcing Services to Outsource Your Contract Review

With the new Employment Bill and rising national insurance contributions hitting businesses in 2025, now more than ever is the time to rethink your overheads. Legal outsourcing services, such as contract reviews means you can stay compliant with internal policies and regulations, reduce both commercial and legal risks, and avoid the cost and complexity of hiring in-house – all while staying agile in a tougher economic landscape.

Legal risk doesn’t just always mean lawsuits or regulatory investigations. It’s often the quiet stuff:

• Missed renewal deadlines leaving your business tied into paying for services it may not need
• Unclear liability clauses that expose your business to financial loss should the wrong things happen
• Contract terms that don’t reflect the deal that has been struct which leads to disputes later on
• One-sided supplier agreements that put onerous obligations on your business and give you reduced rights

These risks usually live in the fine print of commercial contracts, and that’s where expert legal eyes — provided through legal outsourcing services — can make all the difference.

Rising Employer Costs and Regulatory Burdens

In 2025, UK employers are facing above-inflation increases in National Insurance contributions, alongside rising minimum wage and pressures on inflation continuing to raise salaries across the board. This pressure makes it a more compelling option to outsource to legal outsourcing services providers who can carry out work at a lower cost than hiring a permanent team member — especially once you factor in holidays, training, and admin time. The flexible terms offered by outsourcing providers also mean services can be scaled up or down based on workload and budget.

At the same time, the Employment Rights Bill is introducing sweeping changes, including:

• A proposed day-one right to unfair dismissal protection
• Expanded obligations around collective redundancy consultation
• New statutory rights like neonatal care leave

These changes increase the administrative and legal burden on in-house teams, making it a simpler option to outsource routine contract review rather than look to expand internal teams.

A New Way to Do Law: Outsourced Contract Review

Instead of building a legal department or paying high hourly rates to large law firms, many businesses are now partnering with us to review and negotiate:

• Commercial contracts of all types – from supplier agreements to software licences and T&Cs
• Data processing agreements, SCCs and website terms & privacy policies and all other GDPR related contracts and clauses
• Transaction ancillary agreements like NDAs, report release letters, legal opinions, engagement letters

The wide range of lawyers in our team means that legal teams don’t need to have specialists or struggle to cover wide areas of law – legal teams can instead focus on the higher risk matters, and outsource work across a range of commercial areas to our team of lawyers who understand the market and the contractual terms and who can negotiate agreements that are fit for purpose but to an agreed timescale and cost.

We’re the Legal Team You Don’t Have to Hire

Our team at In-house legal solutions are equipped for businesses that require reliable, high-quality contract support without hiring a full-time legal team. Our in-house solicitors, in-house trainees and paralegals review the types of commercial contracts typically handled by in-house counsel or top-tier firms where we can ensure fast turnaround times, clear communication, and cost-efficient pricing.

We can also access AI tools that legal teams and businesses may not have budget to leverage off, meaning our clients benefit from reduced turnaround times and lower per document review costs, softening the blow of them not being able to access them directly themselves.

Advantages of partnering with IHLS

• Flexible, expert legal support when you need it
• A scalable model — whether you need help with ten contracts a month or a hundred.
• Cost-effective for your business

It’s the protection and peace of mind you’d expect from a legal department, without the fixed cost or complexity. You pay only for the support you need, when you need it. No overhead, no employment obligations, no holiday cover to worry about. We have a wide range of services, tailored to the needs of your business. Find out more about how we can help here Services Archive – In-House Legal Solutions.