For principals winding down a practice
Closing your practice? Your business clients have a home.
We take on your business clients and pay you a share of every fee they pay us. We handle the emails, the consent and the files.
- A share of every fee, paid quarterly
- Business clients only. Everything else stays with you
- Digitisation and onboarding at our cost
100,000+ businesses helped
4.9(300+ reviews)
Winner of 50+ industry awards
Request the succession pack
The commission terms, the client email template and the timeline. We call within one business day.
The deal, in three lines
Paid on every fee
You earn a share of what each transferred client pays us, paid quarterly, for as long as the arrangement runs. Terms are in the pack.
Business clients only
Companies, sole traders, partnerships and trading trusts. No conveyancing, litigation, family, wills or safe custody.
Consent, or nothing
Every client gets a co-signed email and decides. A no costs neither of us anything.
How it runs
Usually inside a quarter. You introduce us. We do the rest.
- 1
A 20-minute call
You describe the client base and your timing. We send the pack with the commission terms.
- 2
Sign a short agreement
Which clients, your share, how and when it is paid.
- 3
Your clients choose
The co-signed email goes out with a consent link. We collect and digitise the files of those who say yes.
- 4
You get paid as they use us
A quarterly statement and payment covering every fee those clients paid. They get a fixed-fee firm, a legal health check and a year of membership.
The email every client receives. Co-signed, plain English, explicit about your share.
Against the other ways out
Sell through a broker
- Time
- 6 to 18 months, then a handover period
- You receive
- A negotiated price, discounted at due diligence
- Admin
- You, your staff, the buyer's team
- Ongoing tie
- Handover, restraint, sometimes consultancy
- Your clients
- Inherit whoever buys
Close and refer
- Time
- Immediate
- You receive
- Nothing
- Admin
- You
- Ongoing tie
- None
- Your clients
- Find a lawyer on their own
Transition to Sprintlaw
- Time
- Emails out within weeks
- You receive
- A share of every fee those clients pay us
- Admin
- Us
- Ongoing tie
- 60 days on call
- Your clients
- Choose, in writing
Why your clients will say yes
Fixed fees, quoted up front
No hourly billing. Every matter is scoped and priced before work starts.
Their documents in one place
The files you hand over go onto their own account.
A legal health check on arrival
A lawyer flags what is out of date and what matters this year.
Twelve months of membership, on us
Ongoing access to lawyers and reminders on key dates.
100,000+
businesses helped
4.9
Google rating, 300+ reviews
Winner of 50+ industry awards
The lawyers your clients will deal with
Embeth Sadie
Head of Legal
Angus Crawford
Senior Lawyer
Tomoyuki Hachigo
Co-Founder
What stays with you
Better said now than in the agreement. Your state Law Society publishes a practice closure checklist. Happy to walk through it on the call.
Trust account
Reconciliation, closure and the external examiner's report. We never touch trust money.
Safe custody
Wills, deeds and titles held for clients stay yours to return or transfer.
Non-business files
Conveyancing, litigation, family and estate matters need a home elsewhere. We can suggest firms.
Regulatory notices
Notifying your Law Society, run-off insurance and closing your practising entity.
Questions principals ask first
No. We do not buy the entity, the premises, the staff or the non-business files. Consenting business clients move to us and you earn a share of what they pay. You keep your entity and close it yourself.
A share of every fee each transferred client pays us, paid quarterly with a statement, for the term in the agreement. Nothing to value, nothing up front, and it keeps paying while they keep using us. The percentage and term are in the pack. Confirm the tax treatment with your accountant.
A trading business you have acted for on commercial matters: contracts, leases, employment, structuring, IP, compliance. Companies, sole traders, partnerships and trading trusts. Dormant entities and one-off matters are usually out of scope. We confirm the list with you before any email goes out.
Each client gets an email co-signed by you and us. It says you are winding down, what Sprintlaw is, and that you receive a share of their fees. They consent through a short online form. Files move only after that, and the consent sits on their file.
The payment to you is disclosed to each client in writing before we accept instructions, and each client's consent is recorded. That is what the Australian Solicitors' Conduct Rules require where a solicitor receives a financial benefit for an introduction. Our legal team checks the email and the agreement before anything is sent.
Nothing changes. They stay your client and their file stays with you.
We do not take on employees. If you want to keep a hand in, or your lawyers do, apply to join our contractor network and take fixed-fee work through our platform on your own terms.
Across Australia. New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland and Western Australia first, the remaining states following.
Only the small team assessing the transition. We do not ask for client details until an agreement is signed, and no client hears from us until you have approved the email.
Talk to us before you tell your clients.
Alex Solo, Co-Founder. The order matters: a co-signed email lands very differently from a note saying the office is closing.