Where to start
Ten reasons people call Haq. Start with the one closest to you
Pick the one closest to what you are facing. Each tells you when it applies, what to send, and how we take it from there.
Agreements
You will not sign anything we have not read
Send us the draft. We tell you what it really commits you to, where it can hurt you later, and exactly what to change before you sign. In plain Arabic or English, before you have spent anything.
A contract is in front of you, or one you already signed has come back on you.
We read it the way the other side will read it, and mark every line that can cost you.
The draft, anything attached to it, and the date you have to answer by.
Agreements
We write it around the deal you actually made
Most disputes come out of what nobody wrote down. We get the assumptions out of your head and into the document, so the agreement still protects you when the relationship is under strain.
You have shaken hands on something and want it made real.
We turn what you agreed into terms that hold, including what happens if it goes wrong.
Who is involved, what you agreed, and anything already in writing between you.
Companies
We build the company so it still holds in ten years
Getting registered is the easy part. We set ownership, control and signing authority so the company survives new partners, new money and the arguments nobody plans for.
You are starting a company, or bringing someone new into one.
We settle who owns it, who runs it and who can sign, and put all three beyond argument.
Who is involved, what the business will do, and how you want it run.
Employment
We make the decision safe before you take it
Hiring someone, changing a role, ending one: each is a decision that can be challenged later. We check it before you act, so the step you take is the step that holds.
You are about to hire, promote, discipline or let someone go.
We check what you are allowed to do, and how to do it so it cannot be turned back on you.
The contract, whatever workplace rules apply, and what you are planning.
Brand
We secure the name you are building everything on
A name you cannot defend is a name you can lose after years of work. We register the mark that actually protects the business, in the classes that matter, before somebody else gets there.
You are choosing a name, or you have been trading under one without protecting it.
We check the name is free, then register it so it belongs to you.
The name or the logo, and what you sell under it.
Before you grow
We find what can hurt the business before it does
This is not an audit of everything you own. We look at what you are about to do next, find the legal weak points standing in the way, and tell you which one to fix first.
You are about to expand, raise money, or change how the business runs.
We find the gaps that could stop your next move, and put them in order.
What you want to do next, and your main company papers.
When you are owed
Someone owes you. We go and get it
We build the case for your money first, then move, so when we ask we ask from a position they cannot argue with. Most of it never has to reach a courtroom.
You are owed money and the polite reminders have stopped working.
We prove the debt, then press it, in the order most likely to get you paid.
Who owes you, how much, and everything you have in writing about it.
Property
Nobody takes your money until we know it is safe
Before a deposit leaves your hand we check who really owns it, what is registered against it, and what you are actually signing. It costs a fraction of what the mistake costs.
You are about to buy, rent, or put money into property.
We check the ownership and the paperwork and tell you plainly whether to go ahead.
The property, the seller, and whatever papers you have been shown.
Family
We settle it without the family breaking over it
An inheritance is a legal question wrapped inside a family one, and it arrives at the worst possible time. We carry both, so what is yours reaches you and everyone is still speaking afterwards.
Someone has died, or a family arrangement has to be decided.
We work out what each person is owed, and get it done with as little heat as possible.
Who is involved, and what has been left.
Every week
A lawyer who already knows your business, on the phone
No starting from the beginning every time. The everyday questions get answered the same day, by someone who already knows how your company works and what you are trying to do.
Legal questions come up most weeks and you have nobody to ask.
We stay across the business, so the answer comes back fast and it is right.
The kind of questions that keep coming up.
Not sure which one
If it crosses more than one of these, just tell us what happened
Say who is involved, what happened and what is coming up. You do not have to sort it into the right category first. That is our job.