Using cutting-edge technology, Nelsons is now offering over 200 customisable legal documents online, giving clients the ability to access legal support from a firm they know and can trust anywhere and at anytime, night or day.

The first East Midlands’ law firm to offer a comprehensive online legal service for businesses and individuals, Nelsons has developed www.nelsonsonline.co.uk in partnership with award-winning technology provider Epoq.

An established and trusted provider for many of the world’s leading financial institutions, including NatWest, Halifax and MORE TH>N, Epoq’s unrivalled intelligent legal document services are currently accessed by over 6 million customers. Combining Epoq’s sophisticated Rapidocs automated documents and forms technology with the legal expertise of a regional heavyweight law firm, nelsonsonline is pushing the boundaries and setting a new standard in the region for the widespread provision of accessible legal services.

Tim Hastings, chief executive at Nelsons, comments: “By combining the ease of Epoq’s online technology with our legal expertise, we can offer our clients a greater, more flexible range of services and self-serve products, as well as engaging with the growing generation of IT literate clients who have come to expect internet delivery as the norm, with all the benefits of ease of contact, immediacy and cost effectiveness.”

With nelsonsonline, clients are assured they will receive all the expert advice, assistance and legal tailoring they can expect from a leading regional law firm, all at lower fixed fees than the firm’s in-office service.

There is helpful step-by-step guidance, making the documents simple and quick to create, and easy-to-understand Law Guides which tell clients what they need to know about the law.

Some of the documents are ready for immediate use, and many include a legal review by one of Nelsons’ lawyers who will fully check and amend the document if necessary. After purchase, documents are securely stored on the website for clients’ future access and reference.

Clients can try documents at any time and without obligation, and there’s a two-minute tour on the site which will guide them through the process the first time they visit, so they can see just how easy and convenient it is.

Documents and letters to help solve a range of everyday business and personal legal issues are available to buy, including:

Business services:

Business Start-up - information and documents to help get a business up and running, including partner and shareholder agreements, and terms & conditions

Debts & Debt Recovery – includes debt collection letters for unpaid invoices, before action letters and forms for making an application to the county court to recover money owed, as well as a Debt-pack to help businesses in debt demonstrate to their creditors a willingness to pay

Ecommerce – everything needed to run an Ecommerce website, from domain name transfer agreements to privacy policies and terms & conditions for a website selling consumer goods or services
Employment – a comprehensive range of documents in relation to hiring staff, employment contracts, sickness and absence, and disciplinary and dismissal procedures, as well as a 'Employee Handbook' setting out all the non-contractual issues relating to employment

Health & Safety - provides information on a range of subjects from workplace regulations to creating a health and safety policy

Intellectual Property – everything to help a business manage and protect its intellectual property, covering trademarks, licence agreements and non disclosure agreements and copyright

Property - information and documents to prepare a lease or license for commercial properties, as well as helping to manage any residential property which is rented out

Purchase & Sales Agreements - information and documents to help set up key business trading agreements
Personal services:

Building Work – how to manage the relationship with a builder

Buying & Selling – from selling a car to solving problems with items clients have bought

Complaints & Disputes – from dealing with neighbour disputes to making a complaint to a bank, utility company or local restaurant

Divorce – a comprehensive pack to enable completion of a divorce
Identity Theft & Credit Improvement – essential for those that have been the victim of identity theft

Landlord & Tenancy Agreements – how to manage the property a client rents out, including if they need to evict an existing tenant or put a new tenancy agreement in place

Motoring – everything to help clients through their motoring life, from selling a car to challenging speeding or parking tickets

Personal Finance – how to improve a client’s credit rating as well as managing creditors if in debt

Powers of Attorney – everything needed to get a power of attorney in place today

Prenuptials & Living Together – essential agreements including those for civil partnerships

Wills & Probate – all that’s needed to make a will, amend an existing will, put together a living will, or deal with probate and trusts

Workplace – documents to help an individual through his or her working life, including a CV writer

One of the largest independent law firms in the region, Nelsons has 32 partners and over 200 staff across its three offices in Nottingham, Derby and Leicester.