Legal support that moves at the speed of your business
We provide fractional legal support designed to help life sciences organisations scale their in-house legal function. With experienced, industry-specific support across capacity, capability and delivery, we help you manage risk, support growth and operate with confidence.
We support life sciences organisations to strengthen and scale in-house legal teams.
Legal teams are under increasing pressure to support business growth, manage risk and navigate an evolving regulatory landscape, often with limited internal resource.
LS Law provides flexible, industry-specific legal support that ensures your team can operate effectively, make confident decisions and deliver against business objectives without compromising on legal oversight.
Legal support resources for pharma, biotech in-house teams
We create practical, experience-led resources for in-house legal professionals navigating complex and fast-moving environments. Shaped by former General Counsel, our insights focus on real-world challenges, from managing workload and scaling legal support to operating effectively in highly regulated markets. Alongside our legal support diagnostic, webinars and targeted updates, LS Law helps teams identify gaps, stay ahead and make confident, business-aligned decisions.
LS Law supports life sciences organisations through a structured fractional legal framework built around Capacity →Capability → Delivery. By strengthening these three core areas, we help in-house legal teams remain responsive, access the right expertise and deliver practical, business-aligned support. This approach ensures legal functions can manage risk effectively, support growth and operate with confidence in complex, highly regulated environments.
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Step 1: Capacity
Step 2: Capability
Step 3: Delivery
Step 1: Capacity
The first component of an effective legal support framework is capacity. Ensuring the legal function has sufficient resource in place enables it to keep pace with business demand, respond to competing priorities and avoid becoming a bottleneck to decision-making.
LS Law provides experienced legal professionals who can step into organisations at short notice to support increased workload or cover temporary gaps. Whether due to headcount freezes, leave or growth, this flexible model ensures continuity. Consultants integrate quickly, operating as part of the in-house team, enabling organisations to maintain momentum without overloading internal resources or delaying key business activities.
As businesses grow or enter new markets, legal demand often fluctuates. LS Law helps organisations scale support up or down in line with business needs, providing the right level of expertise at the right time. This avoids over-reliance on permanent hires while ensuring legal capacity is aligned to commercial priorities, allowing teams to respond effectively without becoming a bottleneck.
Life sciences organisations often operate across multiple regions, creating complexity in legal coverage. LS Law provides support across jurisdictions, helping organisations manage legal requirements consistently while adapting to local nuances. This ensures continuity of advice, reduces fragmentation and enables organisations to operate with confidence in global environments without needing to build large internal teams.
LS Law offers immediate access to consultants with deep life sciences experience, removing the delays associated with recruitment or onboarding. This allows organisations to respond quickly to emerging challenges, whether regulatory, commercial or operational. Having access to proven expertise ensures decisions are made with confidence, particularly in high-pressure or time-sensitive situations.
Step 3: Delivery
The final component is delivery. The value of legal is determined not only by the quality of advice, but by how effectively it is delivered into the business. Consistent, timely and well-integrated legal support is essential to enabling confident decision-making.
LS Law works as an extension of the in-house legal team, embedding consultants within the organisation to ensure legal is involved early in decision-making. This proactive approach reduces delays, improves alignment and ensures that legal advice is provided with full business context, helping teams avoid last-minute challenges and operate more efficiently.
Rather than simply identifying risks, LS Law focuses on delivering clear, actionable solutions. Consultants work closely with stakeholders to understand objectives and provide advice that enables progress. This approach helps shift the perception of legal from a “showstopper” to a trusted business partner that supports innovation and growth.
LS Law helps organisations develop structured legal processes, including contract workflows, approval systems and governance frameworks. These processes improve consistency, reduce risk and enable legal teams to operate more efficiently. By creating scalable systems, organisations can manage increasing complexity without compromising control.
Effective legal support depends on how advice is delivered. LS Law places strong emphasis on stakeholder engagement, ensuring legal guidance is communicated clearly and appropriately for different audiences. By building trust and aligning with business teams, consultants help embed legal thinking across the organisation, improving adoption and strengthening overall performance.
Step 2: Capability
LS Law provides the specialist legal expertise needed to navigate the complexities of the life sciences sector. With deep in-house experience across regulatory, commercial and specialist areas, we deliver practical, business-focused advice that aligns legal strategy with commercial objectives. Our approach ensures organisations can manage risk effectively while making confident, informed decisions in a highly regulated environment.
LS Law consultants bring specialist knowledge across pharmaceutical, biotech and healthcare sectors. This includes understanding regulatory frameworks, industry codes and commercial realities unique to life sciences. Their in-house experience ensures advice is grounded in practical application, helping organisations navigate complexity while aligning legal strategy with business objectives.
LS Law supports a wide range of commercial legal activities, including drafting, reviewing and negotiating contracts. This spans partnerships, supply agreements, HCP engagements and broader commercial arrangements. The focus is on delivering pragmatic, solutions-led advice that enables the business to move forward, rather than slowing progress with overly cautious or theoretical legal positions.
Organisations often require support across specialist areas such as clinical trials, intellectual property, regulatory strategy and data governance. LS Law provides access to expertise across these domains, ensuring that complex legal requirements are managed effectively. This breadth of capability allows organisations to address niche challenges without needing multiple external providers.
A key strength of LS Law is its ability to bridge legal expertise with business priorities. Consultants understand not just the law, but how decisions impact commercial outcomes. This enables them to provide advice that balances risk with opportunity, supporting organisations to achieve their objectives while remaining compliant within a complex regulatory environment.
Review your legal function with our 3-minute diagnostic
Understanding how your legal function is structured is one thing, knowing how effectively it supports the business day-to-day is another. When you’re managing competing priorities and limited resource, it’s not always clear where the gaps or pressure points sit.
Our legal diagnostic provides a quick, structured way to assess your approach. In just a few minutes, you’ll gain clear insight into capacity, capability and delivery, helping you prioritise actions and focus your time where it matters most.
Additional ways we can support life science legal teams.
Working with large multinational pharmaceutical clients, to biotech start-ups, our service offerings are designed to provide you with a breadth of experience and a depth of life science legal expertise.
LS Law helps pharmaceutical and biotech organisations navigate the complex landscape of industry codes and regulations, including frameworks such as ABPI and EFPIA. These rules govern everything from promotional activity and scientific exchange to interactions with healthcare professionals and patient organisations, making compliance critical to maintaining trust and protecting patients.
With deep in-house experience, LS Law provides practical guidance across high-risk areas such as HCP engagements, transfers of value, social media activity and patient support programmes. Their approach ensures activities are appropriately structured, documented and compliant, while still enabling the business to operate effectively and innovate.
LS Law supports life sciences organisations in managing the legal and regulatory complexities of distribution and supply chain operations. From ensuring continuity of supply to navigating import/export requirements, labelling, storage conditions and competition law, they help organisations maintain compliant and efficient supply networks.
Their expertise ensures that operational decisions are aligned with regulatory expectations while also supporting commercial objectives. This includes advising on contracts, logistics, quality control and risk management, helping businesses optimise their supply chain without compromising compliance.
LS Law provides specialist support in protecting and maximising the value of intellectual property across the life sciences sector. From licensing and collaborations to partnerships and M&A activity, they help organisations structure agreements that clearly define ownership, rights and restrictions.
Their approach ensures innovations in pharmaceuticals, biotechnology and medical devices are safeguarded while enabling strategic growth. By aligning IP strategy with commercial objectives, LS Law helps organisations protect their assets while unlocking opportunities for collaboration and expansion.
LS Law delivers tailored training programmes designed to embed compliance and legal understanding across organisations. Their training is grounded in real-world, in-house experience and focuses on practical application rather than theory, ensuring teams understand how to operate compliantly in day-to-day roles.
Through workshops, webinars and targeted sessions, LS Law helps build awareness across key risk areas such as industry codes, data privacy and interactions with stakeholders. The result is a more informed workforce, stronger compliance culture and reduced risk across the business.
LS Law supports organisations in developing and managing robust contract frameworks across the life sciences lifecycle. This includes drafting, reviewing and optimising contracts related to HCP interactions, partnerships, supply chains and commercial arrangements, ensuring they are compliant and fit for purpose.
Their approach focuses on creating clear, practical processes that reduce risk and improve efficiency. By standardising templates and approval workflows, LS Law helps organisations manage contractual complexity while ensuring compliance with regulatory and industry requirements.
LS Law’s regulatory update service provides in-house legal and compliance teams with regular, curated insight into key developments across the life sciences sector. Covering areas such as AI regulation, clinical trials and data privacy, the updates focus on what’s changing and what it means in practice.
Designed for busy professionals, the service translates complex regulatory changes into clear, actionable insights. This enables organisations to stay ahead of emerging risks, adapt their compliance frameworks and make informed decisions in a rapidly evolving environment.
LS Law provides end-to-end legal and regulatory support for clinical trials, helping organisations navigate the complex requirements involved in developing and bringing new therapies to market. Their expertise spans study design, regulatory strategy and interactions with authorities across multiple jurisdictions.
They support the preparation of key documentation, including clinical trial agreements, regulatory submissions and standard operating procedures, ensuring compliance at every stage. By combining legal insight with practical experience, LS Law helps streamline trial processes while reducing regulatory risk.
LS Law helps life sciences companies navigate the rapidly evolving AI landscape by combining legal, compliance and data privacy expertise. We support organisations in assessing regulatory risk, defining appropriate governance frameworks and ensuring AI use aligns with existing laws and emerging regulations. Our in-house experience enables us to provide practical, solutions-led guidance that balances innovation with control, helping businesses adopt AI confidently while protecting patients, data and reputation.
As life sciences organisations grow, enter new markets and adopt new technologies, the demands on in-house legal teams continue to increase. Legal is no longer just a control function, it plays a central role in enabling commercial activity and managing complexity. With the right structure in place, legal can operate as a true business partner, helping teams move faster, make informed decisions and navigate risk without slowing momentum.
Leading Life Science Companies Trust LS Law
Urgo Medical’s UK business needed a more integrated, commercially aligned approach to legal support without a dedicated in-house function. Operating in a complex regulatory environment, spanning distribution, digital health and NHS partnerships, they required legal input that could keep pace with the business.
We established an outsourced legal function embedded into their team, providing responsive, practical support across day-to-day and strategic matters. This streamlined decision-making, reduced reliance on traditional firms and created a more consistent, cost-effective model. The result: a scalable legal function supporting growth, enabling faster decisions while maintaining strong regulatory oversight.
How we helped Urgo Medical create a flexible, commercially aligned legal function to support UK growth.
Urgo Medical’s UK business needed a more integrated, commercially aligned approach to legal support without a dedicated in-house function. Operating in a complex regulatory environment, spanning distribution, digital health and NHS partnerships, they required legal input that could keep pace with the business.
We established an outsourced legal function embedded into their team, providing responsive, practical support across day-to-day and strategic matters. This streamlined decision-making, reduced reliance on traditional firms and created a more consistent, cost-effective model. The result: a scalable legal function supporting growth, enabling faster decisions while maintaining strong regulatory oversight.
How we helped Urgo Medical create a flexible, commercially aligned legal function to support UK growth.
3BP required a structured data privacy framework to support its advanced genomics platform and enable collaboration across the life sciences sector. We worked closely with the team to translate regulatory requirements into practical processes embedded into their operations.
The result: a clear, defensible approach to data protection, enabling compliant data use, stronger governance and confident collaboration with partners.
Supporting 3 Billion Pairs Genetic in establishing a practical, GDPR-aligned approach to data protection.
3BP required a structured data privacy framework to support its advanced genomics platform and enable collaboration across the life sciences sector. We worked closely with the team to translate regulatory requirements into practical processes embedded into their operations.
The result: a clear, defensible approach to data protection, enabling compliant data use, stronger governance and confident collaboration with partners.
Supporting 3 Billion Pairs Genetic in establishing a practical, GDPR-aligned approach to data protection.
Avata Biosciences (previously Sapient Therapeutics) required clarity over intellectual property across complex, cross-border collaborations involving commercial partners and academic institutions. We worked closely with their team to draft and negotiate key agreements, ensuring ownership and use of IP was clearly defined and aligned with their development strategy. The result: clear, consistent IP rights across agreements, enabling continued research, collaboration and future commercialisation with confidence.
Supporting Avata Biosciences in structuring clear, defensible intellectual property arrangements.
Avata Biosciences (previously Sapient Therapeutics) required clarity over intellectual property across complex, cross-border collaborations involving commercial partners and academic institutions. We worked closely with their team to draft and negotiate key agreements, ensuring ownership and use of IP was clearly defined and aligned with their development strategy. The result: clear, consistent IP rights across agreements, enabling continued research, collaboration and future commercialisation with confidence.
Supporting Avata Biosciences in structuring clear, defensible intellectual property arrangements.
Fractional legal support provides access to experienced legal professionals on a flexible, part-time or project basis. It allows organisations to benefit from in-house level expertise without the commitment of a full-time hire.
We work as an extension of your in-house team, providing additional capacity, specialist expertise and practical support. Our consultants integrate quickly and help manage workload, deliver key projects and support business decision-making.
We support a wide range of legal activities including commercial contracts, regulatory advice, clinical trials, governance, data privacy and cross-border legal matters, all tailored to the needs of life sciences organisations.
We can typically provide support quickly, depending on your requirements. Our network of experienced consultants allows us to match the right expertise to your needs and begin supporting your organisation within a short timeframe.
Yes. All of our consultants have experience working within pharmaceutical, biotech or healthcare organisations, meaning they understand the regulatory environment and the practical challenges faced by in-house teams.
Unlike traditional law firms, our consultants operate as part of your team. We provide practical, commercially focused support and help implement solutions, rather than delivering purely advisory, external legal opinions.
Yes. We regularly support organisations during periods of growth, restructuring, market entry or transformation, ensuring legal functions can scale in line with business demands.
Our support is fully flexible and can be tailored to your needs, whether you require short-term cover, ongoing fractional support or project-based input. We can scale up or down as your requirements change.
Our pricing depends on the level and type of support required. We offer flexible models, including day rates, project-based pricing and ongoing support arrangements, ensuring solutions are aligned with your budget and business needs.
We take the time to understand your business, team dynamics and requirements before matching you with a consultant. This ensures the right cultural and professional fit, allowing for seamless integration.
Learn how we support in-house legal teams
Watch Wendy outline how LS Law supports in-house legal teams across compliance, legal and data privacy, helping organisations navigate complexity and manage risk effectively.
The video gives a clear overview of our approach and how we work alongside clients. Want to go deeper into our experience and background? Visit our About Us page.
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