About CHORD

My Background

I'm Cam. I trained at Shoosmiths before moving in-house to a major international foreign exchange business. Since 2017 my focus has been in-house legal consultancy, advising across sectors from advertising and marketing to financial services and engineering, as well as acting as sole counsel at start-ups.

Fifteen years in, across enterprise tech, financial services, energy and media, including FTSE 100 and NASDAQ-listed environments, and it's the same conclusion every time: the best legal advice is the kind that actually knows the business it's advising, not the kind billed by the hour to whoever's available.

Neither model I'd worked within was built to deliver senior legal judgement from someone who actually knows the business, rather than billable hours from whoever happens to be free. Traditional law firms carry overheads that have to be recovered somehow, so the incentive runs toward hours, not outcomes. Alternative legal service providers solve the cost problem but add a platform in between you and the person doing the work, another layer, another margin.

So I built the thing I thought should already exist: senior judgement, direct access, no one standing between the two. Fixed prices agreed upfront. Total immersion in the business, not a file passed between whoever's free. That's CHORD, and it's just me, on purpose.

I'm individually regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority as a solicitor. CHORD Legal itself is a legal consultancy, not a regulated law firm, a structure the SRA's rules expressly permit, which keeps the cost base lower, with the saving passed on to CHORD Legal's clients.