Professional services debt recovery

Typical instructions

• Unpaid retainers, milestone invoices and disbursements.
• Scope-creep disputes where additional work was instructed informally.
• Clients withholding payment pending an unrelated commercial issue.
• Broken settlement promises and stalled payment plans.

Discretion first

Fee disputes are reputational. Contact is made professionally and in your name only where you want it to be, with every conversation logged and a clear record of what was agreed. Where a client raises a service complaint we identify quickly whether it is genuine or a delaying tactic.

Escalation

Where pre-legal collection does not resolve matters we issue a letter before action under the Pre-Action Protocol for Debt Claims, and proceed through our panel solicitors only where it is commercially justified. Statutory interest and compensation under the Late Payment of Commercial Debts (Interest) Act 1998 are claimed where recoverable.