Book Rights’ legal work is conducted by Nina. Nina is a qualified solicitor. She has a current practising certificate from the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) and has over 20 years of experience as a solicitor in her chosen practice areas of intellectual property, data protection and commercial law.

Nina’s practice is built on forging strong relationships with her clients, understanding their objectives and doing what she can as a professional advisor to facilitate these.

As a solicitor, Nina has to comply with the highest professional standards and, as with any other practising solicitor, any complaint about her work can be raised with the independent Legal Ombudsman free of charge.

Book Rights is not a traditional firm of solicitors and cannot call itself a "law firm”. Although Nina is a solicitor and is regulated by the SRA, Book Rights has not currently applied for authorisation from the SRA to be a traditional “law firm”.

Book Rights can advise in all the areas described on our website. Legal advice in relation to these areas is generally considered by the SRA to be a “non-reserved legal activity” and so SRA authorisation is not required in order to practice this type of law.

Book Rights is not authorised to conduct any “reserved legal activity” which means that there are certain legal areas in which Book Rights is not authorised to advise. For some types of legal work (such as litigation and any legal work that has a financial services element to it) a client will therefore need to use a traditional law firm and we can assist in directing you to one that suits your needs.

There are also some technical differences between Book Rights and a traditional law firm. For example, Book Rights does not have a “client account” and so cannot hold client money in the same way that a traditional law firm does. And although we have professional indemnity insurance (see below), we don’t have the SRA “minimum terms” insurance cover.

Yes. Book Rights has professional indemnity insurance so that, in the unlikely event that a mistake is made, insurance is in place to protect you. If you have any questions about the cover, please let us know.

We generally charge depending on how long a piece of work takes. For certain tasks, we offer fixed fees. We will agree with you the way in which we will charge for our work, in advance of starting it.

The legal services provided by Nina through Book Rights, are required to meet the same high standards set for all solicitors. Nina is subject to the rules and rulings of independent regulatory and complaints bodies. This means that:

• she is regulated by the SRA and is required to comply with high standards of ethical conduct, including to act in a client’s best interests at all times; and
• as a solicitor, complaints about her can be raised with the Legal Ombudsman free of charge. More information about this process can be found in our terms of business and on our website.

Please note that the SRA and the Legal Ombudsman only deal with solicitors and a solicitor’s legal work.

We only advise in the areas of law specified on our website. We do not conduct litigation. There may be occasions where we feel that a client may be better off working with a traditional law firm and, if so, we will flag this and suggest an alternative lawyer with whom to work. Traditional firms can offer a wider range of services and protections, such as:

• a different range of legal services; litigation, employment advice and financial services advice and other advice in relation to SRA “regulated” activities; and
• the handling of client money: traditional law firms can have client accounts to hold client money on your behalf; and
• providing SRA ‘minimum terms’ professional indemnity insurance cover: traditional law firms are required to have minimum insurance cover of at least £2 million.