Your company secretary and corporate lawyer. One retainer.
One retainer replaces company secretary fees plus ad hoc legal costs. Spend the same money better.
Most ASX-listed small-to-mid cap companies have a company secretary provided by a registry firm. The service handles filings, board minutes and meeting convening. What it doesn't do is give legal advice.
So when an ASX query arrives, a disclosure question surfaces, or a capital raising needs structuring, the board is told to engage external lawyers. Those lawyers bill at $500–800 an hour and have no institutional knowledge of the company. The registry CoSec and the law firm work in parallel.
Nobody holds the full picture.JR3 Legal replaces that arrangement with a single engagement. I act as your company secretary and your corporate lawyer - the same practitioner, one retainer, full institutional knowledge from day one.
Announceable Appointment.
When your board appoints JR3, you lodge an ASX announcement that appoints a General Counsel and Company Secretary.
That signals governance maturity to the market, ASIC, the ASX and to institutional investors.
A registry or boutique appointed CoSec does not carry this signal.
Legal privilege.
Company Secretary providers are not law practices.
Their communications with your board are not privileged.
JR3 is a law practice.
Continuous disclosure deliberations, ASX query responses, and transaction advice attract legal professional privilege by default.
This is the benefit of unifying legal, governance and company secretarial work within a single legal retainer.
Cost.
Most boards of small to mid-caps ASX listed companies have adopted a fragmented arrangement - a registry or boutique CoSec retainer, plus ad hoc external legal bills.
This spend can run to $14,000 per month or more.
JR3’s integrated retainer is structured to be far below these figures.
Boards are not being asked to spend more. Boards are asked to apply an existing compliance and legal cost budget for an outcome that is both cheaper and better.
One practitioner with full institutional knowledge and regulatory standing under the Legal Profession Uniform Law.
Direct access.
You deal directly with the practitioner that holds the appointment. Not an account manager, not a team of rotating associates, and not a supervising partner reviewing their junior’s work.
No approval chains, and no team handoffs.
Every board paper, every ASX announcement, every disclosure decision.
A fortnightly standing call with the chair or managing director provides the structural rhythm. This is the floor, not the ceiling.
Clients have direct access to their legal officer as needed, without a billing clock running.
The Listed Officer Protocol
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JR3 Legal bundles two services normally bought separately - ASX company secretary and corporate lawyer, into a single monthly retainer.
Under The Listed Officer Protocol™, I act as named legal officer on the record. Legal privilege is built in. No approval chains. No team handoffs. Spend the same money better.
Secure your board's legal and secretarial function. Spend less money better.
I act as one retainer, one practitioner, and one point of contact.
Appoint JR3 to ensure legal privilege and institutional knowledge are built into your board's operations from day one.
Replace fragmented and excessive legal and compliance costs with a direct line to Julian Rockett.