We’re an innovative legal services provider
About Us
We give expert advice on the best way to structure, negotiate and manage commercial contracts - both big and small.
Our business is all about supporting yours. We build our service around understanding our clients' objectives, providing expert legal guidance with price certainty. We believe creating strong and enduring relationships is key - we work to become part of your team and get to know your business as well as you do.
We see communication as essential to the success of these partnerships with our clients, so we aim to be available and responsive.
We proactively make sure that you have the information you need to be kept up to date on all matters we are engaged on.
We understand the importance of practical advice that works in the real business world and our legal support is therefore always grounded in the realities of our clients' commercial needs.
We appreciate the need for both certainty of price and quality of outcome. So we build our commercial relationships with a view to achieving both.
Our People
The backbone of our business is the quality and experience of our team of lawyers. We are experts in understanding clients’ needs, becoming trusted advisors and getting the right deal outcomes.
Transformation and Diversity
Lighthouse Law is built with a focus on social responsibility, transformation and BBBEE and has majority black ownership. We are a proud BBBEE level two contributor under the Revised Codes of Good Practice 2013. We are committed to being a force for good as a fundamental company value.
The Lighthouse Academy
A key component of our social responsibility is The Lighthouse Academy, launched in January 2018. It is our mentorship, training and skills development program for BBBEE law graduates who are interested in commercial law and in pursuing alternative training opportunities to what is traditionally offered in South Africa's legal sector.
Structure
The Lighthouse group of companies comprises LH Law (registered as Luckan Heyns Inc), which is a South African registered and regulated law firm, and Lighthouse Law (registered as CR Legal Services (Pty) Ltd). All our lawyers are registered in South Africa, and Justin Cornish, CEO of Lighthouse Law, is registered with the Solicitors Regulation Authority in the UK.
We have distilled our vision into the five core values that inform the way we operate, both internally and externally.
01
Lead from where you are
We pride ourselves on being an innovative firm, driving constant improvement and challenging one another to remain open minded at all times. Each team member, regardless of level, is expected to live our values and to lead from where they are.
02
Deliver excellent service
Excellent service means we understand and anticipate our client’s needs, proactively addressing these and providing a work product which is solution driven and always fit for purpose.
03
Build relationships based on trust
The foundation of our firm is the relationships we build, both with our colleagues as a team and with our clients. In order to maintain and grow these relationships, they must be based on open communication and mutual trust and respect.
04
Be a force for good
This is a guiding principle which we live by as Lighthouse Law, whether the good is the Lighthouse Academy, our clients’ businesses, the firm as an organisation or society more generally.
05
Create a place to thrive
Our firm is a place for everyone to thrive and generate value. We acknowledge that value takes many forms and is contributed in many different ways. Value will always be encouraged and recognised.
