The AI-native law firm for employment law.

For employers who want a fast, correct answer at a price agreed in advance. AI drafts the first version. I read everything, finish it and represent you in court when it comes to that.

First reply within 24 h·Fixed price, published·One lawyer, from question to court

Want to try it first? Work rules check, free, 2 minutes

file · work rules · run #041200:00.0
00:00.0> upload work_rules_2023.pdf (128 p.)
00:00.4● scan 41 mandatory provisions
00:00.9✓ 20 in order
00:00.9⚠ 8 incomplete ✕ 5 missing
00:02.1● first pass rewrite + redline generated
00:02.2● review Christian checks the 13 points …
03:12:40✓ redline + notes approved
04:05:19✓ finalised by Christian
✓ done · fixed price, known up front
Every step reviewed by Christian MinetteFixed price · known up front · within the agreed timeline

Who it's for

01

SMEs and growth companies without their own employment law specialist

From your first employee to 150. Your payroll provider does the payslips. I do what stops there: the contract that deviates, the sensitive dismissal, the policy you don't have yet. With or without an HR manager.

02

International companies with staff in Belgium

Belgian employment law, explained on one page, in English, priced in advance. Async and fast, the way you work.

03

Any business owner with one specific question

One question, a fast and correct answer from a lawyer, at a fixed price. No file that keeps growing, no invoice afterwards. A 60-minute advice call with a written summary: € 250.

04

In-house legal teams that want control over legal spend

You already work with employment lawyers and want control back over what that costs. Fixed, published prices, and a subscription with a fixed response time.

What I do for you

From first contract to last working day. And everything in between.

Employment law for the whole career of your people. Pick a step.

01 · Hiring

Hiring without unwelcome surprises

No template, but an employment contract tailored to the needs of the company. I know what often goes wrong later, and I cover it up front.
  • Review and drafting of the contract, with attention to the employee's status and the applicable sector rules
  • The clauses this role needs, including bonus and variable pay
  • The necessary addenda, such as company car, laptop, phone and expense allowance...
  • A check that your policies and benefits fit this hire
  • Advice on the formalities at the start
Also

Working with self-employed contractors

Management agreements for executives, independent contractor agreements for freelancers, protection against the risk of false self-employment.

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How it works

From your question to the finished advice. In four steps.

At every moment you know what is happening, what it costs and when you will have it.

01

Your question

Through the form below or a 30-minute intro call. First reply within 24 hours on working days.

Day 0
02

A one-page quote

What I will do, the fixed price from the list and the delivery time.

Within 24 h on working days
03

Agreement and start

You confirm the quote by e-mail and I start. The invoice follows as agreed in the quote.

After your agreement
04

Delivery

Within the timeline in your quote. Reviewed, finalised and explained in plain language.

Timeline in your quote
In every fixed price
  • Your own lawyer, from start to finish
  • The price from the list, even if it takes longer
  • The delivery time from your quote

How I work

AI does the groundwork. I do the legal work.

I don't deliver a document AI made. I deliver a lawyer's advice, produced faster thanks to AI. The difference is in how I work.

  1. 1

    I frame your question

    What is it really about legally, and what do you want to achieve? I make that assessment as a Belgian employment lawyer.

  2. 2

    My own AI workflows get to work

    Not a chat window everyone uses, but AI workflows and agents I built myself. I feed them my own checklists and working rules per type of document, and anonymised examples I approved myself, from years of practice. So the AI looks where I would look, not only at what a standard legal check sees.

  3. 3

    Targeted research in Belgian sources

    My own research agents search the professional databases for legislation, case law, legal commentary and collective agreements, not what happens to be freely online.

  4. 4

    AI drafts a first version, and flags its doubts

    Within my own workflows, based on my checklists and that research. Whatever is unclear, it must flag instead of guessing; I research those points further.

  5. 5

    I finish it and take ownership

    I improve it, add the strategy and stand behind the advice as a lawyer. From start to finish, it stays my file.

You can always ask what AI did: which step, which model, what I changed. Questions about how I handle your data? Just ask.

Pricing Launch pricing · excl. VAT

Pick your plan. Know your price.

Launch pricing, excluding VAT: these are my prices for the first 50 clients, while I build the firm.

44of 50
launch-rate places still open6 already taken

One-off file

Fixed price per file
  • Intro call, 30 minfree
  • Advice call, 60 min + written summary€ 250
  • Tailor-made hiring package: contract, addenda and advice€ 590
  • Work rules: update after the scan€ 990
  • Dismissal handled from A to Z, without court proceedings€ 1,590
See all prices Request a quote

Subscription

Recommended
Fixed monthly price, by company size
Starter€ 250per month1 to 15 employeesYour questions by e-mail, phone or WhatsApp, reply within 24 hours. Up to 2 short questions per month. Files at the fixed list price.
Essential€ 345per month10 to 30 employeesUp to 4 short questions per month, annual work rules audit, 10 % off every file.
Partner€ 695per month30 to 100 employeesShort questions without a counter, subject to fair use, start audit, quarterly call, 15 % off every file.

Cancellable monthly after 3 months.

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Litigation

Fixed price per proceeding, invoiced in stages
  • Labour court proceedings, first instance, standard (claim up to € 25,000)€ 4,900
  • First instance, complex (higher stakes or a special status)€ 7,900
  • Extra steps at fixed unit prices, for example an extra round of submissions or an extra hearingfixed
  • Appeal60 % of first instance
  • Success fee: 15 % of what I save youmax. 2 x the fixed price
  • Invoicingin stages
  • Hourly ratenone
Request a quote

Reply and quote within 24 hours on working days; we set the delivery time in your quote. All amounts excl. VAT. What's here is binding: that is what you pay. Court costs and the procedural costs award in proceedings are separate.

The AI paradox

Lawyers got faster. Invoices didn't get lower.

87 %

of in-house counsel see no reduction in billed hours from AI at their outside law firms.

ACC and Everlaw, 2025 (657 in-house lawyers, 30 countries)
+ 9.6 %

rise in US law firm hourly rates in 2026. Despite AI.

Thomson Reuters Law Firm Rates Report, 2026

“We get nothing. They haven't changed and probably next year the same work will cost even more.”

A senior in-house lawyer at a global company, In-house Legal Summit, Stockholm, February 2026 (Artificial Lawyer)

The time savings are real. They just stay with the firm, because the overhead stays: floors, secretaries, juniors, licences. A firm that has existed for thirty years doesn't dismantle that; it recovers its AI investment through the hourly rate. I never built that overhead. So the savings go into your price.

No names, just facts

Typical firm versus OneTake. Legal

What
Typical firm
OneTake. Legal
Who does the work
✕ Often several people on one file, without you asking for it, each with their own hourly rate you don't know in advance
✓ Me. You speak to the person doing the work. No extra people, no extra rates.
Price
✕ Hourly rates, sometimes several per file, invoiced afterwards and without a cap. You don't know in advance where you will end up.
✓ Fixed, up front, on the site. No hourly rate, not even for bespoke work. No unpleasant surprises.
Office costs
✕ On top of the fee: a flat 6 to 25 % surcharge, or charges per page, per e-mail, per phone call, for database searches, travel and opening your file
✓ Zero
Office
✕ Office space, administrative and support staff sit in the hourly rate and the cost surcharge
✓ A coworking space, no office of my own. Run as a bootstrapped company.
Delivery time
✕ Rarely a published timeline
✓ A timeline in every quote, and I stick to it.
AI
✕ Sometimes used, but in an unclear way, without you as a client gaining in time or cost
✓ In every file, finalised by a lawyer who stands behind the advice. The savings sit in your price.
Your documents
✕ Few firms publish their AI and data policy
✓ Go through business tools, train no models, are never shared without your consent

Free for employers

Test it yourself. In ten minutes.

Two tools I use in every file myself, free and without registration. You get a first picture on screen; what it means for your company, we discuss afterwards.

FREE · ± 2 MINUTES

Work rules check

Upload your work rules (arbeidsreglement), in Dutch or as an English translation. In about a minute you see which of the 41 mandatory provisions are in order, missing or need a closer look. The full report arrives by e-mail.

Sample report
20 in order8 incomplete5 missing
Start the check
FREE · ± 10 MINUTES

Dismissal risk scan

Planning a dismissal, or in the middle of one? Answer the questions and see right away which deadlines are running, where the legal risks sit and what your theoretical exposure is.

Start the risk scan

Both tools give a first picture, not legal advice. Your data goes through business tools and is not used to train models.

Christian Minette, lawyer and founder of OneTake. Legal
Christian Minette · Lawyer · founder
Education
  • KU Leuven · Postgraduate in Pensions Law · 2025
  • Vrije Universiteit Brussel · Master after Master in Social Law · 2021
  • Vlerick Business School · Master in General Management · 2018
  • University of Antwerp · Master of Laws · 2017
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Who I am

“I started a firm I'd want to be a client of myself.”

First an international top-tier firm, then in-house and HR. Builds his own tools, works without hidden costs, charges nothing he wouldn't accept himself.

LawyerAntwerp BarEntrepreneurAI-native from day one
As a lawyer

I've seen employment and pension law in all its facets. At a Magic Circle firm, one of the largest international law firms, I advised multinationals and executives on complex files with high stakes and a strong international dimension.

In local firms I worked for SMEs and individuals. As in-house counsel in the public and the private sector I sat on the other side of the advice: I know which question is really behind the problem.

As an HR advisor in a petrochemical company I saw how advice (out)lives on the shop floor, with emotions that fit into no memo.

With technology

I've worked with the frontier AI models for years, out of passion. A gamer since childhood, always the newest technology in the house. I don't feel threatened by it: I look forward to how the profession changes, and I get energy from it.

I built this site and the tools on it myself. Not a lawyer whose firm makes him use a bit of AI, but someone who builds with it every day: my own workflows, structured data, as few tokens as possible, and for each task the model that is best today.

FAQ

What employers want to know first.

Why don't I just ask Claude, ChatGPT or Gemini myself?

Fair question. I use AI every day, so I know exactly how far the technology reaches.

  1. I'm a lawyer.

    As a lawyer, I stand behind every piece of advice that goes out, whatever share of it AI prepared. For you, that percentage doesn't matter. For me it does: I read everything.

  2. Belgian employment law isn't in the training data.

    US case law is freely available online, at high quality. Belgian case law and commentary sit behind paid databases that exclude AI use. What is freely online was written with a commercial purpose or from one side of the table. I work with the professional databases and check every AI output against them.

  3. I know what to ask.

    An experienced lawyer writes better instructions and spots a convincingly wrong answer. That's the difference between a chatbot and counsel with a chatbot.

  4. AI takes no responsibility.

    No model stands behind the answer it gives you. I do, and in doing so I respect the ethical rules of the legal profession.

  5. AI doesn't negotiate.

    It doesn't call the other side, doesn't plead before the labour court and doesn't watch your deadlines. It doesn't replace counsel. It does change the substance of the work, fast.

  6. What you tell me is protected.

    Legal privilege. What you type into a chatbot isn't.

  7. Honest about AI.

    Almost every firm uses AI. Few say so, and you don't see it on the invoice. I do say so, and you see it in the price.

Are you a real law firm?

Yes. I am a lawyer at the Antwerp Bar and bound by the ethical rules of the Flemish Bar Association (OVB). My professional liability is insured.

What happens once I accept the quote?

You confirm the quote by e-mail and I start the work. The invoice follows as agreed in the quote, and the result within the timeline in your quote.

What if my file turns out bigger than expected?

Then the fixed price still applies to what we agreed, even if it takes longer. Extra steps, such as an extra round of submissions, have a fixed unit price and I tell you in advance.

Who sees my data?

I work with business tools under business terms: they don't train models on your documents. Where needed, I anonymise names in documents. And I comply with the rules of professional secrecy.

What don't you do?
  • No payroll or social security filings: that stays with your payroll provider.
  • No social security law, and I am not a specialist in unemployment benefit rules.
  • No files outside employment and pensions law. If you like, I will refer you to a colleague I trust.
  • I follow the rules on conflicts of interest. For example, I don't assist an employee in a dispute with an employer I assist.
  • As a rule, I don't work for private individuals. Only in exceptional cases do I depart from that.
  • No hourly rate, not even as an exception.
Which languages do you work in?

Dutch, English and French, written and spoken.

Can I cancel my subscription?

Yes. After the first three months, your subscription can be cancelled monthly.

Do you also handle labour court proceedings?

Yes, at a fixed price per proceeding, invoiced in stages. The amounts are listed under Litigation in the pricing.

Start

One take. No noise.

Describe your question. Within 24 hours on working days you will have a quote with a one-page plan of approach, at the fixed price from the list. Rather talk first? Book 30 minutes.

Reply in

I only use your details to answer your question. Requesting a quote does not create a client relationship.

Rather talk first?
Book a free intro call 30 MIN · ONLINE · FREE

The booking page is in Dutch; the call itself can be in English.

christian@onetakelegal.be+32 497 17 51 78Pierstraat 68 · 2630 AartselaarVirtual or on-site