Practice area
Good contracts prevent disputes; good counsel wins them.
The firm drafts and reviews commercial agreements — services agreements, purchase and sale terms, NDAs, licensing — and represents clients in contract disputes, from demand letters and negotiation through resolution. Drafting is quoted as a flat fee in writing; dispute work is billed at $300 per hour.
Drafting
Agreements written for your business, not adapted from a template.
Review
Read before you sign, while the terms can still be changed.
Disputes
Demand letters, negotiation, and resolution.
Clear fees
Drafting flat-quoted in writing; dispute work at $300 per hour.
What the firm drafts and reviews
Services agreements, statements of work, purchase and sale terms, non-disclosure agreements, licensing, independent contractor agreements, and the assignment language that decides who owns what was created.
Most of a contract’s value sits in the clauses nobody reads at signing: scope, payment and late payment, termination, indemnity, limitation of liability, ownership of work product, confidentiality, governing law and forum, and how a dispute gets resolved. Those are the terms that decide what happens on the worst day of the relationship, and they are negotiable only before signature.
When a contract is already broken
The first question is what the writing actually says, which is often not what either side remembers agreeing to. The second is what a remedy is realistically worth, net of what it costs to obtain. Both are answered before a demand letter goes out, not after.
From there the work runs through demand and negotiation, and to resolution — settlement where that serves you, and a filed claim where it does not. Most contract disputes settle, and the ones that settle well are the ones that were assessed honestly at the start.
How it is billed
Drafting and review are quoted as a flat fee, in writing, before any work begins, so the cost of the document is known before you commit to it.
Dispute work is billed at $300 per hour and is approved with you as it goes. You will not receive an invoice for work you did not know was being done.
Common questions
Contracts
Can I just use a template?
Sometimes, for low-stakes and repeat transactions. The risk is that a template is generic exactly where your deal is specific, and the clauses it handles worst are the ones that matter when something goes wrong.
Is an email exchange a binding contract?
It can be. Enforceability turns on the terms and the conduct of the parties far more than on the format, which is why informal agreements produce a disproportionate share of disputes.
Do you review agreements someone else drafted?
Yes, and that is a large share of this work. Review before signature is the cheapest point at which anything can still be changed.
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Talk it through with an attorney.
A one-hour consultation by video — $300, credited in full toward your flat fee if you move forward. You leave knowing what you need and what it costs.