Contract counsel for every business deal

We read contracts for what they will do on a bad day, then negotiate terms that protect you without stalling the relationship you are trying to build. Most contracts are signed on a good day and read closely on a bad one. Our review focuses on the clauses that decide outcomes when something goes wrong: payment timing, limits of liability, indemnities, termination rights and where a dispute gets heard. We mark each one with a plain explanation and a suggested fix.

• Customer and vendor agreements
• Master service terms and SOWs
• Licensing, NDAs and renewals

For companies that sign the same kind of agreement again and again, we build a template library with a fallback position for each negotiable term, so your sales or operations team can close routine deals without waiting on us. Read our notes for owners for more on how we think about this work.

Approach

We negotiate firmly on the handful of terms that carry real risk and let the rest go. Counterparties notice when a lawyer fights about everything, and it slows the deal for no benefit to you.

The clause you skim today is the clause a judge reads slowly later.

Send us the agreement you are about to sign. For most commercial contracts we can return marked comments within two business days.