Northline Law helps founders, employers, executives, and professionals understand the legal risk before the next move — through focused consultations, fixed-fee reviews, and advisory retainers built for ongoing counsel.
Business and workplace decisions create legal structure whether you plan for them or not. A contract signed quickly, a termination handled casually, a founder agreement left on a napkin — each becomes the reference document when something goes wrong later. Northline helps the people making those decisions understand the situation before it is filed, signed, or sent.
Consultations are focused, paid, and end with a recommended next step — not a sales pitch. Engagements scope cleanly from there: a fixed-fee review, a drafting engagement, a negotiation, or an advisory retainer for teams that would rather ask before it is urgent.
§ 02 — Practice areas
Structured counsel for five fronts.
Northline works across the matters where business, work, and contracts intersect — from the documents that define ownership to the decisions that end a working relationship.
Northline’s work sits at the intersection of business and employment law. Most clients arrive on one of four paths — each with a specific read, a specific set of documents, and a specific next move.
Consultations are deliberately structured. The point is to leave the conversation with a clearer picture of the situation — and a decision you can act on.
I
Tell us what changed.
A short intake form captures context — the company, the role, the document, or the decision. Enough to prepare, not enough to commit.
II
Get a legal read.
A focused consultation: the facts, the framework that applies, the risk points, and the options that remain on the table.
III
Choose the next move.
You leave with a recommended step, a written summary where useful, and a clear sense of what would come next — not a sales pitch.
IV
Engage where it fits.
A fixed-fee review or drafting engagement, a negotiation, or an advisory retainer — priced and scoped before we start.
§ 05 — Pricing preview
Published starting points.
Fees are transparent and scoped in writing before we start. The full pricing page lists each fixed-fee engagement and advisory tier with what is included.
Consultation
Initial Consultation
$27545 minutes
Issue overview, legal read of the situation, options and risk points, and a recommended next step.
Business consultation — $375 · 60 min
Executive review — $450 · 60 min
Fixed-fee
Defined Reviews & Drafts
from $650per matter
Scoped reviews and drafting: employment agreements, severance packages, contracts, and founder or contractor documents.
Severance review — from $750
Contract review — from $850
Shareholder agreement — from $1,500
Advisory
Retainers
from $950per month
Ongoing legal support for growing teams — contracts, employment questions, and risk review on a planned cadence.
Advisory retainers give growing businesses a structured way to ask legal questions, review documents, and manage risk over time — with a predictable monthly cadence instead of a series of last minute calls.
Core Advisory
from $950/month
Monthly advisory time for contracts, policies, and employment triage.
Up to 2 hours of advisory time per month
Contract and policy questions
Employment issue triage
◆ Recommended
Growth Advisory
from $1,850/month
Support for teams actively hiring, contracting, and negotiating. Recommended for most clients.
Up to 5 hours of advisory time per month
Employment and contractor support
Contract review queue
Counsel Desk
from $3,500/month
Outside general counsel support with planned cadence, matter tracking, and leadership time.
General information, not legal advice — written for founders, employers, executives, and professionals who want to understand the document in front of them.
Northline publishes the details a serious client needs before booking: who is responsible, how conflicts are screened, when fees are confirmed, and what happens before work begins.
Scope
Written scope before work starts
Every paid consultation, fixed-fee review, negotiation, and advisory retainer is confirmed with the fee, assumptions, deliverables, and next step in writing.
Northline standard
Conflicts
Conflict checks come first
The intake flow asks for opposing-party information before any confidential material is requested or reviewed.
Northline standard
Deliverables
Plain-English deliverables
The work product is designed to be usable by founders, operators, employers, executives, and professionals making a real decision.
Northline standard
Consultation / Northline
§ 09 — Next move
Get the legal read before the next move.
Most matters cost less to handle early than late. A consultation is a paid, focused conversation that ends with a clear read and a recommended next step — and, when it fits, a scoped fee arrangement for the work that follows.
