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§ Advisory Retainers
Monthly counsel · Planned cadence · Scoped hours
The sharpest legal question is the one asked while it is still boring. Core, Growth, and Counsel Desk give growing teams written scope, planned hours, and a lawyer to call before the issue gets expensive.
§ 01: Why a retainer
Growing companies generate legal questions in bursts: a contract, a hire, a contractor, a policy, a workplace issue. Most are easier to handle while the facts are fresh and choices still exist.
A retainer keeps those questions from becoming a recurring fire drill. The hours, scope, and response windows are written down before the relationship starts.
§ 02: Three tiers
Hours, scope, and response windows are published. Unused hours and out-of-scope work are governed by the retainer agreement, which is written before any work begins.
Suited for: Small businesses that need monthly legal support
A planned legal desk for contracts, policies, and employment triage.
Suited for: Growing companies with hiring, contractor, and contract volume
For teams hiring, contracting, and negotiating often enough that last-minute counsel has lost its charm. Recommended for most clients.
Suited for: Founder-led teams needing outside general counsel support
Outside general counsel support with a real cadence, live matter tracking, and leadership time on the calendar.
§ 03: What the hours cover
Vendor contracts, client agreements, contractor paperwork, and the policy updates that come with growth.
Offers, terminations, workplace issues, classification questions, and restrictive-covenant reads.
Monthly risk notes on open questions, with a running list of matters, their status, and what is waiting on whom.
Structured review across contracts, employment, and governance, focused on changes worth making in the next quarter.
Board and shareholder resolutions, corporate record upkeep, and matter planning on a planned cadence.
Monthly call with founders or operators to plan the quarter, escalate the hard questions, and align on priorities.
§ 04: How a retainer starts
Sixty-minute call to understand the business, the team, the existing paper, and the risk patterns you are seeing.
A recommended tier sets out hours, scope, and response windows, with room to right-size before signature.
Written retainer agreement covering scope, hours, fees, out-of-scope rates, confidentiality, conflicts, and termination.
Intake on live contracts and policies, the existing paper trail, and the open questions to work first.
Standing availability, monthly risk notes, and a running matter list. Quarterly reviews on Growth and Counsel Desk.
§ 05: Related
Practice
The paper beneath ownership, authority, money, and exits.
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Practice
Make the hard workplace decision on paper, not instinct.
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Practice
Scope, payment, termination, ownership, liability, leverage.
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Guide · Employers
Six modules covering hiring, contractor structure, workplace policies, performance and discipline, terminations, and dispute response.
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Contracts
The dangerous clause rarely announces itself. Read scope, payment, termination, IP, liability, and disputes before the contract gets leverage.
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§ Start an advisory retainer
A business consultation starts the process. The retainer is written before any work begins, with hours, scope, and response windows in black and white.
Toronto · Ontario