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Contract review, fixed price
Read by a lawyer. Answered in plain English.
Send the contract somebody has asked you to sign. You get back a one-page answer — sign it, push back on these three things, or don't sign — within two working days, at a price agreed before we start.
Fine as it is
Confidentiality — Mutual and time-limited. Nothing unusual in it
Governing law — Your own courts, which is what you want
Payment terms — Thirty days — normal for this kind of work
Governing law — Your own courts, which is what you want
Payment terms — Thirty days — normal for this kind of work
Worth pushing back on
Unlimited liability — Ask for a cap. Most counterparties expect to be asked
Notice period — Theirs is seven days and yours is ninety. Ask for symmetry
IP assignment — As written it covers work you did before this contract. It shouldn't
Notice period — Theirs is seven days and yours is ninety. Ask for symmetry
IP assignment — As written it covers work you did before this contract. It shouldn't
Don't sign this
Personal guarantee — A company contract that makes you personally liable is a different deal
Rolling renewal, no exit — This is the clause people ring us about a year later
Rolling renewal, no exit — This is the clause people ring us about a year later
Every line is written for you rather than for another lawyer, with the clause number beside it so you can find it. A marked-up version comes too if you ask for one — but the one-pager is what people actually use.
A review that always finds problems is selling you something
Roughly a third of what we read comes back as "this is normal, sign it". That is a real answer and it is worth paying for — knowing a contract is standard is precisely what you were trying to find out.
If it's fine — We say so in a paragraph, and charge the same fixed fee
If it's fixable — The three or four things worth raising, ranked, with the wording to use
If it's bad — We say don't sign, and why, in language you can forward to whoever sent it
If it isn't our field — We say that as well, and we don't charge for finding out
If it's fixable — The three or four things worth raising, ranked, with the wording to use
If it's bad — We say don't sign, and why, in language you can forward to whoever sent it
If it isn't our field — We say that as well, and we don't charge for finding out
Two working days, or you don't pay
Standard — Two working days from the moment we have the document and the fee
Same day — Available on request, priced higher, and confirmed before you pay it
If we're late — You don't pay. Not a discount — you don't pay
What we need — The document, and one line about what you're actually worried about
What slows it down — Attachments a contract refers to but nobody sent. We ask once
Same day — Available on request, priced higher, and confirmed before you pay it
If we're late — You don't pay. Not a discount — you don't pay
What we need — The document, and one line about what you're actually worried about
What slows it down — Attachments a contract refers to but nobody sent. We ask once
The clock pauses only while we're waiting on you, and we tell you when it pauses and when it starts again.
What a review can't do
Make a clause go away
We can tell you a term is unfair. Whether it changes is up to whoever sent it, and sometimes the honest answer is that they won't move on it.
Be the negotiation
You get the wording and the ranking. If you'd rather we did the back-and-forth, that is a separate quote and we'll tell you whether it's worth paying for.
Predict the outcome
What a clause means if it is ever tested is decided by a court, on facts that don't exist yet. We tell you the risk. We don't tell you the result.
Priced by length, not by the size of the deal
Short
$180 up to 10 pages
- The one-page answer
- Clause numbers so you can find each point
- Wording to send back
- Two working days
Standard
$340 up to 30 pages
- Everything in Short
- Schedules and annexes read too
- A ranked list rather than a long one
- A marked-up copy if you want it
- Two working days
Long or unusual
Quoted after we've seen it
- Over 30 pages, or an unfamiliar structure
- Quoted before any work starts
- Turnaround agreed with the quote
- Never priced off the deal value
Priced by length rather than by what the deal is worth, because the reading takes the same time either way. Send it first: we confirm the tier and the price before you pay anything.
★★★★★
“It came back saying the contract was standard and to sign it. That was worth the fee on its own — I'd been staring at the thing for a week.”
Sara D.
Freelance agreement
★★★★★
“Three things, ranked, with the exact wording to send back. Two of them were agreed the same afternoon.”
Owen K.
Supplier agreement
Send it over
Tell us what it is and when they want an answer. We confirm the price and the turnaround before anything is paid.
Send a contract for review
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