Fixed-fee where possible.
The first conversation is free. The first matter is fixed-fee where the work permits it. Hourly only where the shape of the dispute makes a fixed number dishonest. The schedule below governs the engagements the firm takes most often.
Schedule A Formation & Incorporation
Entities for founders and operators — single-member through full corporate stack, drafted at the desk that will later read your contracts.
- Single-member LLC $1,200 Includes Articles, EIN, single-member operating agreement.
- Corporation — single shareholder $1,500 Includes Articles, bylaws, founder stock, §83(b) walkthrough.
- Multi-member LLC $2,500 Includes Articles, EIN, negotiated operating agreement, member onboarding.
- Corporation — full $3,500 Includes Articles, bylaws, cap table, stock purchase agreements, board minutes.
Schedule B Commercial Contracts
The papers that govern customers, vendors, and counterparties. Drafted to be the document you cite, not the document you fight over.
- Terms of Service & Privacy Policy $1,500 Includes Drafted for your actual data flows, not a template.
- SaaS Agreement $2,000 Includes Master subscription, order form, acceptable use, SLA hooks.
- Master Service Agreement $2,000 Includes MSA + statement-of-work shell tailored to your delivery model.
- Contract review & redline $500 Includes Counterparty paper read for material risk, returned with markup.
Schedule C Employment & Equity
The agreements that bind a team — clean enough that the next investor or acquirer does not bill you for diligence cleanup.
- Offer letter $500 Includes At-will offer, equity language, start-date logistics.
- Employment agreement $500 Includes Reusable template for future hires at your company.
- Independent contractor agreement $500 Includes IP-assigning contractor template you can issue from.
- Advisor agreement $500 Includes Vesting, term, confidentiality, scope of advice.
- CIIAA — confidentiality & invention assignment $500 Includes The single document most early companies fail diligence on.
- Separation agreement $500 Includes Release, severance terms, knowledge-transfer obligations.
Schedule D Raising Venture Capital
SAFEs, priced rounds, and the structural work that decides whether your next round goes cleanly or eats six weeks of counsel time.
- SAFE — single instrument $2,000 Includes Cap, discount, MFN drafted to your raise.
- Seed round package $4,500 Includes SAFE, cap-table cleanup, Form D filing.
- Series A package $8,500 Includes Preferred stock docs, IRA, term-sheet negotiation.
Schedule E Intellectual Property
Trademarks, copyrights, and the assignments that keep the IP where the cap table thinks it is.
- Trademark search & clearance $750 Includes USPTO + common-law search, written clearance opinion.
- Federal trademark — 1 class $2,000 Includes End-to-end USPTO filing, government fees included.
- Federal trademark — 2–3 classes $3,500 Includes Multi-class registration, all USPTO fees included.
- Copyright registration $500 Includes Software, written, or creative work; statutory-damages eligible.
- IP assignment agreement $500 Includes Founder, contractor, or third-party transfer to the company.
- Open-source license audit $1,500 Includes Dependency-tree review for copyleft exposure and attribution.
Schedule F Data Privacy — CCPA, GDPR, DIFC
The compliance stack for a company that handles personal data — written to your product, not a templated checklist.
- CCPA compliance audit $3,000 Includes Data mapping, consumer-rights infrastructure, written findings.
- Privacy policy — CCPA-compliant $1,500 Includes Policy drafted from your actual data flows.
- Data processing agreement $1,500 Includes DPA for vendor or customer relationships, sub-processor terms.
- Full privacy package $5,500 Includes Audit, compliant policy, and DPA. The baseline stack.
Schedule G AI & Software Compliance
State-level AI regulation, model-vendor contracts, and the internal policies that keep your team out of the wrong news cycle.
- AI use policy $1,500 Includes Internal policy on inputs, output review, and acceptable use.
- Single-state AI compliance audit $3,000 Includes One of CO, OR, WA, or CA. Findings + remediation roadmap.
- Multi-state AI compliance assessment $6,500 Includes Three or more states mapped to a unified gap analysis.
- Enterprise AI contract review $1,500 Includes Training data, model liability, output indemnity, IP ownership.
Schedule H Real Estate
Holding entities, STR feasibility, and the transaction work that decides whether the deal cash-flows in year one.
- Real estate LLC formation $1,500 Includes Entity + operating agreement, jurisdiction analysis included.
- STR zoning & compliance analysis $1,500 Includes Zoning, permitting, HOA, applicable state law.
- Purchase agreement review $1,000 Includes Redline + written summary of material risk items.
- 1031 exchange structuring consult $2,000 Includes Timeline, QI coordination, identification-period strategy.
Schedule I Hourly Matters & Litigation
Disputes, expert testimony, and one-off work that does not fit a schedule above. Quoted on engagement after a conflict check.
- Counsel — standard hourly Quoted on engagement Includes Billed monthly. Engagement letter sets the rate in writing.
- Expert witness — software & AI Quoted on engagement Includes Report, deposition, trial. Day-rate available for trial weeks.
- Technology litigation — full matter Quoted on engagement Includes Capped fee available where the matter shape permits.
Schedule J Pro Bono & First Conversation
The first conversation is free. Where the matter and the docket allow it, the firm takes pro bono work — civil liberties, small nonprofits, indigent founders.
- First conversation No charge Includes Thirty minutes. Conflict check first, then a real conversation.
- Pro bono engagement No charge Includes Selected matters only; please write with the facts.