Help with Contracts

L4SB contains over 200 years of combined legal experience.  Our senior attorneys have over 30 years of experience each.

We have the experience to help with almost all contract issues faced by small and medium sized businesses:

• Drafting – All smart business owners make sure they have a high-quality agreement for all interactions with third-parties, including partners, employees/contractors, clients/customers, vendors and the parties to business deals.
• Negotiating – With our experience, we can help think strategically and tactically, and help avoid those pitfalls and loopholes that can haunt your business years after the negotiations have concluded.
• Disputing – For those times you do end up in a contract dispute, whether someone is merely threatening you, actively breaching a contract, or has filed a lawsuit, L4SB has your back.

Whatever your business contracts needs are, contact L4SB to help you.

When drafting contracts, we never start from scratch.  We maintain a pool of high-quality templates to start from, although everyone’s business needs and deal parameters are different.

When you hire L4SB, you hire experience.  We will talk to you about your particular needs, discuss the various options, and then iteratively work through the document (or documents) you need.

Writing a good contract is a lot like playing chess.  It’s about thinking several moves ahead, both tactically and strategically.  This means many things, including not placing yourself in a position of jeopardy (i.e. having a way out if you’re dependent upon someone else), leveraging the rules of contract law in your favor (i.e. drafting rules around ambiguities), knowing the enforceability of certainly clauses (i.e. non-compete), and knowing what is voidable versus voids a contract (i.e. non-compete overreach versus perpetual contract).

This means we’ve been there, and done that, before.  We can help you:

• Focus on the key issues
• Separate the legal issues from the business issues
• Evaluate whether you’re “getting a good deal” (although we are not valuation experts)
• Help you avoid pitfalls and loopholes

When negotiating, we focus close client coordination, consultation and fast turnaround.

When disputing contracts, L4SB has a close look at the bottom-line, and we help our clients map the most cost-effective path out of the dispute.

Costs can vary drastically, depending on whether we’re actively working with (or opposing) the other side, and whether the other side is collaborative, disruptive or worse.

L4SB charges for its time (call us for our standard hourly rate).

For drafting a new contract, assume 3-6 hours of our time for standard-complexity documents, and more for more complicated documents.

For negotiating or disputing, costs can vary and it’s very difficult to give price estimates.  Call us to discuss further.