Traditional hourly billing creates a perverse incentive: clients avoid calling their attorney because every email and phone call costs money. That means legal issues go unaddressed until they become expensive problems. Our subscription model flips that. You pay a predictable monthly fee, and we want you to reach out early and often. We'd rather spend 10 minutes helping you avoid a bad contract than 10 hours cleaning up after one.

Two reasons: predictability and timing.

On predictability, you know exactly what your legal costs are each month. No surprise invoices, no anxiety about whether a 15-minute question is going to show up on a bill. You budget for it the same way you budget for insurance or accounting. For us, predictable revenue means we can staff appropriately, maintain familiarity with your organization year-round, and deliver faster, better work because we're not starting from scratch every time you call. Over time, we build a mutual relationship and better understand exactly your needs and how we can help.

On timing, the firms that call us only when something breaks spend more money and get worse outcomes than the firms that talk to us regularly. A subscription keeps us in the loop early, when a five-minute conversation can prevent a five-figure problem.

Every subscriber receives a 20% discount on our published flat-fee menu for any work outside their subscription scope. If you're on the Growth Counsel plan and need a third contract reviewed, or want a trademark filed, you don't need to upgrade to a higher tier. You simply request the service at your discounted rate. The tiers cover your baseline needs; the discount handles the rest.

Your subscription secures our availability and dedicated capacity for you, similar to a traditional retainer. You're paying for access to your legal team whenever you need us, not for a fixed quantity of deliverables. If you don't need us for contract review in a particular month, that's a good thing.

At the end of each quarter, any capacity that wasn't called upon is released, and the firm directs a corresponding contribution to our Community Impact Fund, which provides pro bono and reduced-fee legal services to underserved Pennsylvania nonprofits and early-stage social enterprises. Your fees are not donated. The firm allocates its own resources toward community service in connection with capacity that was reserved but not needed.

We negotiate custom scopes for ongoing work relationships regularly. If your organization has needs that don't map neatly onto a tier, whether that's a heavier contract volume, a specialized compliance requirement, a multi-entity structure, or a grant calendar that demands more than quarterly proposals, we'll build a custom engagement with defined deliverables and predictable monthly pricing. Reach out and tell us what you need, and we'll put together a proposal.

In today’s world, if you just need legal answers, you can search them up and get good results. We built this firm to serve the communities that we ourselves live in.

Every subscriber is assigned a dedicated attorney who learns your organization, your contracts, your board, your funding strategy, and your goals. When you call, you reach someone who already knows your situation. Contract reviews are specific to your agreements with your counterparties. Grant readiness assessments evaluate your actual governance and financials. Policy documents are tailored to your organizational structure and operations. We maintain template libraries that accelerate our work and keep your costs down, but the advice and deliverables are specific to you. This is a law firm relationship, not a document generator.

Most grant writers can craft a compelling narrative, but they don't understand corporate governance, IP protection, or the legal structures that funders evaluate when deciding where to award money. Most law firms don't offer grant writing at all.

Our attorneys do both. The same attorney who reviews your contracts, maintains your compliance, and manages your IP portfolio is the one drafting your grant proposals. That means the person writing your application already knows whether your bylaws are current, whether your financial controls will pass funder scrutiny, and whether your organizational documents tell the right story, because they're the ones who built and maintain those documents.

Our attorneys hold Grant Professional Certified (GPC) credentials and are trained in proposal development, budget narratives, and funder strategy alongside their legal practice. The result is a grant application written by someone who understands both the legal and funding sides of your organization, not a handoff between two people who each know half the picture.

• Startup Shield ($500/mo): You just formed your organization or are about to. You need foundational legal support, a few contracts reviewed, and help identifying grant opportunities. You're not yet ready to pursue complex funding or manage an IP portfolio.

• Growth Counsel ($1,000/mo): You're operational, with a small team and an annual budget under $1M. You regularly sign vendor agreements or partnership MOUs, you have (or want) a registered trademark, and you want to build a grant strategy but aren't yet ready to invest in full proposal drafting.

• Full Counsel ($3,000/mo): You're established, with a team of 5–20 and a $1M–$5M budget. You're actively pursuing foundation funding, managing contracts with multiple vendors or partners, and need ongoing governance support. You want a grant proposal produced each quarter and your contracts reviewed and marked up by counsel.

• Fractional General Counsel ($6,000/mo): You're a growth-stage organization with 20+ employees or a $5M+ budget. You need an attorney who attends board meetings, negotiates contracts on your behalf, manages your IP portfolio, and oversees complex state or federal grant submissions. You need a legal partner embedded in your operations who can move seamlessly between a contract negotiation in the morning and a federal grant deadline in the afternoon.

Absolutely, and many of our clients do. Starting at Startup Shield or Growth Counsel lets us learn your organization and build a legal foundation. When your needs grow, upgrading is seamless, and your remaining prepaid balance carries forward as a credit.