No one should have to choose between legal coverage and a full-time hire. The best decisions get made when counsel is already in the room.
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Senior Counsel, Fixed Cost
Companies get the General Counsel experience without the commitment of a full-time salary, bonus, equity, and benefits. Individuals get it without a firm that bills for every call, email, and six-minute increment. One flat monthly rate either way.
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One Advisor, Not a Rotating Cast
No re-explaining your business to a new lawyer every time. One advisor who already knows your company, your contracts, and your risk tolerance.
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One Person. Full Picture.
Contracts, outside counsel, compliance, and negotiations all run through one person who has complete context and keeps nothing in silos.
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Proactive, Not Reactive
Most people call a lawyer when something goes wrong. First Chair clients already have counsel in the room before it does.
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You’ll Understand What You Signed
Every document comes back explained in plain language, not just marked up and returned. Clients leave knowing what they agreed to and why it mattered, so the next deal is easier to read than the last.
Who We Serve
Built for the moment before you have a legal team.
Growing companies reach a point where legal decisions are happening constantly. Vendor contracts, hiring agreements, financing rounds, IP questions. But they’re not ready to commit to a full-time General Counsel. First Chair steps into that role at a fraction of the cost, embedded in your business from day one.
Athletes and individual talent sign more agreements than most small companies do. NIL deals, endorsements, agency and representation agreements, NDAs, leases, employment terms for a chef or trainer or assistant. There are agents, managers, and accountants in the picture, but no one whose job is the legal side of all of it. So notices and demand letters arrive and sit unopened, and the first real look at a contract happens after something goes wrong. First Chair is the one person watching all of it, for a fee that doesn’t climb every time you ask a question.
Founders shouldn’t have to choose between doing it themselves or paying hourly rates that punish them for calling. A flat monthly subscription means senior legal judgment is simply part of how the company runs.
What every client needs is the same thing: someone who already knows their situation, so they never have to start from scratch. That’s what First Chair delivers.
Law is not a product. It’s a relationship. And the right relationship changes everything.
How Reviews Work
Every contract. Read by counsel.
No software stands between you and your attorney. Every contract you send is read clause by clause, and you get a plain-language summary of what matters: what's standard, what's risky, and what to push back on, before you sign anything.
Direct Review
Send a contract, get a clear answer: what it means, what's risky, and what to negotiate.
Standard Documents
NDAs, vendor agreements, and offer letters drafted or reviewed as part of your subscription.
Direct Line
Call, email, or message, whatever's fastest. No portal to learn, no ticket to open.
Why This, Not a Law Firm
Three moments this solves for you.
Not next week. Today.
Before You Sign
You're about to sign something and you're not sure what you're agreeing to. There's no time to shop for a lawyer. You need someone who already knows your business on the phone in an hour, not next week.
One flat fee. Call anytime.
Before It Gets Expensive
A lawyer who bills by the hour makes you think twice before calling. So you don't call, and the small thing becomes a big one. Flat monthly means you call the moment something feels off.
Same counsel. Every time.
No Starting Over
Every new lawyer starts from zero. Your contracts, your history, your risk tolerance. Ours doesn't. We already know your business, so every call moves fast.
Legal Insights, Monthly.
Contract guidance and deal strategy, written by counsel.
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Your first call is always free.
Thirty minutes. No pressure. We’ll understand your situation and tell you honestly whether we’re the right fit.