Quality counsel at founder speed. No billable hour, ever.
When the lawyer is paid by the hour, there's no reward for finishing. So matters drag.
We're paid for the result, not the time. The faster we finish, the better we both do.
You're asked to say yes before you know the price.
You'll see the price before you say yes.
The way it's always been done is the most profitable way it's ever been done. Why change it?
Harnessing AI and automation to improve quality, consistency and speed.
You're billed like a Fortune 500 company, with a seed-stage bank account.
Quality work at startup pricing.
Kyle Westaway was a startup founder first. As a client of traditional firms, he saw the model was broken for founders. So, in 2008 he launched Westaway, a law firm designed from first principles exclusively for founders. Since then, Westaway has helped more than a thousand founders go from concept to scale.
Watch Kyle's story →Our founders are backed by
Sequoia
Y Combinator
First Round
General Catalyst
Founders Fund
Thrive
Spark Capital
Redpoint
CapitalG
Techstars
500 Global
AshokaWe apply AI to ensure higher quality, better consistency and faster turnarounds. But humans are in the loop every step of the way.
You're going after the big customers. Good. The other side will bring an experienced legal team. Make sure you do too. We've negotiated against the largest companies in the world for our founders and closed over $1 billion in deals for them.
We've helped our founders close deals with
Walmart
Google
Microsoft
JPMorgan
Goldman Sachs
Pfizer
Amazon
General Motors
Starbucks
Accenture
Morgan Stanley
SonyYour investors' lawyers will dig through everything. Find the problems before they do with your free due diligence checklist.
At a traditional firm, partners bill $800 to $1,500 an hour with no cap, so you learn the price when the invoice arrives. Surprise bills are rarely surprisingly good. At Westaway, every project is a flat fee you see before you say yes. See the Flat Fees page →
We scope the project on the first call, quote one price, and you approve it before any work starts. The price covers the project to completion, including the back-and-forth. If the scope changes, because the deal changes or you ask for more, we tell you and agree a new price before the work does. You will never get a surprise bill from us.
A flat fee is one price for one project: a SAFE round, an incorporation, a contract. A subscription is one monthly price for ongoing counsel: General Counsel covers your day-to-day legal work; Contract Counsel covers contract review and negotiation only. If you're looking for an ongoing legal partner, a subscription is usually the better fit, and often much less expensive than working project by project.
A quick fifteen-minute call with a member of our team to learn about your company and scope the project. You tell us what you're building and what you need; we tell you how we'd approach it and what it would cost. If it's a fit, you have a scope and a flat-fee price within a day. If it isn't, we'll say so and point you somewhere better. No pitch, no clock running.
Kyle is the attorney on every matter, supported by a senior paralegal with 20+ years of experience and the technology behind them. No rotating cast of associates. We use software for the repetitive work so you pay for judgment, not legwork.
Clerky is good at the simple work, and we're a Clerky preferred partner. Where founders tend to need us is at the edges: a review of what they've done on the platform, or a term the platform doesn't allow for. We handle both, on Clerky where we can and off it where we can't.
You get a timeline with the quote. We're paid for the result, not the hour, so finishing fast is in our interest too. The rest depends on how quickly you send feedback.
From an idea and a pitch deck through Series C or D. We stay until you're big enough to bring legal in-house.
