Scale your business.
Don’t stress about legal.
Get ongoing legal counsel for your startup at a fixed monthly fee.
- Save time
- Save money
- No surprise bills
The dreaded billable hour should not slow down your growth.
To avoid high legal fees founders often skip, delay, or DIY their legal needs. But without proper legal counsel, you risk making costly mistakes, such as:
- Making uninformed “gut” decisions.
- Using Google as your lawyer.
- Drafting your own contracts.
- Focusing on unimportant issues and slowing down deals.
- Entering due diligence unprepared.
- Missing opportunities.
Set your business up for success.
You have enough on your plate. Legal should not be an additional source of stress. Get an attorney in your corner to avoid costly mistakes, and breathe easy knowing you’ll never get a surprise legal bill.
Get fractional General Counsel for your startup.
General Counsel is a new approach to law for startups. At Westaway, you can get your own fractional general counsel for a flat monthly fee. Our plans provide ongoing legal services for all the day-to-day needs of high-growth startups so they can scale with peace of mind that legal is taken care of.
- Book your free consult.
- Choose your plan.
- Scale with confidence.
100 Day Promise
We promise to get your legal house in order within the first 100 days. First, we put out any existing legal “fires”, then we draft your custom contracts so you’re equipped to grow with confidence.
TRUSTED BY ALUM OF:
Why founders like you love General Counsel.
- Know your legal house is in order.
- Control costs.
- Access to an attorney whenever needed.
- Close deals faster.
- Avoid surprise legal bills.
- Smooth venture capital due diligence.
- Level up your legal knowledge.
- Attorneys who think like founders.
- Focus on scaling your startup.
- Make smarter decisions.
- Save time.
- Save money.
Choose your plan.
We offer three plans that meet the needs of startups at every stage of growth.
Compare plans.
LAUNCH | GROW | SCALE | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unlimited Calls / Emails |  | | |
| Contract Reviews Per Month | 2 | 6 | 10 |
| Incorporation | | | |
| Master Service Agreement | | | |
| SaaS Agreement | | | |
| Employee Agreement | | | |
| Independent Contractor Agreement | | | |
| Advisor Agreement | | | |
| Confidential Information and Invention Assignment Agreement | | | |
| Separation Agreement | | | |
| Mutual NDA | | | |
| Unilateral NDA | | | |
| Terms of Service | | | |
| Privacy Policy | | | |
| Stock Plan | | | |
| Stock Grant | | | |
| Stock Option Grant | | | |
| Cap Table Management | | | |
| SAFE | | | |
| Convertible Note | | | |
| Series Seed Financing |  | | |
| Series A Financing | | | |
| Series B Financing | | | |
| Monthly Cost | $3,000 | $6,000 | $9,000 |
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FAQ
Which General Counsel Plan is best for me?
The beauty of General Counsel is that you can choose the plan that fits your needs. However, in general:
- Launch is best for Pre-seed Startups, Solo Consultants, Small Agencies, and Small and Growing Businesses.
- Grow is best for Seed Stage Startups, Boutique Consulting Firms, Boutique Agencies, Mid-sized Businesses.
- Scale is best for Series A / B Startups, Consulting Firms, Agencies, Mature Businesses.
Unlimited calls and emails, really?
Yes really. The whole point of General Counsel is to be there when you need us. By removing the billable hour, we’ve made it frictionless for you to reach out to us on issues big and small. This completely changes the dynamic of the relationship from transactional to partnership.
This seems a little too good to be true. How can you make this work?
We work smarter, not harder. Because we designed the firm specifically for entrepreneurs, from day one we’ve been relentlessly focused on the efficient delivery of quality legal services. Our model is built on the 3 Ps: (1) Partner – Each General Counsel client is paired with a Partner with 10+ years experience in startup law. (2) Paralegal – The partner is supported by a Senior Paralegal with 20+ years of experience. (3) Process – We’ve invested in automation (and are exploring AI) to make our process quick, smooth and highly accurate.
What is not included in General Counsel?
We’ve been working with founders for over a decade. From our experience, General Counsel covers about 90% of a startup’s legal needs. Although issues like regulation, taxation, international structuring and M&A are not included within the scope of General Counsel, everything listed above is included. When projects are out of scope, we often work with our General Counsel clients on a per project basis.
How do you calculate the cost savings?
Our cost savings are based on the price to get the services on a per-project basis here at Westaway. If numbers excite you, check out this Google Sheet that gives an itemized breakdown for each General Counsel Plan. All calculations are based on our publicly available transparent pricing list averaged over 12 months. Of course, keep in mind that our prices tend to be 20-40% less than most startup law firms, so the cost savings compared to those firms will be significantly greater.
What types of contracts are included under contract review?
Contract review includes reviewing, editing and negotiating any contract that is 20 pages or less with any counterparty.
