Las empresas del sur de la Florida que facturan entre cinco y cincuenta millones firman contratos que nadie lee, despiden empleados sin documentación y operan bajo acuerdos redactados para un negocio que ya no existe. No por descuido. Porque cada pregunta cuesta seiscientos dólares la hora y el reloj empieza a correr con el saludo.
Nos convertimos en su abogado por una tarifa mensual fija. Usted llama antes de firmar, no después.
Una empresa no fracasa por contratar al abogado equivocado. Fracasa porque durante cuatro años no llamó a ninguno, y esos cuatro años se acumularon.
Esa es la forma de casi todas las disputas comerciales que ve esta firma. No una pregunta legal difícil mal respondida. Una pregunta común que nunca se hizo, porque hacerla tenía un precio y el riesgo parecía teórico.
Las empresas de este tamaño ocupan un punto medio incómodo. Demasiado grandes para operar con acuerdos de palabra y plantillas descargadas. Demasiado pequeñas para justificar un abogado interno en nómina por doscientos mil al año más beneficios. Así que terminan con lo peor de ambos: llaman a una firma por horas solo cuando algo ya salió mal, y pagan tarifas premium para limpiar lo que el trabajo preventivo habría evitado por una fracción.
Outside general counsel removes the price of asking. The monthly figure is fixed and known. Reviewing the vendor agreement costs the same as not reviewing it. Once that is true the behavior changes on its own, and the problems that used to arrive fully formed start arriving as questions instead.
Cifras ilustrativas basadas en tarifas por hora típicas del sur de la Florida y rangos de acuerdo en disputas comerciales comunes. Solo para comparación. No son predicciones de costo en ningún asunto específico ni implican resultado alguno.
Todo lo siguiente está cubierto por la tarifa mensual en el nivel correspondiente. Nada genera una factura aparte, una solicitud de reposición de anticipo, ni una conversación sobre el alcance.
Drafting, review and negotiation of the agreements your business runs on, from one-page orders to master services agreements.
Your standard paper and theirs. Indemnity, limitation of liability, venue, termination and auto-renewal reviewed before signature.
Mutual and one-way NDAs, non-circumvention and confidentiality terms for deals, vendors and prospective partners.
Offer letters, employment agreements, handbooks, policies and the paperwork that decides how a termination goes.
Separation agreements, releases and the documentation that closes an employment relationship cleanly.
Independent contractor agreements and classification review, one of the most common and most expensive exposures at this size.
Non-compete, non-solicitation and confidentiality provisions drafted to what Florida courts will actually enforce.
Formation, qualification and structure for new entities, subsidiaries and holding companies across your operations.
Governance documents reflecting the company as it is now, including buy-sell terms, valuation and exit mechanics.
Minute books, resolutions, consents and the governance record lenders and buyers ask for at the worst possible moment.
Lease review, renewal negotiation, assignment and landlord correspondence when the space no longer fits.
Sent on your behalf and answered on your behalf. Most commercial disputes are decided in the first written exchange.
Pre-suit demand and negotiation on unpaid invoices, and the terms that make the next one collectible.
Representation, distribution and licensing agreements, including exclusivity, territory and termination terms.
The five-minute questions you currently answer by guessing. No meter, no minimum, no invoice.
Twenty minutes, no charge. What the company signs, who it employs, and what is currently unpapered. If you do not need a retainer, we say so.
We review your existing contracts, entity documents and employment paper, then return a written list of what is exposed and what it would take to fix.
Tier selected, scope and carve-outs stated in writing, response times committed in the engagement letter. Signed and started inside a week.
You call before you sign. Monthly or quarterly review depending on tier, and an annual audit so the paper never drifts again.
Business owners comparison shop this category, and firms that hide the number lose to firms that do not. Here is the number.
Equipos pequeños con flujo constante de contratos y consultas periódicas.
Empresas con empleados, documentos comerciales recurrentes y exposición real.
Empresas donde lo legal es un punto fijo de agenda, no una interrupción ocasional.
Mes a mes tras un término inicial de tres meses. Treinta días de aviso por escrito para terminar. Las horas no usadas no se acumulan. Cuando un mes exceda materialmente la asignación, se le informa antes de realizar el trabajo, no después.
| Hourly Law Firm | Outside General Counsel | In-House Hire | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monthly Cost | Variable. Fifteen hours at $600 is roughly $9,000 | $1,950 to $6,500, fixed and known | $19,000 to $25,000 fully loaded |
| Billing Method | Six-minute increments, billed in arrears | One figure, agreed in advance | Salary, benefits, payroll tax, recruiting |
| Cost Of A Quick Question | A billed call and a line item | Included at every tier | Included |
| Who Learns Your Business | Whoever is staffed that week | The same attorney, every matter | Your employee |
| Preventive Work | Rarely, because it bills the same as a crisis | Continuously, because it costs nothing extra | Continuously |
| Time To Start | Days | One week | Three to six months of hiring |
| Bilingual Capability | Varies by firm and by staffing | English and Spanish throughout | Depends entirely on the hire |
| If You Need To Stop | Stop calling | Thirty days’ written notice | Severance and a vacancy |
Hourly and in-house figures reflect published market ranges for South Florida commercial legal work and in-house counsel compensation. They describe the market generally and are not statements about any particular firm or lawyer.
Stated in the engagement letter before you sign. There is no version of this arrangement where the boundary is left vague and discovered later.
Retainer clients receive carved-out work at $395 per hour against the firm’s standard rate, with scheduling priority. Where a matter requires a jurisdiction the firm is not admitted in, we say so and coordinate local counsel rather than working around it.
“She reviews everything our company signs now. In the first quarter she found an auto-renewal and an indemnity clause that between them were worth more than a year of the retainer.”
“The operating agreement had never been updated after our buy-in. She rewrote the valuation and exit terms before there was a dispute, which is the only time that work is cheap.”
“What I appreciated was that she told me what I did not need. She could have sold me three more documents and she talked me out of two of them.”
“We came for an entity formation and left understanding how the structure, the tax election and my personal estate plan fit together. Nobody had connected those three for us before.”
“Being able to negotiate in Spanish with our suppliers and in English with our customers, through one attorney, removed a step we did not realize was costing us.”
“A separation that would have become a claim was handled properly the first time. The documentation existed because she had put it in place a year earlier.”
Reviews reflect the experience of individual clients and are used with permission. They are not a guarantee, warranty or prediction regarding the outcome of any other matter.
Some months you use two hours and some months twelve. The point of a fixed fee is that you call in the light months rather than waiting until it is a heavy one. If usage runs consistently below your tier across a full quarter, the firm moves you down.
You are told before the work happens, never on an invoice afterward. You then decide whether to authorize additional hours at the reduced rate, move up a tier, or hold the work until the following month.
Keep them. This does not replace specialist counsel on a transaction or a lawsuit. It covers the ninety percent of legal work too small to justify a project engagement and too consequential to handle by guessing.
Two business days at Counsel, one business day at General Counsel, same day for urgent matters at Chief Counsel. Response times are written into the engagement letter.
Yes, within Florida, North Carolina and the District of Columbia. Where a matter requires another state, the firm says so and coordinates local counsel.
Yes. Many clients begin with a single contract review or an operating agreement and move to a monthly arrangement later. There is no requirement to start on a retainer.
Consultations are held by telephone, by video, or in person at the Brickell office by appointment. Bilingual in English and Spanish.
Scheduling a consultation does not create an attorney-client relationship. Please do not include confidential details in the booking notes.
We ask what your company signs, who it employs, and what is currently unpapered. Then we tell you which tier fits, or that you do not need one yet. Both answers happen regularly.
If the call surfaces something urgent, we say so on the call rather than saving it for a proposal.
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