Every fee on one page.
No surprises after.
What you see here is what you pay. We put the fee in writing before work begins; if your matter changes, we explain the new scope and price before going on.
General Counsel plans.
Instead of calling a lawyer when something goes wrong, keep one. Each plan is a set number of hours a month with a lawyer who knows you, at a price that doesn't move.
Essential Access
For early-stage companies, working creatives, and lean organizations that need consistent legal guidance.
What’s included
- 5 hours of dedicated counsel monthly
- 48-hour response time
- Quarterly strategy sessions
- Contract review & negotiation
- Email & scheduled call access
- Monthly usage summary
$1,499/month
Book a ConsultationProfessional Access
For growing companies, established talent, and organizations with regular legal needs and strategic priorities.
What’s included
- 10 hours of dedicated counsel monthly
- Same-day response for urgent matters
- Monthly strategy sessions
- Full contract lifecycle support
- Direct Slack/phone access
- Team member access included
$2,950/month
Book a ConsultationFractional General Counsel
A working general counsel seat, for companies, talent enterprises, and nonprofits that need counsel in the room every week.
What’s included
- 20 hours of dedicated counsel monthly
- Same-day response, priority line
- Weekly working sessions
- Board & investor materials, memos, and minutes
- Vendor, employment & commercial paperwork run end-to-end
- Direct Slack/phone for your leadership team
- Quarterly legal-operations review
$5,500/month
Book a ConsultationFlagship General Counsel
A senior outside-counsel relationship shaped around your legal function rather than a monthly hour bucket, in the room for the decisions. For funded startups, established talent with teams, and mid-sized nonprofits. Offered in limited seats.
What’s included
- Embedded outside-counsel lead for your legal function
- Set by the role, not an hour count
- Board meeting attendance
- M&A and financing support
- Crisis management protocols
- Full leadership team access
- Annual Legal Health Check refresh
$7,500/month
Request an IntroductionAnnual billing: pay eleven months in advance and the twelfth month is free. If you end the plan early, the months you used are charged at the monthly rate and the balance is refunded.
Contracts.
Don't know what the document is called? That's normal. Tell us what's happening and we'll name it, price it, and put the fee in writing before you decide anything.
Most contract work lands between $400 and $950. Longer documents, a third round of negotiation, or a matter that grows past what we agreed are priced in writing before we continue, never after. Government and filing fees are always extra and always listed.
Trademarks & intellectual property (IP).
A trademark protects the name or logo you trade under. These are the steps, in the order most people take them. Government (USPTO) fees are extra and stated on every quote.
Beyond trademarks: your work, your name, your licenses
Starting a foundation.
A private foundation, formed and recognized properly, for one fixed fee. The IRS user fee and state filing fees are extra and confirmed with you before filing.
Private Foundation Formation & 1023 Exemption
One defined-scope legal engagement that takes a private foundation from intention to a filed federal exemption application: formed correctly from day one.
$9,500flat fee
Other work, from.
A starting figure is the simple case. The fee for your matter is set in writing, after a short call or an email, before anything begins.
What you're actually paying for.
Legal work is too important to buy on price alone. This is what the fee covers, and what the alternatives don't.
The hourly firm
- You find out what it cost when it's over, and it's usually much more than anticipated.
- Every question you ask is a line on the invoice, so people stop asking.
- The estimate is not the fee. Nobody is held to it.
- The firm earns more when the matter takes longer. Your interests and theirs point different ways.
An AI tool
- It isn't a lawyer. No license, no professional responsibility, no insurance. When it's wrong, as it often is, the loss is yours and there's no one to hold to it.
- Nothing you tell it is privileged. A conversation with your lawyer is protected by law; a conversation with a chatbot can be subpoenaed, and on many consumer tools it can be used to train the product.
- It doesn't know New York. Which clauses are unenforceable here, what a New York court will actually do with the words on the page, what the other side's lawyer will accept: it can't tell you unless you already know what to ask, and how to ask it.
- It makes things up, confidently. Cases that don't exist, “standard” clauses that aren't, and it sounds exactly the same when it's right as when it's wrong.
- It answers the question you asked, not the one you should have asked. It won't tell you the real risk is somewhere you didn't look.
- It can't negotiate. The other side's lawyer will not be on the phone with your chatbot.
- It can't sign, file, or appear for you, and it can't tell you when to walk away.
- It doesn't know your business, your history, or what you agreed to last time.
- It doesn't know when it's out of its depth, and it won't say so.
Clemenza Law Group
- The fee, in writing, before the work. Ask us anything without watching a clock.
- A responsible Managing Partner, admitted in New York since 2009, who either leads or oversees your matter, and is available to take your call.
- A firm that is respected in the industry, and known by the lawyers across the table.
- We've sat as general counsel to companies, talent and nonprofits for years. We know what the other side's lawyer will say before they say it.
- Everything you tell us is privileged.
- Your own private client portal: every document, every invoice, every message, and where your matter stands, any hour of the day.
- A reply within one business day, every time.
- Technology used inside the work, under an attorney's review, so you get the speed without carrying the risk.
- We remember. The next contract starts from what we learned on the last one.
Questions people ask first.
Does the price change mid-matter?
No. The fee in your engagement letter is the fee. If the work grows beyond what we agreed, say a third round of negotiation, we tell you before we continue and you decide. We never bill for work you didn't approve.
What isn't included?
Government filing fees, which we always list on the quote. Work outside what we agreed in writing, which we price first. And if another state's law applies, a lawyer admitted there, whose fee you approve before anything is spent.
What does a monthly plan give me that a fixed fee doesn't?
The conversation. The quick call before you sign something, the question that isn't a document, the board meeting. A monthly plan is a lawyer you already have; a fixed fee is one piece of work. Many clients start with one and move to the other.
What don't you do?
Very little is turned away. Litigation, real estate transactions, tax, and matters governed by another state’s law are placed with counsel we choose and oversee: we make the introduction, stay involved, and say so on the first call rather than the last.
The terms.
Clemenza Law Group provides outside counsel support for New York-law and federal matters, commercial agreements, intellectual property, governance, and legal operations. When another state’s law, court, agency, or regulatory system controls, we coordinate with counsel admitted in that jurisdiction, with scope and fees approved by you before anything is incurred.
Every matter starts with a conflict check and a written engagement letter. No work begins before both.
Plans are month to month. Cancel with thirty days’ written notice and we prorate to the effective date.
Plan hours don’t roll over. Extra hours are available at preferred member rates and confirmed with you before we begin.
The responsible attorney is admitted in New York. A plan does not make the attorney an employee of the client or invoke any state’s in-house counsel exception, and a formal General Counsel or officer title is used only where appropriate, authorized, and documented after a jurisdictional review.
Fees on this page are current when published and may change at any time before an engagement letter is signed. The fee in your engagement letter is the fee you pay.