Industries/Professional Services
Professional Services.
Engagement terms and IP frameworks for consulting firms.
Overview
Consultancies, agencies, engineers, architects and advisory firms live and die by the strength of their engagement letters, scoping documents and IP terms. We make sure yours protect margin and manage scope creep before it starts.
Common challenges
Where we're usually pulled in.
- Scope creep and unbilled work under fixed-fee engagements
- IP ownership over deliverables and background methodologies
- Contractor vs employee misclassification risk
- Client indemnity and liability caps that survive procurement
How we help
Services tuned for this industry.
Engagement letters & MSAs
Client-facing templates that scale from SOW to enterprise MSA without rewriting the base.
Sub-contractor agreements
Independent contractor agreements that manage IP, confidentiality and non-solicit properly.
Liability & indemnity
Practical caps and carve-outs benchmarked against Australian professional indemnity insurance.
Professions we support
Legal for your specific role.
Pick your profession for a tailored view of how we help — with cross-links to the insights and services most relevant to your work.
Management Consultants
→Engagement letters and IP frameworks for consulting firms.
Architects
→Client agreements, IP and PI-aligned liability for architects.
Engineers
→Consulting engineer agreements and liability frameworks.
Marketing Agencies
→MSA, media buying and IP terms for agencies.
Social Media Marketers
→Creator, ad-buy and ACL-safe promotion terms.
Bookkeepers & Accountants
→Engagement letters, TPB compliance and outsourced services.
Offshore Staffing & Labour Hire Providers
→Licensing, BPO agreements and cross-border staffing paper.
FAQs
Questions we hear often.
- Can you build us a signable template library?
- Yes. We deliver a playbook so your account managers can send agreements without touching legal every time.
Talk to us
Legal built for professional services.
Send us a note about what you're working on. We'll respond within one business day and, if we're a fit, book a free 15-minute consultation with a senior lawyer.