Service
Overflow Legal Support for Busy Teams
A senior lawyer clearing the excess contract volume — month to month, at a fixed fee, working from your templates and your positions.
In short
Overflow legal support is a senior lawyer taking the excess volume your team cannot absorb — usually contract review and negotiation — month to month, at a fixed fee, working from your templates and your positions.
Next step: send us a rough monthly volume and the types of agreement, and we will quote a fixed monthly fee. Start here.
Nobody has left. Nobody is on leave. There is simply more legal work arriving than the people you have can get through — and the queue is now the bottleneck on revenue. Overflow support is the pressure valve: your team keeps the work that needs internal knowledge, and a senior external lawyer clears the rest.
What overflow usually looks like
- A growth quarter where sales contracts are stacking up behind one reviewer
- A tender or funding round absorbing the whole legal function while business-as-usual contracts wait
- Supplier and customer renewals landing in the same window
- A one-person legal team that cannot take annual leave because the queue has no second reader
- An operations or finance lead reviewing contracts because there is no lawyer, and it is no longer sustainable
The work we take
- Customer and supplier contract review and negotiation against your fallback positions
- NDAs, purchase orders, variations and renewals — the volume work that clogs a queue
- Second-reader review on agreements someone internal has already marked up
- Updating a template that keeps generating the same negotiation
- Clearing a backlog once, then holding the steady state
How we stay inside your positions
Overflow only works if the answers match what your business would have said. We work from your templates and your agreed fallback positions, and anything outside them comes back to you as a flagged decision rather than a decision we made on your behalf. If there is no written playbook — common for businesses without an in-house lawyer — we build a short one in the first month, and it stays yours.
Turnaround and volume
We agree a monthly volume and a turnaround standard at the start, typically routine agreements back within two business days and anything urgent same day. If the volume changes, the fee changes at the monthly review — you are not locked into a number that no longer matches the work.
Overflow, or something else?
- Overflow support — your team stays in place; we take the excess. This page.
- Temporary legal counsel — a seat is empty and needs filling for a period.
- Parental leave cover — a defined cover period with a planned return.
- Fractional General Counsel — an ongoing senior legal partner, not a volume valve.
- Secondment — a lawyer embedded in your team, working as one of yours.
Frequently asked questions
Do we have to commit for a long period?
No. Overflow support runs month to month against an agreed volume, and you can raise it, lower it or pause it at each monthly review.
Can you just clear a backlog and stop?
Yes. A one-month backlog clearance is a common way to start, and plenty of businesses stop there.
Who does the client or supplier deal with?
Whichever is cleaner for you. We can negotiate directly in your name, or stay behind your team and provide the markups and positions.
Is this cheaper than using a law firm panel?
It is priced differently: a fixed monthly fee for an agreed volume rather than hourly billing per matter, so routine review volume stops producing unpredictable invoices.
What if the overflow turns out to be permanent?
Then the honest answer is that you need a standing resource, and we would move you to a fractional GC arrangement or help you scope a hire.
Two ways to start
Get a fixed fee before any work starts.
Answer a few short questions, attach your documents if you have them, and a senior lawyer replies with the scope and the price.
Know what you need? Request a fixed-fee quote and upload your documents. Not sure of scope? Book a short call with a senior lawyer instead.