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Project-Based Legal Support
Contract stack rebuilds, privacy uplifts, ESOPs, capital raises — the big pieces of legal work, scoped and delivered on fixed fees.
Project-based legal support is a defined body of legal work — scoped, priced and delivered on a fixed fee with a delivery date. It sits between a one-off matter and an ongoing retainer, and it is how most in-house teams and scale-ups tackle the "big pieces" of legal work without blowing the annual legal budget.
The Projects Businesses Actually Run
- Contract stack rebuild — a full refresh of MSAs, SaaS terms, NDAs, employment agreements and standard-form templates so sales stops relying on old Word documents
- Privacy uplift — audit against the current Privacy Act, updated collection notices, refreshed privacy policy and staff training
- ESOP rollout — employee share option plan designed to qualify for the start-up concession, with plan rules, offer letters and grant mechanics
- Capital raise — SAFE or priced round, subscription agreement, shareholders deed refresh
- Compliance remediation — post-audit fix-up across ACL, unfair contract terms, industry regulation
- Corporate restructure — group cleanup, IP consolidation, holding company insertion ahead of a sale
- Pre-sale legal readiness — the tidy-up before a due-diligence process starts
Why "Project" Beats "Retainer" for This Work
Retainers are built for volume — the ongoing flow of contracts and questions. Projects are built for concentration — one deliverable, one team, one price, one deadline. If the work has a clear start and end, project pricing is almost always cheaper and cleaner than running it through hourly billing or absorbing it into a retainer.
How Envision Runs a Legal Project
- Scoping call — 30 minutes to understand what "done" looks like
- Written scope and fixed fee — inclusions, exclusions, delivery date and price before any work starts
- Weekly status — progress against the scope, anything blocking, anything out of scope
- Handover — the deliverable, plus documentation your team can maintain
When It Rolls Into a Retainer
Many projects — especially contract stack rebuilds and privacy uplifts — surface enough ongoing work that a retainer makes sense afterwards. There is no obligation. If it fits, the project pricing is credited against the first month of retainer.
Related
- Fractional General Counsel — the retainer product
- Legal Resourcing
- Lawyers on Demand Australia
- Legal Health Check — a free scoping tool
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