General Counsel is Westaway's full-service subscription. A partner who helps you scale smarter without the surprise bills.
$20,000 one month, $1,000 the next. You find out when the invoice lands.
One number, every month. Heavy months and quiet months average out.
The billable hour incentivizes your lawyer to go slower, not faster.
We're paid to finish, not to bill. Deals close at founder speed.
When the meter runs on every email and every call, you skip reaching out, and that's how big mistakes happen.
Unlimited calls and emails. Ask any question, big or small, without fear of a surprise bill.
You're going after the big customers. Good. The other side will bring an experienced legal team. Make sure you do too. We've negotiated against the largest companies in the world for our founders and closed over $1 billion in deals for them.
We've helped our founders close deals with
Walmart
Google
Microsoft
JPMorgan
Goldman Sachs
Pfizer
Amazon
General Motors
Starbucks
Accenture
Morgan Stanley
SonyMatch the plan to your stage and how many contracts you sign. Build is for founders in build mode, getting the company set up and the product built (1 contract review a month). Launch is for startups going to market and ready to close deals with customers (5). Grow is for startups growing fast and closing a steady stream of contracts (7). Scale is for more mature companies closing a high volume of deals every month (9). Unused contract reviews don't roll over to the next month. Need more in a month? Each additional contract review is $2,000, our regular flat fee. You can move up any time.
Yes really. The whole point of General Counsel is to be there when you need us. By removing the billable hour, we've made it frictionless for you to reach out to us on issues big and small. It turns legal from a transaction into a partnership.
We work smarter, not harder. Every General Counsel client gets Kyle as their partner, a senior paralegal with 20+ years of experience, and the automation and AI we've built into the practice. That's how a lean team keeps the price flat.
General Counsel covers your day-to-day legal work. Not included: priced financing rounds, M&A, tax, regulatory and international structuring. We handle those for GC clients as flat-fee projects. Plans carry a 12-month commitment.
Our cost savings are based on the price to get the services on a per-project basis here at Westaway. If numbers excite you, check out this Google Sheet that gives an itemized breakdown for each General Counsel Plan. All calculations are based on our publicly available transparent pricing list averaged over 12 months. Of course, keep in mind that our prices tend to be 20-40% less than most startup law firms, so the cost savings compared to those firms will be significantly greater.
Contract review includes reviewing, editing and negotiating any contract that is 20 pages or less with any counterparty.
A startup General Counsel is a strategic legal advisor who partners with the senior leadership team to steer a young company through critical legal matters. More than just an in-house lawyer, a General Counsel helps shape overall strategy and advises on key legal issues from incorporation to funding to intellectual property. With deep expertise across corporate law, a General Counsel guides startups through major milestones like raising capital, hiring talent, drafting contracts, and establishing policies and procedures. An adept startup General Counsel understands both the legal and business implications of strategic decisions, allowing them to provide tailored guidance on mitigating risk while enabling growth. By leveraging legal knowledge and instincts, a trusted General Counsel empowers leadership to build the strongest legal foundation possible in the early days of a startup.
Startups need a General Counsel to provide expert legal guidance from day one. An experienced startup GC becomes a strategic advisor, getting to know the business to offer tailored advice. Over time, the GC builds valuable institutional knowledge that informs wise counsel as the company grows. Rather than scrambling to find legal help when needs arise, startups benefit enormously from having a startup General Counsel ready to steer them through the twists and turns in the road ahead. With a trusted legal partner, founders can focus on innovation while mitigating risk.
