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Commercial Contract Attorney
We read them, fix them, and tell you what to sign.
Drafting, review, and negotiation of the agreements a business actually runs on — master services agreements, statements of work, client terms, vendor and supply deals, NDAs, and contractor agreements. For small and mid-sized companies in CT, NY, and MA.
Who This Is For
Who we do this for
The Common Case
You are being asked to sign someone else’s paper
A customer, a platform, or a vendor sent forty pages and a deadline. You need to know what is actually in it and which three things are worth pushing back on.
Selling
Your own agreement has not changed since you wrote it
It was fine when the business was smaller. Now it is signed by customers who are bigger than you were, and it has not caught up.
Cleaning Up
Nobody can find what you signed
Different versions in different inboxes, exhibits missing, renewal dates unknown. That is a contract audit before it is a drafting job.
Contract Services
What we handle
Contract Drafting
New agreements written for your business, not a fill-in-the-blank form.
Contract Review & Redlines
Someone else's contract, marked up and explained in plain English.
Negotiation
Direct negotiation with the other side's counsel to close the gap.
NDAs & Confidentiality
Mutual and one-way NDAs that actually protect what you're sharing.
Templates & Playbooks
Reusable templates and negotiation playbooks for the contracts you sign often.
How Engagement Works
How the work runs
Contract work runs the same way whether it is one agreement or the whole file.
A $50 consultation
Thirty minutes on the deal, the deadline, and who has the leverage. Credited toward any engagement.
Scope in writing
What gets reviewed or drafted, what does not, and what it costs — agreed before any work starts.
Redline and explain
You get the marked-up document and a plain-English note on what changed and why it matters. Not a list of clause numbers.
Negotiate or sign
If it needs negotiating, that happens directly with the other side’s counsel. If it is ready, you sign knowing what you agreed to.
A contract is where risk gets decided long before anything goes wrong. The clause nobody read at signing is the clause the other side quotes back two years later. Fixing it up front costs a fraction of arguing about it afterward.
The Paperwork
The contracts a business actually signs
Client and customer agreements
Master services agreements and the statements of work that hang off them, terms of service, order forms, and subscription terms. The MSA sets the rules once; the SOW should be the only thing that changes per engagement. When those two get collapsed into one document, every new project reopens the whole negotiation.
Vendor, supply, and partner contracts
Supply and reseller agreements, referral and partnership terms, and the mutual and one-way NDAs that come before them. On the buying side the questions are auto-renewal, price escalators, and what happens if the vendor fails; on the selling side they are exclusivity and what you just promised about volume.
Contractor and employee paperwork
Independent contractor agreements, offer letters, confidentiality and invention-assignment terms, and restrictive covenants that are drafted to survive review in the state where they would be enforced. Always drafted for the company.
Technology and data agreements
SaaS agreements, software licenses, enterprise MSAs, and the data processing terms that a customer’s security review will eventually ask for. Relevant to any business that stores customer data, which by now is most of them.
What We Look For
Where contracts usually fail
- A liability cap that does not do what you think. A cap set at fees paid means nothing if consequential damages were never excluded. The exclusion and the cap are two separate clauses, and a contract with only one of them is a contract with neither.
- Service levels the business cannot hit. Uptime numbers and response times copied from a template become a breach the first month somebody is on holiday. If there is no remedy attached, the customer supplies one.
- No data terms at all. Most legacy agreements were written before the company touched customer data. The gap surfaces during a customer’s security review, at the worst possible moment in the sales cycle.
- Auto-renewal with a notice window nobody tracks. Thirty days before the anniversary, in a document filed two years ago. This one costs money quietly and for years.
- Indemnity that runs one direction. Frequently the direction that was not read closely, because it was on page nine of the other side’s paper.
Those are the same questions a contract audit asks across every agreement already on file, rather than one at a time as they come up.
Recent Work
Contracts we have been in
Enterprise Software Client
Negotiated a six-figure on-premise software licensing agreement.
SaaS Company · Municipal Clients
Advised on and negotiated SaaS agreements for services delivered to municipalities.
Maritime Software · South Pacific
Advised on a software sales agreement for software used aboard commercial ships in the South Pacific.
Modeling Agency · Talent Contracts
Advised on model engagement agreements on behalf of a modeling agency.
How fast can you turn a contract around?
It depends on length and how much is wrong with it. What you get up front is a realistic date rather than an optimistic one, and if a deadline is not workable you hear that before you engage rather than after.
Can you just tell me the three things to fix?
Yes, and that is often the right engagement. A full redline is not always what the situation needs — sometimes you need to know where the real exposure is and whether it is worth spending negotiating capital on.
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome.
$50
30-min consult, credited
200+
Contracts negotiated
3 states
CT, MA & NY
In writing
Scope before work begins
Related Reading
Common Questions
Commercial Contracts FAQ
Should I use a template I found online?
A generic template can work as a starting point, but it rarely fits your actual deal or protects you the way a document built for your business would. Have it reviewed before you sign anything based on one.
Do you review contracts, or only draft them?
Both. If someone else sent you a contract, we'll review it and tell you where the risk is. If you need one from scratch, we'll draft it.
We agreed to it verbally. Is that binding?
Sometimes, and that is the problem. Many verbal agreements are enforceable, but proving the terms is a different exercise from proving the deal, and some categories have to be in writing to be enforced at all. Where there is a signed document, a court starts with what the document says — not with what either side remembers agreeing to.
Can you review contracts we signed years ago?
Yes. That is what a contract audit is — a pass over the agreements already in force, looking for auto-renewals, liability terms, and missing data provisions, delivered as one written report instead of one-off reviews.
Before you sign it.
Send us the contract. We'll tell you where the risk is — and how we'd handle it.