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Contract Review Service · Nationwide
Contract Review for Businesses
You get the agreement back marked up, plus a short written summary of what changed, what you should push on, and what is normal and not worth fighting.
Is This You?
When a review earns its place
- A customer sent their paper and it’s forty pages and you don’t know which parts matter.
- You’re three days from signing and you want someone to read it who isn’t the person selling you the deal.
- You’ve signed a few of these already and you’re starting to wonder what you agreed to.
- Your counterparty rejected your redlines and you need to know which positions are worth holding.
What’s Included
What you get back
- The marked-up document — tracked changes in the source format, so you can send it straight on.
- A written summary — what was changed and why, sorted into what you should insist on and what is standard.
- The clauses that decide the deal — liability caps, indemnity, data ownership and export, service levels, term and termination, auto-renewal, assignment on a change of control, and governing law.
- One follow-up call to walk through anything in the summary.
What Gets Looked At
The same backbone, every review
Every review covers the same backbone, in this order.
Liability. Is there a cap, is it a real number, and does it match the size of the deal. An uncapped indemnity beside a capped limitation of liability clause is the most common serious problem in commercial paper.
Data. Who owns it, who can access it, what happens to it at termination, and whether you can actually get it back in a usable format.
Term and exit. How it renews, what notice you owe, and what survives.
Performance. What is promised, what the remedy is when it is missed, and whether the remedy is worth anything.
Change of control. Whether the agreement follows you if you sell, and whether it follows them if they do.
What Shapes The Engagement
Scope, not a price list
Scope and fee are set in writing before any work starts. A review is scoped by the length of the agreement, how many rounds of negotiation it is likely to take, and what is in it. Three things push a review past a standard engagement: a counterparty whose legal team negotiates every clause, a deal structure involving resellers or an OEM arrangement, and regulated data in scope.
Turley Law also drafts agreements from scratch, including a full SaaS set — terms of service, an MSA with order form, and a data processing agreement — each scoped on its own. The first step is a 30-minute consultation with the attorney for $50, credited toward the engagement.
How It Works
Three steps
1 — Send the agreement
Say what the deal is worth, what you are nervous about, and when you need it.
2 — Review, two to four business days
Depends on length. Rush is possible and gets scoped up front, not after.
3 — Marked-up document and summary back
With one call included to walk through it.
Related Reading
Questions?
Good to know
How much does a lawyer charge to review a contract?
It depends on the length of the agreement, how many rounds of negotiation it takes, and what is in it. Scope and fee are set in writing before any work starts. The first step is a 30-minute consultation with the attorney for $50, credited toward the engagement.
How long does a contract review take?
Two to four business days depending on length. If you are against a signing deadline, say so when you send it and you get a yes or no on the timeline up front.
Do you review the other side’s contract or write ours?
Both. Review and redline of someone else’s paper and drafting from scratch are scoped separately, and a full SaaS contract set — terms of service, an MSA with order form, and a data processing agreement — is its own engagement.
What’s a redline?
The document itself marked up — deletions struck through, insertions inserted, comments in the margin — in the original format, so you can send it to the counterparty without retyping anything.
What if the other side rejects the changes?
That is the normal first response and the negotiation starts there. The summary tells you which positions are worth holding and which are worth trading, so you do not spend goodwill on clauses that do not affect you.
Can you review a contract in a state where you aren’t admitted?
Yes. Turley Law handles commercial contract work for companies across the country. The attorney is admitted in Connecticut, New York and Massachusetts, and where an agreement turns on another state’s law in a way that matters, the firm brings in counsel admitted there.
What’s the most common problem in a commercial contract?
An uncapped indemnity sitting beside a capped liability clause, which makes the cap close to meaningless. After that: auto-renewal with a notice window nobody calendared, and data export rights that exist on paper with no mechanism behind them.
Should I have a lawyer review every contract?
No. For a small recurring deal on your own standard paper, the cost does not justify it. It is worth it when the contract is on their paper, when the value is large relative to your revenue, when it runs for years, or when it touches data or IP you care about.
What is a limitation of liability clause and why does it matter?
It caps what either side can be made to pay when something goes wrong. It is usually the single most valuable clause in a commercial agreement, and it is the one most often copied from a template without anyone checking that the number makes sense for the deal. More on liability caps.
Can I just use a template?
For a first small customer, sometimes. Templates fail when the deal gets big enough that someone reads them: the liability cap is missing, the data terms do not match what the product does, and the governing law clause points somewhere inconvenient. Fixing that mid-deal costs more than drafting it once.
Do you handle contract disputes too?
Not every one. Turley Law does not take every dispute; it takes the ones that grow out of the kind of agreements it drafts and reviews, where knowing the deal behind the contract makes the dispute cheaper to run.
What do I need to send you?
The agreement, what the deal is worth, and your deadline. If there is prior correspondence with the counterparty about the terms, send that too.
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