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Legal diagnostic

Legal Diagnostic

 
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Spot The Issues

Sometimes, the hard part isn’t getting answers to your questions — it’s knowing what questions to ask. That’s what this legal diagnostic service is for. Whether you have an official proposal or business plan for me to review, or you’d just like to informally talk through your project with me, I’m here to read, listen, and give you a frank and accessible assessment of what legal issues are likely to come up.

By “unbundling” this kind of issue-spotting assessment and offering it as a standalone service, I’m hoping to make it easier (and cheaper) for you to get clarity on what the likely legal issues are without making you commit in advance to the sometimes-involved and often-expensive legal work of actually solving those problems.

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Don’t Waste Time

For all those times where “I don’t know what I should be worrying about!” is your biggest worry, this should be your first stop. No question too big, no question too small, and no enormous or unpredictable price-tag.

If you’ve got a one-off project you’d like assessed, I offer project-based pricing starting at $200 per diagnostic (though it may need to be higher if the materials you need reviewed are particularly voluminous or complex). If you’d like me to be available for this on an ongoing basis — what I like to think of as the “I know a guy” engagement — I’m happy to discuss a subscription deal.

Oh, and don’t worry: anything you pay me for a diagnostic will be credited towards the bill for any actual problem-solving that you engage me to do once we’ve done the assessment.