Our approach
How working with MB Legal works.
From the first conversation to the work itself: how an engagement starts, the ways to structure one, and what the working relationship looks like once it is under way.
Getting started
How an engagement starts
Five steps from the first conversation to the first piece of work.
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Step 1: Talk through the issue
Start with the business, the question, and what a useful outcome looks like. Reach out through the contact form, by email, or by phone.
Please hold back sensitive details about the matter until the firm confirms it can help.
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Step 2: Conflict check
Before the firm can confirm representation, it completes a conflict check. Submitting the contact form or sending an email does not create an attorney-client relationship.
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Step 3: Agree scope and price
Choose a defined project or ongoing support, with expectations set at the outset. For a project, the scope and the fee are agreed before the work begins.
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Step 4: Sign the engagement letter
The attorney-client relationship begins when the firm and the client have signed an engagement letter covering the scope of the representation.
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Step 5: Move forward
Get clear advice and documents you can put to work.
Ways to work together
The right arrangement for the work ahead.
Three ways to structure an engagement. The right one depends on how often legal questions come up and how well defined the work is.
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Subscription
Monthly counsel for continuing needs and a lasting working relationship.
A good fit
When legal questions come up regularly and each one benefits from knowing the last.
How it works
- A fixed monthly fee for a pre-determined allotment of general counsel work.
- Structured around what the business actually generates, not a standard package.
- Unused allotment rolls over to the next month.
- Work outside the agreed scope is billed at a discounted rate rather than standard hourly.
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Flat-fee project
A defined piece of work, with scope and price agreed at the start.
A good fit
When the work is one agreement, one policy, or one specific question.
How it works
- Scope and fee agreed at the outset.
- Many engagements start this way.
- No requirement to begin an ongoing subscription.
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Hourly
Flexible support for matters that need room to develop.
A good fit
When the shape of the work is not yet clear enough to fix a scope.
Once the work is under way
What the working relationship looks like
- Advice from the lawyer doing the work
- The person you talk through the issue with is the lawyer who does the work and makes the judgment calls.
- Context that carries forward
- In an ongoing relationship, the individual matters are connected. A customer agreement may raise a privacy issue; a hiring decision may involve ownership of the work an employee creates. Working with the same counsel over time means those decisions are made with the company’s contracts, people, priorities, and earlier choices already in view.
- Regular check-ins
- Routine check-ins happen in person or virtually, so the legal work stays connected to what the business is doing.
- Alongside your team and advisers
- The role often involves working with leadership, finance, HR, security, and technical teams, and alongside insurance brokers, accountants, litigation counsel, or specialized counsel as the matter requires.
- When a dispute surfaces
- The same counsel handles the front end: pre-suit strategy, demand letters, insurance tenders, and the early positioning that often resolves a matter before it becomes litigation. If a case has to be filed or defended, MB Legal engages and manages the right litigation counsel and stays in the loop on strategy.
Where technology fits
Where technology fits
The firm runs on MBLegalOS, MB Legal’s custom legal operating system, which does the first pass on routine contract review, drafting, and compliance work. A licensed attorney reviews and verifies every deliverable before it goes out.
Your next step
Tell me what is on your desk.
Tell me a little about your business, the issue you are working through, and what you need next.