Contract Drafting Services
Hire contract drafters for NDAs, MSAs, distribution and supply agreements, partnership and LLC operating agreements, employment and IP contracts, and financing documents.
Our contract drafting services are handled by senior contract drafters, peer-reviewed inside Legal Tank, and returned to your law firm, business, or you as a self-represented principal for signature under Rule 5.3 supervision. Our contract writing services are custom-drafted to the controlling jurisdiction and counterparty posture.
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The Contract Families Our Drafters Write
Our contract drafting services and contract writing services cover the commercial, transactional, governance, employment, real estate, and intellectual-property contract families. Hire someone to draft a contract on a fixed-fee per-document scope, or hire our contract writers at the workstream level. For non-contract drafting (affidavits, motions, wills, trusts), see our legal document drafting services.
Confidentiality (NDA / NDA-MSA)
One-way and mutual non-disclosure agreements, sale-process NDAs, employee and contractor confidentiality agreements, and confidentiality riders embedded in master services agreements. Definitions of confidential information, permitted use, residuals, and survival drafted to the deal pattern.
Commercial Contracts
Master services agreements, statements of work, professional services agreements, vendor contracts, distribution agreements, reseller agreements, and supply contracts. Operative covenants, payment, change-order, acceptance, warranty, indemnity, and limitation of liability tuned to the engagement.
Partnership & LLC Documents
LLC operating agreements (single and multi-member), partnership agreements, joint venture agreements, member-control agreements, voting and buy-sell provisions, and capital-call mechanics. Formed for the controlling state's LLC act or partnership statute.
Employment & Independent Contractor
Executive employment agreements, at-will offer letters with restrictive covenants, independent contractor agreements, IC scopes of work, severance and separation agreements, and equity grant documents. State-by-state restrictive-covenant guardrails respected.
Real Estate & Lease Instruments
Commercial leases, residential leases, sublease agreements, lease amendments and assignments, real estate purchase agreements, easements, and option-to-purchase contracts. Drafted to the controlling state's real-property and landlord-tenant law.
Transactional & Financing Documents
Asset purchase agreements, stock purchase agreements, share-purchase agreements, term sheets, promissory notes, security agreements, intercreditor agreements, and SAFE notes. Conditions to closing, MAC clauses, and indemnity baskets calibrated to the deal size.
Intellectual Property & Licensing
Trademark, copyright, and patent assignment agreements, IP license agreements (exclusive and non-exclusive), software end-user license agreements, SaaS subscription agreements, and technology transfer agreements. Field-of-use, territory, and termination tail drafted to the IP economics.
Shareholder & Corporate Contracts
Shareholder agreements, voting trust agreements, buy-sell agreements, founder restricted-stock purchase agreements, and amendments to operative shareholder documents. Drafted to the controlling state corporation or LLC act. For organizational documents (articles of incorporation, bylaws, board resolutions), see our legal document drafting services.
Drafter vs AI vs Template: What Each Path Actually Delivers
Buyers ask whether AI contract drafting, free AI contract drafting, or ChatGPT contract drafting can replace professional contract drafting. The answer is no, not for any deliverable that has to survive a sophisticated counterparty, a closing-binder review, or a litigation post-mortem.
| Dimension | Credentialed Drafter | Generative AI | Template Library |
|---|---|---|---|
| Conflict check | Run before any document is opened. Required by ABA Model Rule 1.7. | Not performed. Generative AI has no conflicts ledger. | Not performed. Templates are deal-pattern-agnostic. |
| Jurisdiction calibration | Drafted to the controlling state's case law and statute (UCC, restrictive-covenant rules, lease and landlord-tenant law). | Generic. Surface-level state references; case-law context not verified. | One-size-fits-fifty. State variation absorbed in fill-in fields. |
| Statute-of-frauds defects | UCC § 2-201 writing and signature requirements verified at draft stage. | Misses common defects (missing party identification, quantity term, signature line). | Compliant by structure if the user fills the right fields; silent if not. |
| Indemnity-LoL interaction | Indemnity carve-outs, baskets, caps, and survivals checked against the limitation-of-liability clause. | Frequently produces indemnity language that overrides the LoL by mistake. | Generic balance; not tuned to deal-specific risk allocation. |
| Boilerplate consistency | Defined terms, notices, governing law, dispute resolution, and assignment provisions reconciled across the instrument. | Defined-term drift between sections is common. | Internally consistent within the template; collapses on customization. |
| Senior writer + peer review | Senior drafter or writer on every engagement, plus a peer review pass before the deliverable returns. Sign-off sits with the engaging firm under ABA Model Rule 5.3. | None. The user is the only reviewer. | None. The user is the only reviewer. |
Where we put AI inside our drafting workflow
We use AI upstream for clause libraries, precedent surfacing, and structure suggestions. A credentialed drafter then finalizes the instrument under attorney supervision before it leaves our portal. The competence and confidentiality duties (ABA Formal Opinion 512) sit with the supervising attorney, so we keep the AI step on our side of the line and the signature step on yours.
What Our Contract Writers Build Into Every Instrument
Every engagement we take produces a document calibrated to four things: the parties as you describe them at intake, the operative covenants you need enforced, the controlling jurisdiction we confirm before drafting, and the counterparty posture you flag (sophisticated, regulated, consumer-side, distressed). Our drafter writes those four variables into the instrument first, then layers the representations, conditions, defaults, remedies, and boilerplate around them.
Our contract writers screen for the recurring defects that get instruments re-opened during closing review or litigation discovery: mismatched defined terms, indemnity language that overwrites the limitation of liability, ambiguous conditions precedent, missing assignment language, and statute-of-frauds gaps for goods sales ( UCC § 2-201 triggers at $500). A senior reviewer inside Legal Tank clears every draft against that checklist before the document leaves our portal back to your firm or your business.
The deliverable is a clean, deal-specific instrument with redlines from the precedent, a short writer's note calling out anything we flagged for your review, and the engagement letter and conflicts check on file. Send your deal terms and we route the engagement to a contract writer who has handled the same pattern, with a peer reviewer assigned the same day. Your firm or your business signs.
When to Hire a Contract Writer Instead of a Template or AI
We deliver custom contract drafting when the deal pattern, the counterparty risk, the jurisdiction, or the volume make a template or an AI pass unsafe. Our buyer pool splits across two lanes: law firms and in-house counsel ordering contract drafting for lawyers and business contract drafting overflow, plus self-represented founders, freelancers, and individual principals who want a credentialed writer on the file without engaging full outside counsel.
Bespoke commercial deals
Master services agreements, distribution agreements, supply contracts, and licensing deals where the commercial terms do not map onto a standard template. Our contract writer pulls from precedent, calibrates the indemnity-LoL interaction to the deal size, and tunes the boilerplate to the controlling jurisdiction.
Overflow capacity for transactional firms
Small and mid-size transactional firms hit writing bench-capacity walls during deal-flow spikes. A weekly retainer with our drafting bench absorbs operating- agreement amendments, employment contracts, IC packages, and SAFE-note close-out work without dragging partner time off priced engagements.
Self-represented founders and individuals
Pre-Series-A founders, freelancers, independent consultants, and individual principals who do not have in-house counsel and do not want to pay full outside-counsel rates for routine vendor MSAs, customer contracts, contractor agreements, NDAs, or one-off deal-specific instruments. We write the deliverable, our senior reviewer clears it, and you sign as the self-represented party.
Post-acquisition contract refresh
Acquisitions inherit a stack of legacy supply, distribution, employment, and license agreements that often do not survive the change of control or do not reflect the buyer's risk allocation. We rebuild the contract suite to the buyer's standard, in the buyer's voice, on the buyer's calendar.
How a Contract Drafting Engagement Runs, Quote to Signature
We run every drafting engagement on a fixed five-step flow from quote intake to deliverable.
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Quote intake
Send your deal terms through our quote form. We return scope and timeline within one business day.
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Writer match
We pair your engagement with a senior contract writer and peer reviewer whose lane fits the document type and controlling jurisdiction.
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Secure handoff
We move your engagement letter and source materials through our encrypted client portal. Access is provisioned to the named writer only.
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Write and peer review
Our contract writer prepares the first draft and we run a peer review pass before the deliverable returns. Rule 5.3 supervision and signature sit with your firm or business.
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Returned for your signature
We return the final deliverable to your firm or business for review and signature. You are the signer of record.
What Buyers Say After Our Drafters Return the Contract
Five-star feedback from in-house counsel, transactional firms, founders, and operating businesses that hired our contract drafters and contract writers for a single instrument or an ongoing workstream.
“Our SaaS company was scaling enterprise sales and our outside counsel quotes for fresh master services agreements were running into five figures per deal. Their contract drafter rebuilt our MSA on a single fixed-fee engagement, then handled three negotiated redline rounds with three different Fortune 500 procurement teams. The senior drafter and peer-review pass cleared each redline cycle before it went back; our GC signed every executed version. Cut our contracting cycle time roughly in half.”
“We are a four-attorney transactional firm and intake spikes around year-end push our drafting bench past capacity. Their drafter took over employment agreement drafts, IC scopes, and operating-agreement amendments on a weekly retainer for the December sprint. Work product came back clean, the senior-drafter and peer-review pass was visible on every deliverable, our partner signed under our own letterhead, and we billed the time through to clients on our normal Clio cycle.”
“Bought a regional distribution business and inherited a stack of legacy supply, distribution, and reseller agreements that did not survive the change of control. Their team rebuilt the contract suite from scratch, six master agreements, fourteen state-tailored riders, and a license addendum for the IP we acquired. UCC compliance was clean, indemnity-LoL interaction held up, and the deliverables routed to our outside corporate counsel for the closing binder without a single rewrite.”
“Solo founder, first venture-backed financing round, and our angel-stage docs were SAFE notes off a generic template that did not survive priced-round diligence. Their drafter built clean priced-round friendly amendments to the SAFEs, drafted the operating agreement amendment, and coordinated with our lead investor's counsel on the closing schedule. Senior drafter and peer review pass on every redline cycle, deliverables returned on the timeline they quoted, our outside counsel signed the closing set, and the round closed on schedule.”
Our Writers Prepare It; You or Your Firm Signs It
Our contract drafters prepare the deliverable as drafting work product, then we run a peer review pass before the instrument returns through the encrypted portal. The instrument is signed by the engaging firm on behalf of its client, by the contracting business party directly, or by the self-represented principal who hired us. We are not the contracting party, do not sign the underlying contract, and do not file or record any executed version.
Rule 5.3 supervision sits with your firm
When a law firm engages us, your engaging attorney is the supervisor of record under ABA Model Rule 5.3. We return our drafter's work product to you for review, and you sign the cover letter, engagement letter, and underlying instrument under your own letterhead and bar number.
Senior writer + peer review pass
We run every deliverable through a senior contract writer and a peer review pass before it leaves our portal. Your firm or business handles sign-off and execution.
Legal Tank
- Matches the senior writer and peer reviewer to your document and jurisdiction.
- Runs the conflicts intake before the writer sees any source material.
- Writes the draft, runs the peer review pass, and handles the agreed revision cycles.
- Returns the deliverable through the encrypted portal.
You
- Review the deliverable against the deal terms.
- Sign the underlying contract as the contracting party (or as the engaging firm on behalf of its client).
- Hold the attorney-client relationship with the underlying client where you are a law firm.
- Manage execution, counterparty signature, and post-execution storage on your end.
For limited-scope direct-to-consumer drafting, see unbundled legal services. For paralegal-bench support inside a law firm, see paralegal services.
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