For businesses and individuals
Have the contract reviewed and redlined before you sign it
Contract review services examine an agreement you have been asked to sign, before you sign it: a reviewer reads every clause against your side of the deal, marks proposed changes as a tracked-changes redline, and explains each risk in plain English. The deliverable is a markup you can send back to the other party plus a memo telling you what to negotiate, what to accept, and what is missing entirely.
Upload the contract, get one flat fee quoted from the document itself, and receive an attorney-reviewed redline, risk memo, and negotiation talking points back through the secure portal. Not sure the document needs a full review yet? Start with the free AI contract risk scanner and see what it flags first.
Contract redlining services: what comes back to you
A review that ends with "looks mostly fine" is not a review. Every engagement returns four concrete pieces, in editable form, built to be used in the negotiation the same day.
Clause-by-clause redline in tracked changes
Every risky, one-sided, or ambiguous clause is rewritten directly in the document as tracked changes, so you can accept, reject, or forward the markup to the other side without retyping anything.
Plain-English risk memo
A memo keyed to the redline explains what each flagged clause does to you in practice: who pays when something breaks, who owns what, and how hard it is to get out. No statute-speak without a translation.
Missing-protection flags
The dangerous part of a contract is often what is not there. We flag absent or hollow indemnification, limitation of liability, termination rights, IP assignment, and auto-renewal traps before you sign into them.
Negotiation talking points
Ranked asks for the counterparty: the changes worth walking over, the ones worth trading, and the fallback language to propose if they push back. You go into the negotiation with a script, not a hunch.
Business contract review, and the personal contracts that work the same way
Most of what crosses the review desk is commercial paper: the other side's template, drafted for the other side's benefit. The same is true of the contracts individuals sign, a lease or an employment offer is a business contract where you are the smaller party. We review both, against the governing-law state named in the document.
NDAs and confidentiality agreements
Definition scope, residuals language, term and survival, and non-solicit riders hiding inside mutual NDAs.
Master services agreements
Indemnity against the limitation of liability, acceptance and warranty mechanics, SLA teeth, and payment terms.
Service agreements
Scope creep language, change-order pricing, IP ownership of work product, and termination for convenience.
Vendor contracts
Auto-renewal windows, price-escalation clauses, exclusivity, and data-handling obligations you inherit.
Commercial and residential leases
CAM and pass-through charges, personal guarantees, repair allocation, and early-exit and assignment rights.
Employment offers and contractor agreements
Non-competes and non-solicits, IP assignment reach into side projects, bonus and equity conditions, severance triggers.
If the review shows the agreement is beyond saving, the fix is a rebuild, not a redline: our senior contract drafters can rebuild the agreement from your deal terms. For non-contract documents, such as affidavits, settlement papers, and court filings, see our review desk for legal documents that are not contracts.
Flat fee contract review instead of an hourly meter
Hourly review has a built-in conflict: the longer the reviewer reads, the more you pay, and you cannot know the total until it is over. We quote every review as one flat fee, calculated from the contract itself, its length, its complexity, and how one-sided the draft is, before any work starts. A two-page NDA and a forty-page MSA are different quotes, but each is a single known number, and the quote includes the redline, the memo, the talking points, and follow-up questions. There is no subscription, no retainer, and no minimum volume: one contract is a normal engagement.
Firms with recurring volume, such as a legal team that wants every inbound vendor agreement screened, can put the same review bench behind their own letterhead through the white-label drafting and review program for law firms.
Do you need a contract review lawyer, or a reviewed contract?
They are different purchases. Engaging a contract review lawyer at a firm buys representation: the attorney is your counsel, can negotiate for you, and can appear for you if the deal turns into a dispute. What most people signing an NDA, MSA, or lease actually need is the work product, a licensed attorney's reading of the document, delivered as a redline and memo they can act on themselves. That is what this service sells: every review here is performed by a licensed attorney, but Legal Tank is not a law firm, does not represent you, and does not appear in negotiations or court.
When the situation is adversarial, the contract is already breached, you are being threatened with suit, or the counterparty has counsel actively negotiating against you, retain counsel. Our guide to when a contracts law attorney is the right hire covers where that line sits.
Legal Tank is not a law firm and does not provide legal representation. Contract reviews are prepared as document work product by licensed attorneys; no attorney-client relationship is formed, and we do not negotiate with counterparties, file, or appear on your behalf. Your contract uploads to an encrypted portal rather than an email thread, only the reviewing attorney sees it, and we delete the file once you confirm you have the redline.
How the review runs, upload to redline
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Upload and flat quote
Send the contract through the quote form. You get one flat fee and a turnaround, quoted from the document itself, before any work starts.
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Attorney review
A licensed attorney reads the full agreement against your side of the deal and the governing-law state named in it.
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Redline and memo delivered
The tracked-changes redline, risk memo, and negotiation talking points come back through the secure portal, editable.
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Follow-up questions answered
If the counterparty responds or a flagged clause needs a second look, you can ask. The review is done when you understand the document, not when the file is sent.
Get the contract in front of an attorney today
Quotes return within one business day with the flat fee and turnaround. Signature deadlines and rush reviews are handled at quote.
Upload your contract for reviewContract review services FAQ
How much do lawyers charge to review contracts?
Law firms typically bill contract review by the hour, with rates commonly running from around $200 to $500 per hour and well past that in major markets, so the total is open-ended until the work is done. Boutique flat-fee shops advertise per-contract review from roughly $250 upward depending on length. We quote a single flat fee from your contract itself before any work starts, so the fee you accept is the fee you are billed, regardless of how gnarly the indemnification clause turns out to be.
What does a contract reviewer do?
A contract reviewer reads every clause of the agreement against your side of the deal, marks one-sided or dangerous language as tracked changes, and flags the protections the draft is missing, such as an indemnification cap, a limitation of liability, or a clean termination right. The output is a redline you can send back to the other party plus a memo explaining, in plain English, what each proposed change protects you from.
Is $900 an hour a lot for a lawyer?
Yes. Nine hundred dollars an hour is large-firm partner territory, priced for bet-the-company disputes and complex deals, not for reading a vendor MSA or an employment offer. Reviewing an existing contract is a bounded task with a knowable scope, which is exactly why it suits a flat fee quoted up front rather than an hourly meter.
What not to tell the attorney?
For contract review the honest answer is: nothing, hold nothing back. Side letters, email promises, earlier drafts, and what the other party said verbally all change how clauses like entire-agreement and amendment provisions cut against you, so a reviewer who does not see them will miss real risk. Everything you upload moves through the secure portal and is used only to review your document.
Do I need a contract review attorney near me?
Usually not. A contract is reviewed against the governing-law state named inside the document, not against the reviewer's zip code, and the entire engagement runs through a secure portal: upload, review, redline back. Local counsel matters when the contract is already in dispute and someone needs to appear in court, which is representation, not review.