Outsource Legal Services to a U.S. Drafting Bench
Route drafting, research, document review, and litigation support to a supervised outside provider. Returned to your firm for review and signature.
Legal process outsourcing with Legal Tank runs through a U.S. drafting bench under a matter-specific engagement non-disclosure agreement, conflicts-cleared before any source material moves, on a SOC-2 Type II matter portal. Engagement structures cover one-off project work, standing overflow capacity, and full outsourced legal department arrangements for operating businesses without an in-house team of their own.
NDA · Conflicts · Rule 5.3
Engagement-NDA before source material moves
Workstreams That Route Through Our Drafting Bench
Outsource legal services with Legal Tank are organized by workstream. Each card below is a dedicated service page with its own bench, scope discipline, and engagement structure. Outsource one workstream as a project, outsource a stack of workstreams as overflow, or outsource the full operating envelope as an outsourced legal department.
Contract & Instrument Drafting
NDAs, MSAs, operating agreements, employment and IC packages, IP and licensing instruments, and financing documents. Routed to our contract drafting bench.
Contract drafting servicesLegal Document Drafting (Umbrella)
Motions, affidavits, declarations, wills, trusts, and organizational documents. Routed to our umbrella drafting bench for non-contract instruments.
Legal document drafting servicesLegal Research & Memos
Multi-jurisdiction research, statutory survey memos, case-law analysis, Shepardizing, and cite-checking on tight turnaround.
Legal research servicesDocument Review
First-level due-diligence review, contract review, lease abstract review, and e-discovery first-pass review with privilege flagging.
Document review servicesLitigation Support
Discovery response drafting, deposition and transcript summaries, exhibit indices, motion drafting, and e-filing preparation.
Litigation support servicesBrief Writing
Trial-level briefs, summary judgment briefs, post-trial motion briefs, and bench memos drafted for the engaging attorney's signature.
Legal brief writing servicesAppellate Brief Writing
Federal and state appellate opening briefs, response briefs, reply briefs, petitions for rehearing, and certiorari petitions on FRAP and local circuit rules.
Appellate brief writing servicesParalegal Bench
NALA CP and NFPA RP paralegals on a weekly or per-matter retainer for ongoing case management, intake, calendaring, and discovery workflow.
Paralegal servicesThree Ways to Buy Outsourced Legal Capacity
We structure engagements three ways, and the right one depends on whether you need a single deliverable, a standing backstop on top of in-house capacity, or a multi-month bench that functions as your outsourced legal department.
Project engagement
One matter, one deliverable.
A single workstream with a fixed scope, deliverable, and turnaround. The conflicts check, engagement NDA, and matter portal are stood up for the one matter, and the engagement closes when the deliverable lands. Suits firms or in-house teams testing the bench before any standing commitment.
Single-matter overflow, one-off briefs, one-off contract drafts, single research memos.
Overflow capacity
Standing access, variable hours.
A standing engagement on a weekly or monthly cadence with a soft hours ceiling. The drafting bench is reserved for your matters and absorbs the spikes (deal-flow surge, discovery cycle, brief season) without dragging partner or associate time off priced engagements. The hour count flexes with the workload.
Mid-size litigation and transactional firms, in-house teams with cyclical surge.
Outsourced legal department
Multi-month retainer, dedicated bench.
A named drafter (or named bench) provisioned to your matter portal on a multi-month retainer. Standing access to drafting, research, review, and paralegal workstreams under one engagement NDA. Functions as the back office for a small in-house team that does not carry that capacity in headcount.
Operating businesses without a full in-house team, lean GCs, holding companies.
How Outsourcing Stays Confidential and Conflict-Clean
The recurring objection to legal process outsourcing is confidentiality and conflicts hygiene: who else sees the source material, who owns the work product, and how do adverse-party conflicts get caught before they taint the matter. Four controls answer those questions before the engagement opens.
Engagement NDA before source material moves
Every matter starts with a matter-specific engagement non-disclosure agreement. The NDA scopes confidentiality to the matter, names the engaging attorney's privileged communications inside the NDA's protected envelope, and survives engagement closure for the term the engaging attorney specifies.
Conflicts ledger run at intake
Before any drafter sees source material, the matter is run against the conflicts ledger to flag adverse-party representations and current engagements that would taint the work. If a conflict surfaces, the matter is declined or routed to a walled-off drafter with the engaging attorney's written waiver.
Encrypted matter portal, named-user access
All source material, work product, and drafter notes move through SOC-2 Type II infrastructure. Access is provisioned to the named drafter and the engaging attorney; nobody else inside Legal Tank can open the matter. Access is revoked on engagement close.
U.S. drafters, work-product assignment
Drafters sit onshore on U.S. labor and confidentiality standards. The engagement letter assigns work-product ownership and all derivative rights to the engaging firm or business so the deliverable can ship straight into a closing binder, court filing, or client engagement without a downstream IP question.
Where the supervising attorney sits
Every workstream we route is structured so the engaging attorney sits as the supervising attorney of record under ABA Model Rule 5.3. Our drafter prepares the work product; the engaging attorney reviews, signs, and files. The attorney-client relationship with the underlying client never leaves the engaging firm, and the duty of competence sits with the supervising attorney through every deliverable we hand back.
From Quote Intake to Steady-State Cadence in Six Steps
Every engagement runs through the same six-step flow whether the matter is a one-off project or the front edge of a multi-month outsourced legal department engagement.
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Quote intake
Send the matter description and workstream through our quote form. We return scope, lead drafter, turnaround, and engagement structure in one business day.
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Conflicts clear
We run the matter against the conflicts ledger. If clean, we move to engagement; if not, we decline or set up a walled-off drafter with your written waiver.
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Engagement NDA
We countersign a matter-specific engagement NDA and provision the encrypted matter portal. The NDA terms survive engagement closure for the period you specify.
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Drafter assignment
We assign a named drafter (and peer reviewer) whose lane fits the workstream and controlling jurisdiction. Their access is provisioned to your matter portal only.
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First workstream
First deliverable runs end-to-end inside the portal: drafting, peer review pass, and return to your supervising attorney for the Rule 5.3 review and signature.
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Steady-state cadence
If the engagement converts to overflow or department-style, we set a weekly cadence call with the engaging attorney to confirm scope, conflicts hygiene, and forward workload.
What Buyers Say After Steady-State Cadence Settles In
Five-star feedback from general counsel, managing partners, in-house deputies, and solo practitioners who routed workstreams through our bench for a project, an overflow engagement, or a department-style retainer.
“Our regional health-tech in-house team was running three counsels at a vendor-contract volume that needed five. We engaged Legal Tank on a department-style retainer, named drafter provisioned to our matter portal, and they took on first-pass MSA review, NDA preparation, and BAA drafting. Three months in we held the same throughput on three counsels and gave the senior counsel back her negotiation time. The conflicts ledger flagged one vendor we were already adverse to on a separate matter and walled the drafter off without our having to ask.”
“We are a fourteen-attorney litigation boutique and trial-prep season kept eating associate hours that should have been on case strategy. Their litigation-support bench took deposition summaries, exhibit indices, and discovery response drafting across two large commercial cases. Work product came back on the matter portal each morning, our lead attorneys reviewed and signed on our own letterhead, and we billed the time on our normal hourly rate without disclosure complications because the engagement structure read clean to our state bar guidance.”
“Solo transactional practice, one-counsel shop, and a venture-financing closing landed on top of three M&A intakes. Engaged Legal Tank on a single project for the financing closing set: SAFE-note conversion mechanics, operating-agreement amendments, and the closing-binder index. Senior drafter returned the deliverable on the timeline they quoted, I reviewed and signed on my letterhead, and the round closed without me having to refer the matter out. I keep their portal access provisioned for the next deal.”
“Industrial holding company, lean GC, lots of contracting volume in three operating subsidiaries. Standing overflow engagement with Legal Tank's contract drafting and research benches under one engagement NDA. Their team handles vendor MSA prep, distribution-agreement revisions, statutory research on supply-chain compliance, and they coordinate with our outside corporate counsel on the M&A pipeline. Cadence call every Tuesday morning, named drafter on every workstream, and the supervision documentation has held up to every conflicts inquiry our outside firm has asked about.”
What Legal Tank Owns, What Your Firm Owns
Engagement boundaries are written into the engagement letter at the start of every matter. Our drafters never sign deliverables, never appear in court, never communicate with the underlying client, and never file anything that reaches a court docket or counterparty without your signature. The boundaries below restate the engagement letter in plain language.
Engaging attorney is the supervisor of record
Under ABA Model Rule 5.3, the engaging attorney is the supervisor of record for every workstream we deliver. Supervision touchpoints (intake review, deliverable review, signature) are documented on the matter portal so the supervision protocol is auditable on a bar inquiry.
Senior drafter + peer review on every deliverable
Every deliverable runs a senior drafter on the workstream plus a second-set-of-eyes pass from a peer reviewer before it leaves the portal. The engaging attorney still owns the Rule 5.3 review and signature.
Legal Tank
- Runs the conflicts ledger and engagement NDA before any source material moves.
- Assigns the named drafter and peer reviewer matched to the workstream.
- Drafts, runs the peer review pass, and handles the agreed revision cycles.
- Returns work product through the encrypted matter portal with revocable access.
Engaging Firm or Business
- Performs the Rule 5.3 review on every deliverable returned through the portal.
- Signs the deliverable, the cover letter, and any filings on its own letterhead and bar number.
- Holds the attorney-client relationship with the underlying client.
- Manages courtroom appearances, client counseling, and strategy calls in-house.
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Route Your First Workstream to Our Bench
Send the matter and workstream through our quote form. We return scope, named drafter, and engagement structure in one business day.
Quotes return same business day on intakes received before 5 PM ET