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Routine NDAs stacking up? Compliance piling on? Bandwidth stretched thin?Lawtrades instantly matches you with flexible, specialized legal talent—so you can breathe easier, deliver faster, and avoid costly overhead.

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Other ALSP’s and law firms lock you into rigid retainers, long ramp-ups, or generic talent pools that slow you down and cost a fortune. Not great for fast-moving legal teams at high-growth companies.
That’s why we built Lawtrades. It’s flexible, fast, and exactly what you need—nothing you don’t.
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Post a need—such as reviewing a new MSA, building an employment agreement, or cleaning up your contract backlog. Provide a scope and timeline, and we’ll match you quickly.

Match with top talent
Our network is handpicked—from senior counsel for niche topics to flexible legal ops experts. Interview, pick your fit, or let us recommend.

Work on your terms
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Legal team reinvention
How Companies use Lawtrades to access world-class talent
Lawtrades at a glance.
From startup formation to Fortune 500 compliance, we cover the entire legal spectrum.
Most Requested Use Cases
Contracts & Agreements
Contract Management
Corporate Governance
Employment & HR
M&A Transactions
Outside General Counsel
Privacy & Data Security
Regulatory Compliance
Our Talent Network
Attorney
Compliance Experts
Contract & eDiscovery Admin
Legal Admin & Projects
Legal Ops
Paralegals
Built-In Platform Features
Collaboration Tools
Dedicated Support
Instant Expert Matching
Rigorous Vetting
Transparent Billing
Engagement & Billing Models
Ad-Hoc Urgent Support
Embedded Staffing
Fractional GC & On-Demand
Project-Based
Subscriptions & Retainers
Built-In Platform Features
Flexible Scalability
Cost-Efficient Solutions
Rapid Response
Top-Quality Talent
Unified Workflow
Quality assurance, redefined.
Only the top 2% of applicants make it into the Lawtrades Network. Here’s how we ensure they’re the best of the best.
1
Flexible pricing
Each candidate undergoes rigorous multi-stage screening: in-depth experience evaluation, skills tests, and reference checks.
2
Real-world simulations
Candidates are challenged with realistic projects—contract reviews, compliance audits, and live negotiation scenarios—to prove they deliver exceptional results under pressure.
3
Live assessments
Final-stage attorneys are screened live by senior legal professionals to verify their practical skills, expertise, and communication ability in real-time.
4
Continuous performance tracking
We don’t stop at onboarding. Attorneys and legal specialists are continuously evaluated through client ratings, feedback scores, and repeat-hire rates.
5
Ratings & reviews you can trust
Every Lawtrades attorney has detailed reviews, recommendation scores, and badges reflecting verified client experiences—so you’ll know exactly who you’re hiring.
Why it matters:
Unlike traditional ALSPs, we don’t just claim excellence—we prove it, transparently, with ratings, reviews, and continuous quality checks. At Lawtrades, accountability isn’t an afterthought; it’s built right into our DNA.
Simple pricing, no surprises.
No hidden fees, just straightforward pricing.
Attorney
Starting at $150/hr
Privacy, Litigation, Commercial Contracts, and more
Legal Support
Starting at $100/hr
Paralegals, Legal Ops, Compliance, Contract Admin, and more
Contracts & Agreements
Robust spend analytics & ROI tracking
Seamless invoicing & net-30 billing management
Tailored onboarding (NDAs, custom workflows)
Dedicated account manager & priority support
Collaborative hiring & role-based permissions
Instantly vetted & screened talent profiles
Proven expertise badges & recommendation scores
Easily schedule meetings & track engagements
Traditional ALSPs
Manual matching, slower to scale
Limited transparency & budgeting
Manual or inflexible billing processes
Generic onboarding
Limited or no dedicated account support
Single-user limitations, minimal collaboration
Minimal or no visible vetting processes
No visible talent reviews or expertise validation
Manual coordination
Lawtrades at a glance.
Do you have examples or case studies?
Yes—check out our customer stories to see exactly how SaaS, Fintech, Healthtech, and other high-growth companies accelerated with Lawtrades.
Are your lawyers from Big Law or in-house teams?
Both! Many come from big-name law firms and have substantial in-house experience at fast-growing tech companies. You’ll always see who you’re working with upfront.
How soon can we get started?
Usually within 1–2 days. Just post a job or tell us your needs—we’ll introduce you to qualified talent almost immediately.
Can Lawtrades help build legal processes or templates?
Absolutely. Our legal ops specialists create streamlined workflows, build custom playbooks, and simplify your contract management to save you tons of time.
Do attorneys and paralegals really become part of our team?
Yes! They’ll join your Slack channels, email threads, daily standups—whatever makes them feel like an extension of your in-house team.
Can attorneys complete our vendor security questionnaires?
Sure thing. Our attorneys regularly handle client-specific compliance and security forms—just send them our way.
How do you handle sensitive information?
We take security seriously: strict NDAs, encrypted file transfers, and fully vetted attorneys bound by professional confidentiality.
How do we keep our budget under control?
Easy. Our dashboard lets you see real-time spending, and your dedicated account manager can alert you if you’re nearing your budget threshold.
What if we don’t use all the hours we buy upfront?
You’re in control: roll leftover hours forward, apply them to another project, or get a straightforward refund.
Are there hidden fees we should know about?
No surprises here. Just clear, upfront hourly rates and transparent invoicing. No “management” fees or tricky add-ons—ever.
Will the talent use our Slack, Zoom, email, etc.?
Yes. They’ll fully embed with your team’s workflow, whether that’s Slack, Zoom calls, shared docs, or whatever tool you love most.
We have urgent work—can someone jump in quickly?
Definitely. Most talent on our platform responds within hours. Let us know if something’s super urgent—we’ll fast-track the match.
Can we convert a Lawtrades contractor into a permanent hire later on?
Yes, seamlessly. Lots of clients start out hiring talent on a contract basis, then transition them into full-time roles once they know it’s a great fit.
What if I need specialized expertise (privacy, IP, employment)?
We’ve got you covered. Just tell us your need, and we’ll instantly connect you with an expert attorney specialized in exactly what you require.
Can I hire someone for just 5–10 hours a month?
Absolutely! Scale your legal support up or down exactly when you need it—busy product launches, fundraising sprints, or quiet months. Zero penalties, total flexibility.

How SecurityScorecard uses flexible talent for assistance with contracts
Originally published on Legal Dive in January 2023.
The cybersecurity ratings platform SecurityScorecard has seen the demand for its work on commercial contracts rise at the end of each quarter and the end of each year, the company says.
Additionally, the company’s strong financial growth, fueled by expansion into new markets, has increased the contracting workload for its small in-house legal team, said Owen Denby, SecurityScorecard’s general counsel.
As a result, Denby told Legal Dive, the company has turned to Lawtrades to find attorneys who can step in and provide contracting assistance during those busy periods. Lawtrades is an on-demand legal talent platform for in-house law departments.
Denby said he has been very pleased with the results to date, including the speed with which SecurityScorecard can identify experienced lawyers via Lawtrades who are available to effectively work with the company’s internal legal team.
“It takes a lot of pressure off of us to be able to find talent quickly, onboard them quickly and really just let them run,” Denby said.
Talent pool
The caliber of attorneys who use the Lawtrades platform to find flexible gigs supporting in-house legal departments has also been impressive, Denby said.
His company has used lawyers who previously served as general counsel of earlier-stage tech companies, for example.
“We have confidence that they can step in and be true business partners, which makes all the difference in terms of how we meet our business demands and serve our customers,” Denby said.
Global resource
As SecurityScorecard has expanded into Europe, the company has appreciated that it can find attorneys via Lawtrades who are knowledgeable about the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation known as GDPR.
Denby said his in-house team, which has five members including himself, may decide to use a Lawtrades professional based in Europe, the Middle East or Africa who can increase coverage for the company’s international sales team.
In its 2022 year-end roundup, Lawtrades highlighted that its global reach includes professionals working in the UK, Germany, Ireland, Netherlands, Spain, South Korea and Brazil.

Use cases beyond startups
Lawtrades’ year-end report said the bulk of “the engagements and work performed on the platform is in the commercial contracts realm (nearly 44%).”
However, it highlighted that in-house legal teams are also using the talent provider to fill roles requiring expertise in commercial compliance, corporate and securities work, workflow management and privacy, among other areas.
Along those lines, Denby said SecurityScorecard has used Lawtrades personnel for assistance with compliance projects, such as rolling out the company’s anti-corruption and anti-fraud policies.
Professionals from Lawtrades have also previously helped the cybersecurity company with employee benefits and other employment-related work, as well as data privacy initiatives.
“We’ve been able to fill in a lot of gaps and staff a lot of different areas just given the flexible talent pool and the ability to get people up to speed really quickly,” Denby said.
Additionally, he said he often recommends Lawtrades to other GCs at growing companies who start facing an expanding array of legal needs without the internal headcount to quickly tackle them all.

For Rahul Magan, creating processes is essential to running a powerful legal department
Rahul Magan has always known what it means to wear multiple hats. Growing up in a family of independent hoteliers, he saw first-hand how different the same job could be from day to day. After graduating UPenn Law, he joined Goodwin in Silicon Valley where advising tech firms and start-ups became his passion. But being outside counsel never fully satisfied Magan, so after 5 years of working with and observing start-ups, he joined one. Magan worked at ShipBob, where he set up the Legal department and, most recently, came on as General Counsel for the venture capital and private equity firm Trousdale Ventures.
At Trousdale, Magan is once again building a legal team, but the firm's diverse portfolio of investments (space tech, lifestyle brands, real estate, and more) also means he's wearing multiple hats and doing vastly different jobs day to day. One of those jobs is sole general counsel for Meyers Manx, which is bringing back the original Dune Buggy, this time as an EV. "It's really hard to start a car company from scratch," admits Magan. "There's a graveyard out there of American companies that have tried to start small, low-volume vehicle manufacturers."
Such challenges don't scare Magan, but they require a team. To help with the caseload at Meyers Manx, and at previous companies, Magan integrates Lawtrades into the firm's workflow. We sat down with Magan to understand how he leverages Lawtrades for his specific needs, and how it compliments the nimble style of a start-up.
Key Takeaways:
- Lawtrades provides legal professionals at a fixed, predictable cost, and fully-integrates them into team workflows
- The staff at Lawtrades is personally responsive to a client's specific needs, and sources qualified legal professionals
- Legal professionals on the platform are business-oriented and entrepreneurial
Parts of this interview have been edited for clarity.
What are some of the biggest problems you are trying to solve for your clients?
The regulatory landscape when developing a car is incredibly complex. There's very few people out there that know how to decipher the regulations, because when you're manufacturing a car, not only do you have to be able to address consumer safety and apply for VIN numbers to register your vehicles, you also need the dealer licenses so that you can start selling, and if you want to be a D2C—Tesla has an entire army of attorneys that does the retail side of it. However, Meyers Manx is more of a niche company where we're probably going to produce only about 5,000 vehicles to start. We still need to get through as much of the regulation as we can, with very limited resources. There's not a lot of expertise around the table, in fact, there aren’t many folks around the world that have practiced this type of law or implemented this process before.
Then, besides the regulatory side of it, another part of my legal job at Meyers Manx is the commercial side. We're constantly prototyping—where we're collaborating with other manufacturers and suppliers. We're figuring out where to manufacture these cars: do we have our own facility and get that financing, get equipment in there, or do we contract manufacturing with third-parties?
As always, there's the corporate fundraising side, the governance side, and the employee side. We are manufacturing vehicles, so there's a high level of liability that we have to watch out for. We don't want people dying in our vehicles. Also, we have shop workers, we have professional staff, we have people traveling constantly—we have new-hire templates, hourly pay, make sure everyone's taking their meal breaks, like at a granular level you have to be able to handle these things too.
What casework do you use Lawtrades most for?
At ShipBob, my first employment counsel transitioned out and I had nobody while at the helm of a company with hundreds of employees spread across 28 states and 7 countries. We had gone through a budget tightening exercise, and I wondered if we can live without a new hire by using outside counsel. Experienced outside counsel costs $700 an hour? And I'm like, "well, they don't play within our systems. They can't talk to HR every day and be plugged into the Slack channels. How about I find someone on a temporary basis?" Hiring a Lawtrader is great because they're hourly, we don't have to pay insurance and all of that, and they're a fully-loaded cost—we know what their rate is and we can predict it. That, and we get a subject matter expert who does this day-to-day and they can talk to even outside counsel and still significantly reduce our overall cost and spend. So if the company wasn't ready to budget for a full time replacement hire, I could at least get a subject matter expert who can help shoulder 20 hours a week to start.

How did you first hear of Lawtrades?
I actually met Ashish Walia [Lawtrades co-founder and Head of Business Development], through TechGC.
Using Lawtrades was primarily strategic. I was a new GC at the time. I met Ashish over the course of a few conferences and we talked, and when the time came to find staffing in a pinch, Lawtrades set it all up. Within two days, Lawtrades sourced a few candidates, scheduled interviews, and on-boarded a capable attorney. And even after I hired a full time attorney, we continued that relationship with Lawtrades because there were simply too many projects in process.
Have you ever used another ALSP or was Lawtrades your first one? What made Lawtrades stand-out for you?
I looked at some of the "old-school" ALSPs, and they effectively operate as an outsourced Big Law firm. For me, that seemed like overkill—the people were hyper specialized, so it'd be good for a really specific project, but I'd be paying higher rates. With Lawtrades, I like the platform because it's a little bit more entrepreneurial. The attorneys are fighting for the role, and I find that the Lawtrades folks seem a bit more business-oriented. Whereas, I think some of the other ALSPs, the lawyers were outside counsel before and never spent time in-house, so you still get that outside counsel flavor versus at Lawtrades you can plug the hire in.
On the backend, it's really easy for me to reach out to Lauren or Ashish, and I can send them a sentence saying I just need someone to help me with this and they sort a bunch of resumes and make the interview experience really easy to handle so I'm not scheduling a bunch of things that I have to worry about. Plus, usually every time I hire someone, they've started the next day. It's really seamless.
Would you recommend Lawtrades to other firms or Legal Operations departments?
Absolutely. Yes. To all of my general counsel friends, I always say that if you need some ad hoc help and you don't want to pay $600 an hour for a junior associate that will get something back to you that's 50% complete, try Lawtrades. It's a good way to try something new. There's very low risk to bringing someone on from Lawtrades, and if it works, the ceiling is very high.
Whether a growing start-up, established legal firm, or multinational corporation, Lawtrades provides world-class legal talent via an easy-to-use platform that makes hiring and managing a breeze.
Book a demo and discover how Lawtrades can benefit your business.

How Recharge built up their legal team with Lawtrades
Ever since Brandon Une started using Lawtrades at Recharge, his work life has been simplified. As director of legal for Recharge, he has used Lawtrades for important legal work while maintaining a level of flexibility ideal for a versatile startup. “Invaluable,” he said, “is the word we’re using.”
Lawtrades provided immediate help
Recharge is the leading subscription payments solution, helping ecommerce merchants of all sizes launch and scale subscription offerings. In May 2021, Recharge closed their Series B round of funding, raising $277 million in growth capital from Summit Partners, ICONIQ Growth, and Bain Capital Ventures to bring the company to a $2.1 billion valuation.
Brandon, a Harvard Law graduate who previously worked at law firms and other in-house roles and is a former CPA, started at the company in March as the first legal hire. (The legal team has since expanded.)
“Lawtrades really helped me to plug in, especially when I was by myself,” he said. “When I needed commercial contract review, both inbound and outbound, they were there for me in whatever capacity that I needed in that area.”

Lawtrades stood out over other services for its flexibility
Brandon has mostly used Lawtrades professionals to work on commercial contracts and contract management, but Recharge’s legal team’s workflow varies from week to week. So Brandon wanted a service that fit the varied pace.
“One of the things I really appreciate about Lawtrades is its flexible model,” he said. “I had interviewed a couple of other providers...but it's a very different business model where you have to commit to a certain number of hours. For me, things just ebb and flow. And I didn't want to run the clock out or just run the meter on things I wasn’t using.”
Why Brandon recommends Lawtrades
In addition to flexibility, Lawtrades has allowed Brandon and the Recharge legal team to focus on the big picture instead of running through every first draft of a commercial contract.
“If you're a legal team of one, or even two, and you still need to plug holes in places,” Brandon said, “Lawtrades is a really fantastic solution.”
Often, in-house teams may not need the apparatus of a law firm to tackle a specific business need as the best legal talent no longer work exclusively for law firms. At Lawtrades, experienced commercial lawyers join our platform to work on engagements that match to their experience and interests. If you’re ready to augment your legal department with a tech-enabled workforce and smart workspace, create a position to get started.
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