Subscription Legal Services — One Flat Fee, No Hourly Billing
CORPIYA COUNSEL replaces the hourly invoice with a single, predictable monthly fee. Subscription-based legal services give your business ongoing access to a licensed attorney — budgeted once, not re-negotiated every time you pick up the phone.
How Subscription Legal Services Work
Traditional law firms bill by the hour: every call, every email, every contract markup adds a new line item to an invoice you can’t predict in advance. A legal subscription flips that model. You pay one flat monthly fee — a corporate legal subscription sized to your business — and get ongoing access to counsel within that plan, with no surprise bills and no clock running in the background.
It’s the same idea as a business lawyer subscription for software or a gym membership: predictable legal fees for businesses that scale with a monthly rate instead of a per-hour rate. That predictability is the entire point — it lets you budget legal spend like any other fixed cost, instead of treating it as an open-ended risk.
Why Businesses Are Moving to Legal Subscriptions
Fixed-fee business legal services built around how growing companies actually budget
Predictable, Flat-Rate Pricing
One monthly fee covers your plan’s scope — no hourly billing, no surprise invoices, no re-approving a budget every time you need counsel.
Unlimited Calls & Emails
Reach out whenever a legal question comes up. Subscription legal services are built for ongoing business legal support, not a one-time matter.
Affordable Ongoing Support
A legal retainer for small business that doesn’t require a six-figure in-house salary — scaled entry points starting well below the cost of a full-time hire.
No Incentive to Run the Clock
Hourly billing rewards length, not speed. A flat-fee subscription aligns your lawyer’s incentives with yours — resolve things efficiently, not slowly.
Scales With Your Business
Move up a tier as your company grows — from a single entity and general contracts to multiple entities, external representation, and board-level support.
Real Attorneys, Not a Legal Tech Tool
Your subscription connects you directly to a licensed, experienced attorney — legal technology supports the work, it doesn’t replace the lawyer.
Subscription vs. Hourly Billing
Legal services without hourly billing, compared directly to the traditional model
Subscription Legal Services
One flat monthly fee. Unlimited calls and emails within your plan. Budget legal spend like any other fixed cost. No invoice surprises, ever.
Traditional Hourly Billing
Every call, email, and markup is billed separately. Costs are unpredictable and can spike sharply during a busy month or a single complex matter.
Full-Time In-House Hire
Fixed salary and benefits regardless of workload — often $200,000+ a year before a single contract is reviewed. Makes sense only at real scale.
What’s Covered
Every Corpiya Counsel subscription includes unlimited general business contracts, internal legal guidance, and compliance monitoring, with higher tiers adding external transactional representation, complex commercial contracts, and corporate governance support. Many clients use their subscription as an ongoing fractional general counsel relationship — if you want the full detail on that side of the offering, including what a fractional GC handles day to day, see our Fractional General Counsel services page.
See which subscription tier fits your business
Plans start at $4,999/month for a single registered company and scale to full GC-office support at the Enterprise tier — monthly outside general counsel sized to how your business actually operates.
See plans and pricingFrequently Asked Questions
More on how the model works, from our complete guide: What Are Subscription-Based Legal Services?
How does subscription legal services pricing work?
You pay one flat fee each month based on your subscription tier, and that fee covers unlimited calls and emails plus the specific services included in your plan — general contracts at every tier, with external representation, complex commercial contracts, and governance support added at higher tiers. There’s no hourly clock and no separate invoice for routine questions.
What’s the difference between a legal subscription and a legal retainer?
A traditional retainer is usually a prepaid balance that still gets billed down hourly, so you can run out mid-month and face an unpredictable top-up. A legal subscription is a flat recurring fee with a defined scope of unlimited access — not a prepaid hourly balance.
Are subscription legal services only for large companies?
No. Our Essentials plan is built specifically as an affordable legal retainer for small business use — one registered company, unlimited general contracts, and compliance monitoring, at a fraction of the cost of a full-time hire. Larger companies with multiple entities move up to Professional or Enterprise.
Can I cancel or change my legal subscription plan?
Yes. Subscription tiers are designed to scale with your business, so you can move to a higher plan as your legal needs grow. Reach out to your account contact to discuss changing or canceling your plan.
What happens if I need more legal support than my plan covers?
Higher tiers add multi-project capacity, external transactional representation, and complex commercial contract support. If a specific matter falls outside your current plan’s scope, we’ll flag it and discuss whether it’s covered by an upgrade or handled as a separate engagement — before any work begins, never as a surprise invoice.
Is a legal subscription cheaper than hourly billing?
For businesses with recurring legal needs, almost always. A handful of contract reviews a month can easily run into five figures at $450–$700/hour rates; a flat-fee subscription replaces that unpredictable spend with one fixed monthly cost, regardless of how often you actually reach out.
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Contact Information
contact@corpiya-counsel.com
104 W 40th St
New York, NY 10018