Referral Partners

    Give clients a legal department without the overhead.

    Flat-fee retained counsel. No hourly surprises. Your clients get embedded legal infrastructure that protects the bottom line and positions them for scalable growth.

    Am Law 100 alumni · We reply to new inquiries within four hours on business days · No obligation

    What your clients get

    Your clients trade unpredictable hourly bills for one flat monthly fee. They get outside general counsel inside their operations — reviewing contracts, watching risk, and building the legal record that holds up at exit.

    Predictable legal costs

    One flat fee. No billable-hour anxiety. Legal spend becomes a fixed operating cost, not a variable liability.

    Contract intelligence

    Contract reviews that come back as a decision, not a memo. Every agreement is vetted before your client signs it.

    Growth-ready infrastructure

    Legal frameworks built for scale — entity structuring, IP protection, and operational compliance that increase enterprise value.

    Direct counsel access

    Your clients work directly with founding partners. Am Law 100 alumni with nearly two decades of combined Fortune 100 experience.

    Who we partner with

    We work alongside professionals who advise growing businesses on finance, operations, and strategy. If legal questions surface in your client work, a partnership with ELS gives you a direct line to retained counsel.

    • —Fractional CFOs
    • —Fractional COOs
    • —Accountants and bookkeepers
    • —HR consultants
    • —Business coaches and strategic consultants

    How it works

    Connect

    Introduce a client who could benefit from retained legal counsel. A warm email or a call — whatever fits the relationship.

    We Meet

    Our founding partners sit down with your client directly. We assess their operational landscape and outline a retained engagement.

    They’re Covered

    Your client gets embedded outside general counsel on a flat monthly fee. Legal overhead drops. Growth infrastructure goes up.

    Before you introduce a client

    What does it cost my client?
    Membership starts at $995 per month, flat. Your client knows the number before they sign, and it does not move when the work does.
    How much of my time does this take?
    A warm introduction. We take it from there and keep you posted on whether the engagement moves forward.
    What if the client is not a fit?
    We tell them so on the first call and point them somewhere useful. Your relationship with the client is the thing we protect first.

    Ready when you are.

    Twenty free minutes with founding counsel about how we work together — and what your clients get.

    Book a free 20-min call