Benefits
- Dedicated legal counsel as your direct point of contact
- Fixed monthly fee - transparent and predictable
- Access to Code Law's full expertise and network
- An external legal department, fully integrated into your organization
- Flexible terms - ideal also for temporary coverage, such as sabbaticals or parental leave
What's included in the subscription
Our subscription gives you access to a dedicated legal counsel and covers all legal matters arising from your daily business operations.
For SMEs
- Contracts: Drafting and negotiating commercial agreements with customers, suppliers, and partners (e.g., GTCs, terms of use, service agreements, distribution contracts), support with contract management
- Strategy: Advice on strategic business decisions
- Corporate Secretary: Preparing and supporting general meetings and board meetings, handling commercial register changes (e.g., appointing new board members or managing directors), assisting with share transfers, maintaining the share register
- Data protection: Advising on data privacy matters, drafting or updating privacy policies and DPAs, creating internal guidelines and conducting training sessions
- HR: Support with employment law issues, drafting regulations, guidelines, employment contracts, and terminations
- IP: Drafting IP agreements (e.g., software license agreements), trademark registrations in Switzerland and internationally, developing IP strategies
- Regulatory representation: Liaising with authorities (excluding court representation in legal disputes)
For startups & scale-ups
- All services for SMEs: Startups and scale-ups benefit from the same services as SMEs, with additional support for:
- Employee participation: Drafting and managing employee participation plans (ESOP, PSOP, EPP)
- SHA: Adjustments to shareholders’ agreements (SHA)
- Investoren: Addressing investor-related legal matters
What's not included: Project-based legal services such as:
- Transactions like financing rounds, M&A projects and corporate restructurings
- Data protection projects such as data protection impact assessments (DPIAs)
- Legal disputes (representation in front of authorities or courts)
- Third-party services provided by external partners (e.g., accounting, tax, audit or IP specialists)
Subscription details
Our Legal Counsel as a Service model is simple and transparent. Here's what you need to know:
- Dedicated legal counsel: A single point of contact is assigned to you, supported by the full Code Law team and network in the background.
- Fixed monthly fee: At the start, a monthly flat rate is agreed upon, corresponding to a specific workload (e.g., 30% / 48 hours). The flat rate is based on a reduced hourly fee — the higher the workload, the lower the hourly fee. Invoices are issued monthly in arrears. A quarterly reconciliation takes place: If fewer hours have been used than agreed, the difference is refunded; if more hours have been worked, the additional time is billed at the reduced hourly rate. If the agreed workload proves to be too high or too low, it can be adjusted at the end of each calendar month.
- Weekly calls: Regular calls between your company and the legal counsel to discuss current tasks, define priorities, and agree on the next steps. The frequency of these calls is flexible and tailored to your needs.
- Cancellation: The subscription can be terminated flexibly at the end of each calendar month.
How to get started
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Intro call
In the first meeting, we discuss your legal needs and determine the appropriate workload.
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Tailored proposal
Based on the intro call, we prepare a tailored proposal (with a fixed monthly fee), which we then review together.
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Kickoff
During the kickoff meeting, we set priorities, define the first tasks, and get straight to work.
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Review
Every quarter, we hold a review session to assess how things are going, adjust the workload if needed, and further optimize our collaboration.
Our team has worked in international law firms, as senior in-house legal counsels, and for fast-growing startups.
These experiences have taught us how to provide high-quality, accessible legal advice — the foundation of our Legal Counsel as a Service approach.
We understand what excellent client service looks like because we’ve been on the client side ourselves. We know how to enable legally sound business decisions pragmatically because we’ve been part of management teams.
We seamlessly integrate into our clients’ organizations, acting as an extension of their legal or corporate teams — always tailored to their needs and with predictable costs.
What our clients say
“With the Legal Counsel as a Service from Code Law, we have the benefit from expert legal support on contract law, data protection, corporate governance and labor law — always tailored to our business. It feels like having an in-house legal team, proactive and always within reach.”
