San Diego business contract attorney — flat fees, drafting-first.

A drafting practice, not a litigation firm's contracts page

Most San Diego firms offering contract work are litigation firms — drafting is the side business, and the same page that offers to write your contract offers to sue over it. Think Legal runs the other way: we're transactional only. Contracts are the core of the practice, drafted from the failure modes backward — the missing clause, the imprecise definition, the fee-shifting provision that wasn't there — so the dispute never has a document to feed on.

If you're already in a contract dispute, we're not the right engagement — we refer to California litigation counsel we trust. What we take on is everything before that point: the drafting, the review of the other side's paper, and the negotiation that settles terms while everyone's still on speaking terms.

What San Diego businesses bring us

San Diego's business mix shows up directly in the contract work. Life-science and biotech consultants around Sorrento Mesa and Torrey Pines need consulting agreements with IP assignment and confidentiality terms that survive scrutiny. Defense and government subcontractors near Kearny Mesa and Miramar sign primes' flow-down terms that deserve a careful read before signature. Hospitality and tourism operators run on vendor and service agreements. And the county's agencies, consultancies, and trades live on client service agreements — the contract that decides what happens when a client engagement goes sideways.

The catalog is the same one the statewide practice runs: client service agreements and MSAs with statements of work, vendor and supplier agreements, one-way and mutual NDAs, independent-contractor agreements built against the ABC test, licensing and IP assignments, partnership and joint-venture agreements.

Pricing you can see before you call

A single custom contract is $1,495 flat (S3) — discovery call, structured intake, complete first draft with explanatory notes, one round of revisions. First drafts typically land 7–14 business days from intake. Reviews of counterparty paper are quoted at intake, and multi-document scopes get a flat quote at the discovery call. No hourly meter, no fee mystery — the quote comes before the engagement letter, not after.

Where we are

7220 Trade Street, Suite 101, San Diego, CA 92121. Sorrento Mesa — between UTC and Mira Mesa, office hours Monday–Friday 9–5 PT. Contract work runs cleanly by video and email, so most engagements never require a visit; the office is there when working through a deal in person helps.

San Diego County — and the rest of California

Regular contract work for businesses in downtown San Diego, UTC, Sorrento Valley, Mission Valley, Carlsbad, Vista, Oceanside, Escondido, Chula Vista, El Cajon, and La Mesa — and for California businesses statewide. The contracts are governed by California law either way; geography adds the in-person option, not a different work product.