Hiring a full-time lawyer means six-figure salaries, recruitment costs, and months before they're up to speed. Relying on external firms means catch-up calls, surprise invoices, and lawyers who never quite get your business.
Lawpath In-House is the middle ground - a dedicated lawyer embedded in your operations, backed by a full legal team, at a fraction of the cost of a traditional hire.
You're not calling whoever's available - and you're not carrying the overhead of a full-time hire. You have a dedicated lawyer who builds a real understanding of your operations - your contracts, your team, your risk profile, your industry. Every conversation starts with context already in the room. When specialist expertise is needed across employment, IP, disputes, or corporate matters, your team expands to match. No re-explaining. No starting from scratch.
Your lawyer joins your Slack, your Microsoft Teams, your Outlook - whatever your team uses to communicate. They can work from your office, operate on a company laptop, sit in your team meetings, and access your internal systems. This isn't outsourced legal support that sits at arm's length. It's a lawyer who operates as part of your team.
Your lawyer doesn't arrive empty-handed. They bring Lawpath's full library of legal documents, templates, and precedents - built from helping thousands of Australian businesses. Combined with our internal knowledge base spanning corporate, commercial, employment, IP, and compliance, you're not just getting a lawyer. You're plugging into an infrastructure that would take years and significant investment to build internally.
Your engagement starts with a complimentary legal health check - a review of your existing contracts, employment agreements, IP, and compliance posture. From there, your lawyer proactively identifies risks, develops templates and playbooks tailored to your business, and keeps you ahead of issues before they become problems. Less firefighting, more forward planning.
There's no fixed menu. Whether you need contract drafting and review, employment law guidance, intellectual property protection, regulatory compliance, internal policies - workplace policies, privacy policies, procurement procedures, employee handbooks, IT and acceptable use - or a combination of everything, we scope your engagement around what you actually need. As your business evolves, your legal support scales with it.
Service levels, engagement structure, and terms are all shaped around your business requirements. Need an intensive secondment for a specific project - an acquisition, a regulatory overhaul, a product launch? We can do that too. Trial periods are available so you can experience the value before committing long-term.
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Your engagement is scoped entirely around your business needs. Common areas of support include contract drafting and review, employment law, intellectual property, regulatory compliance, corporate advisory, and dispute support – but there’s no fixed menu. We work with you to define what’s covered based on what your business actually requires.
Lawpath offers a range of legal solutions depending on where your business is at. Lawpath In-House is designed for businesses that need a dedicated lawyer embedded in their operations – someone working in your tools, attending your meetings, and proactively managing your legal needs. It’s the difference between calling a lawyer when something comes up and having one on your team.
Lawpath In-House is structured as a fixed monthly retainer with a set number of allocated hours per month and a minimum engagement period. You know exactly what you’re paying each month – no surprise invoices, no billable-hour anxiety. This structure ensures your lawyer has enough time to genuinely embed in your business and deliver meaningful value – not just react to one-off requests. Pricing is tailored to your requirements, so get in touch and we’ll put together a proposal.
However your team communicates, your lawyer meets you there. That could be a dedicated Slack channel, Microsoft Teams, Outlook, phone, video, or working on-site from your office. If you want your lawyer operating from a company laptop within your internal systems, that’s an option too.
You can – and for some businesses, that’s the right call. But a full-time hire means recruitment costs, a $150-200k+ salary package, superannuation, leave cover, HR overhead, and the risk of a single point of failure. With Lawpath In-House, you get a dedicated lawyer backed by a broader specialist team across employment, IP, commercial, and corporate – without the fixed cost. You can scale hours up or down as your needs change, and you’re never left without cover if your lawyer is on leave or unavailable.
Everything is tailored. We don’t publish standard terms because every engagement is different. Response times, turnaround commitments, engagement length, and scope are all discussed and agreed based on your requirements.
Yes. We offer trial periods so you can experience how the engagement works and the value it delivers before committing to a longer-term arrangement.
Dispute and litigation support can be included in your engagement, or handled separately at preferential rates for In-House clients. We’ll work with you to determine the right structure.
Yes. Every Lawpath In-House client receives complimentary access to our platform for the duration of the engagement, giving you document management, invoicing, and legal resources in one place.
Talk to us about how Lawpath In-House can work for your business.
We'll start with a free legal health check to understand your needs and show you what dedicated legal support looks like.
