For Technology Companies
Legal Help for Bay Area Tech Companies
Get immediate legal support and commercial agreement review while we place the right full-time, in-house lawyer for your team. One partner, start to finish.
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Two Ways We Help
Growing technology companies usually arrive with one of two problems: legal work piling up right now, or a lawyer to hire. These are handled by two different practices, and you can start with either one.
Scale Up Counsel
I need to hire a lawyer
Full-time in-house placement and flex or contract attorneys. We source, screen, and place the lawyer who joins your team, whether that is a first legal hire, a General Counsel, or temporary coverage through a busy quarter.
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I need legal work done now
Fractional General Counsel support and commercial agreement review, handled directly by our legal services practice. Contracts keep moving whether or not you ever make a hire.
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Hiring Your In-House Lawyer
This is what Scale Up Counsel does. We recruit and place the attorney who joins your team, permanently or on a flexible basis, using the same Bay Area network we use to staff Am Law 50 firms.
Full-Time In-House Placement
We recruit and place your permanent legal hire, from a first in-house counsel to a General Counsel or a specialist commercial, privacy, or employment attorney, drawing on our Bay Area BigLaw network.
Flex and Contract Attorneys
Experienced attorneys on a temporary or project basis for financing rounds, diligence sprints, contract backlogs, and parental leave coverage. Scale legal capacity up and down without adding headcount.
Scoping the First Legal Hire
If you have never hired a lawyer before, we help you define what the role should actually be, GC versus commercial counsel, senior versus mid-level, before you write the job description.
How the search works
Scoping call
We map what is on your legal desk now, what is coming in the next two quarters, and whether the answer is a full-time hire, flex coverage, or both.
We run the search
We source, screen, and present in-house candidates who fit your stage, your product, and your team, using our network of Bay Area attorneys and proprietary fit scoring.
Interviews and offer
We coordinate interview loops, gather structured feedback, benchmark compensation against the in-house market, and support the offer and close.
Handoff and integration
Your new lawyer starts with organized contract templates, playbooks, and open matters rather than a cold start, so the first ninety days are productive.
Track two
Immediate Legal Support
A search takes weeks. Your contracts do not wait that long. Fractional General Counsel coverage and commercial agreement review are handled by our legal services practice, which operates separately from the recruiting side.
Engagements run hourly with no retainer, as a monthly subscription scaled to your workload, or at a flat fee for defined work. Details and full pricing live on the legal services site.
Commercial agreements
- MSAs and SaaS agreements
- Order forms and statements of work
- Data processing agreements
- Contract review and redlines
Company and financing
- Delaware incorporation
- Equity plan setup
- SAFEs and convertible notes
- Employment and contractor agreements
Product and IP
- Privacy policies and terms of service
- AI governance and vendor review
- IP assignments
- Trademark strategy
Who We Work With
Seed to Series C startups
Companies signing their first enterprise customers, raising priced rounds, and realizing that founders should not be redlining MSAs at midnight.
Companies making a first legal hire
If you have never hired a lawyer before, we help you decide what the role should actually be before you write the job description, then we fill it.
Existing legal departments
Lean in-house teams that need to add commercial, privacy, or employment coverage, or that need flex support through a diligence sprint or a leave.
Bay Area and beyond
Our roots are in San Francisco, Palo Alto, and the wider Bay Area technology market, and we place attorneys for remote and distributed teams nationwide.
Start Your Search
For a full-time in-house hire or flex attorney coverage. Tell us what the role needs to cover and we will take it from there.
Looking for legal work rather than a hire? That runs through our legal services practice at ezraclark.com.