Practice Area

Employment

Offer letters, advisor and contractor agreements, equity grants, employment policies, and more, all drafted and redlined to BigLaw standard. We provide these at a flat fee, turned around in hours instead of weeks.

§ 01 — Overview

Your contracts shouldn't slow down your business

Stalled contracts can hold businesses up for weeks. We move at lightning speed: send the contract over Slack, email, or the portal, get a flat-fee quote, and have a marked-up draft back within hours.

Our team has worked on hundreds of commercial contracts for companies of all sizes. They pair their expert judgment with AI that reads every clause so the review you get is faster and higher quality.

§ 02 — What We Handle

Contracts we handle for you

Offer Letters

Exempt and non-exempt, with comp, at-will status, and IP terms built in.

Advisor & Consultant Agreements

Equity compensation, full IP assignment, and clean termination.

Contractor Agreements

Classification-aware independent contractor terms.

Equity & Incentive Documents

Grants coordinated with your offers and cap table.

Separation & Releases

Clean, defensible exits with proper releases.

Misc / Other

Have a contract that doesn't fit a category above? Send it over and we'll scope it.

§ 03 — Your Team

Meet the attorneys who lead this practice area

Robert Wennagel

Senior Counsel

Robert is a Senior Counsel at General Legal. He received his J.D. from UCLA School of Law, and his M.B.A. from Imperial College Business School in London. He has extensive experience in litigation, employment, and commercial transactions both in-house and at large law firms.

Shanita Nicholas

Senior Counsel

Shanita is a Senior Counsel at General Legal. Admitted in California and New York, she holds a JD/MBA from Columbia Law and Business Schools and brings over a decade of corporate experience at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, Kirkland & Ellis, and Booz Allen Hamilton across M&A, emerging growth companies, and government IT consulting.

Stephen Ratner

Sr. Counsel and Forward-Deployed Attorney

Stephen Ratner is a commercial, privacy, and product attorney who advises AI and SaaS companies on enterprise contracting, data use, technology transactions, and operational legal strategy. He has served as in-house counsel at leading AI-video SaaS and adtech companies, where he negotiated complex commercial and data agreements and partnered with product and technical teams on generative-AI, model-training, and privacy issues. Stephen also has product-management experience building legal-technology tools and AI-agent workflows, and previously practiced emerging-companies and venture-fund law at Gunderson Dettmer. Before law school, he served as Deputy Press Secretary to the Attorney General at the U.S. Department of Justice and interned at the White House.

Ready to get started?

15 minutes, no commitment. We'll scope the work, quote a flat fee, and spin up your Slack channel the same day.