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Defined recurring legal support, with a clear scope and capacity.
External Legal Counsel Plans
NLF gives Philippine businesses defined monthly legal capacity for recurring corporate, contract, employer, compliance, and management legal issues, with clear scope and separate treatment for major transactions, disputes, BIR matters, and regulatory work.
Core Counsel: ₱75,000/month · Growth Counsel: ₱125,000/month · Strategic Counsel: from ₱200,000/month.
A recurring engagement is built around continuity and managed capacity, not a general promise that every issue will fit. NLF remains independent external counsel. Management retains its own business decisions and promptly supplies the facts, documents, notices, and deadlines needed for an accepted matter.
Counsel does not have to be introduced to the company from scratch for every routine request.
Management knows the recurring legal-service capacity included in the applicable plan.
Accepted matters are triaged, worked, and recorded through a common process.
Substantial projects are identified and separately scoped before they consume recurring capacity.
The standard Core and Growth plans cover one specifically named Philippine legal entity. An affiliate or additional entity requires separate naming, conflict clearance, written inclusion, and pricing. The named entity is the client, not automatically its officers, shareholders, directors, employees, affiliates, or owners.
Core Counsel
₱75,000/month
For businesses with moderate recurring legal needs.
Growth Counsel
₱125,000/month
For a larger recurring flow of contracts and management legal issues.
Strategic Counsel
From ₱200,000/month
Custom recurring legal capacity for materially greater volume, management touchpoints, or multiple business functions.
| Feature | Core | Growth | Strategic |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monthly professional fee | ₱75,000 | ₱125,000 | From ₱200,000 |
| Standard entity coverage | 1 named entity | 1 named entity | Custom by written scope |
| Designated contacts | Up to 2 | Up to 4 | Custom |
| Routine matters | Up to 4 | Up to 8 | Custom |
| Routine contract reviews | Up to 2 within total | Up to 4 within total | Custom |
| Short-form routine drafts | Up to 1 within total | Up to 2 within total | Custom |
| Management meetings | 1 × 60 minutes | 2 × 60 minutes | Custom |
| Monthly Legal Matter Register | Included | Included | Custom workflow |
| Major transactions, disputes, BIR audit defense | Separate scope | Separate scope | Separate unless expressly scoped |
Counsel Onboarding & Legal Operations Setup for standard Core and Growth engagements
₱25,000 one-time
Client and entity identification
Designated contacts and decision-makers
High-level matter and disclosed-deadline inventory
Communication and escalation protocol
High-level conflict mapping
Initial Monthly Legal Matter Register setup
Onboarding does not include substantive cleanup of historical legal problems, a complete legal audit, corporate remediation, historical contract review, BIR audit review, litigation-file review, or employment-file review. Where legacy issues need deeper review, NLF will identify the appropriate separate scope before work begins.
For matters expressly disclosed to and accepted by NLF, the Matter Register records status, NLF action, client action, next date, and responsible person. It is not a complete corporate-compliance monitoring system and does not transfer management responsibility for undisclosed deadlines.
One discrete request involving one principal legal issue and reasonably defined facts.
One initial legal review, advice, or draft plus one reasonable clarification or client-side revision on substantially the same facts.
A clear endpoint, such as a completed advice note, reviewed document, or short routine draft.
No extensive factual investigation, government appearance, material third-party negotiation, dispute work, or exceptionally compressed statutory deadline.
Materially changed facts, instructions, counterparty drafts, new legal issues, negotiations, disputes, government proceedings, or substantially more documents can create a new matter or require a separate scope. The firm determines whether a request fits the agreed routine-matter definition.
A review of a supplier agreement, advice on director signing authority, review of an employment-contract provision, and a routine secretary's certificate may each be accepted as one matter. The monthly management legal meeting is separately included. Illustrative workload only. Actual matters depend on scope.
These plans provide defined recurring legal capacity. Major transactions, litigation, regulatory proceedings, BIR audit defense, and other substantial projects are separately scoped so routine support remains managed and predictable. If a request exceeds scope, NLF identifies the issue and seeks approval before material additional work. It does not silently impose automatic hourly overages.
Live BIR notices or audit controversy are assessed through the BIR Notice Review & Response Plan. A broad unresolved legal position may need a Business Legal Risk Review. Corporate reconstruction or remediation may need a Corporate Compliance & Governance Review. A live employee disciplinary process may need an Employer Disciplinary Due Process Pack.
Receipt and initial classification are distinct from a substantive legal response, which depends on complexity, documents, deadline, conflicts, and workload. A statutory deadline, hearing, government inquiry, data breach, or other legal emergency may receive initial triage, but full execution or representation requires separate confirmation. Matter and meeting capacity does not automatically roll forward, subject to written engagement terms.
No. The standard plan covers one named legal entity. Additional entities must be specifically named, conflict-cleared, included in writing, and reflected in pricing.
No. Core and Growth plans use designated representatives. Additional contacts may be separately approved through the written engagement.
Monthly matter and meeting capacity does not automatically accumulate or carry forward, subject to the written engagement terms and applicable professional obligations.
Routine review includes defined review, risk comments, or limited markup where appropriate. Negotiation, multiple counterparty cycles, transaction management, and complex documents are separately assessed.
The representation is for the named company. Personal representation of officers, shareholders, directors, managers, or employees requires separate conflict analysis and engagement where appropriate.
The fit screen asks for high-level business information only. NLF will confirm the legal client entity, expected capacity, conflicts, onboarding needs, and whether a recurring counsel engagement is appropriate.
Please do not send passwords, OTPs, bulk records, or detailed confidential legal facts at this stage. Submitting an inquiry does not mean that Nopuente Law Firm has accepted the company as a client or agreed to handle any legal matter. Any engagement remains subject to conflict clearance, scope confirmation, and written acceptance by the firm.
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