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Virtual Legal Counsel

Your in-house legal team — without the in-house cost.

A dedicated legal counsel on call for your startup or MSME: contracts drafted and reviewed, consultations on demand, compliance kept clean, and proactive legal work every week — for a fixed, predictable monthly fee.

₹15–40 L/yrWhat a full-time GC costs — you start at ₹6,999/mo
DedicatedA counsel who knows your business, not a call centre
ProactiveWeekly offline hours spent fixing your legal foundation

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Virtual Legal Counsel puts a dedicated legal brain in your corner — before problems cost you money, time or a deal.
Simple, Predictable Monthly Plans

Choose your Virtual Legal Counsel plan

One fixed monthly fee. A real legal partner doing real work — drafting, advising, checking compliance and proactively protecting your business. Pick the level of cover your stage needs.

Basic Plan
₹6,999/mo
+ taxes · billed monthly
  • 3 contract drafts, reviews, or document reviews per month.
  • 6 legal consultations per month.
  • Standard legal check.
  • 1 hour of dedicated offline legal work per week.
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Standard Plan
₹14,999/mo
+ taxes · billed monthly
  • 6 contract drafts, reviews, or document reviews per month.
  • 10 legal consultations per month.
  • Standard legal check.
  • Priority support.
  • 2 hours of dedicated offline legal work per week.
Advanced Plan
₹34,499/mo
+ taxes · billed monthly
  • 10 legal drafting, review, or document review assignments per month.
  • 20 legal consultations per month.
  • Custom legal check per month.
  • Priority support.
  • 5 hours of dedicated offline legal work per week.

What each inclusion actually does for you

Every line in your plan is a working part of your legal department — here's why it matters.

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Contract Drafting / Review

Every contract you sign is either protection or a hidden liability. We draft and vet them so you never sign blind — catching one-sided clauses before they cost you.

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Legal Consultations (30 min)

On-call counsel for the decisions you can't Google. Quick, founder-friendly sessions that turn "I'm not sure if this is legal" into a clear answer the same week.

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Compliance Check

Missed filings and lapses become penalties and notices. We keep a standing eye on your statutory compliance so small misses never become big fines.

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Dedicated Offline Work

The real differentiator: guaranteed weekly hours your counsel spends proactively building and fixing your legal foundation — policies, templates, clean-ups — not just reacting.

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Priority Support

Deals move fast; legal shouldn't be the bottleneck. Priority turnaround means your contracts and questions jump the queue when timing matters.

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Custom Legal Strategy

At the Advanced level, your counsel works at board level — tailoring compliance and a legal roadmap to your growth, fundraising and risk profile.

All plans are billed monthly, exclusive of applicable taxes (GST). Unused monthly allowances do not carry forward. Plans can be upgraded as your business scales.

Plan terms in brief.

Prices exclude 18% GST and are billed monthly; plans auto-renew until cancelled.

Document, consultation and offline-hour allowances are for one business entity, lapse at the end of each month (offline hours lapse each week), and cannot be carried forward or exchanged.

Dedicated Offline Work is Counsel time reserved for your business every week, used for proactive legal work or any in-scope task you request; it is remote work, not in-person visits, and is a commitment of time, not a guaranteed result.

The Standard Legal Check (Basic and Standard) and Custom Legal Check (Advanced) are oral sessions with your Counsel, held once a month at your request, reviewing your contracts, people, IP, data, recovery and dispute risks; the Custom check adds sector law, investor obligations, a risk register and a 30- and 90-day legal roadmap. They are legal advice only and do not include statutory compliance, returns or filings.

Litigation, government filings and fees, stamp duty, audits and tax filings are not included.

Legal services are provided by independent advocates and professionals on the NoLegalPaisa network; NoLegalPaisa does not itself practise law and acts only as a facilitator; your professional relationship is with your Counsel, under a separate engagement agreement signed after payment.

No outcome is guaranteed.

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Founder reviewing legal documents with their virtual counsel
Why Startups & MSMEs Need This

You face legal questions every week. A full-time lawyer isn't realistic.

  • ✕A full-time General Counsel costs ₹15–40 lakh a yearMost startups and MSMEs simply can't justify that hire — so legal gets ignored until something breaks.
  • ✕Contracts get signed blindVendor, customer and partnership agreements hide liabilities founders never see until a dispute arrives.
  • ✕Compliance slips through the cracksMissed filings and lapses quietly pile up into penalties, notices and lost credibility.
  • ✕Legal becomes reactive — and expensiveCalling a lawyer only in a crisis means paying premium fees to fix what could have been prevented.

Virtual Legal Counsel gives you a dedicated legal partner for a fraction of a full-time hire — predictable, proactive, and built for how founders actually work.

Your On-Call Legal Department

What your Virtual Legal Counsel handles

One partner across the legal work a growing business runs into — so you stay focused on building.

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Contracts & Agreements

Drafting, reviewing and negotiating vendor, customer and partnership contracts.

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On-Demand Advice

Quick consultations on the day-to-day legal calls founders have to make.

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Compliance Tracking

Standing checks on statutory filings and obligations so nothing lapses.

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Legal Notices & Replies

Sending and responding to notices, demands and recovery communications.

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IP & Confidentiality

NDAs, IP assignments and protecting what makes your business yours.

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Employment & HR

Offer letters, employment agreements, ESOP docs and labour-law basics.

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Fundraising Support

Term-sheet review, founder docs and getting investor-ready paperwork right.

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Legal Strategy

A proactive legal roadmap aligned with your growth and risk profile.

Simple to Start

How your counsel works with you

Onboarded in days, then a steady monthly rhythm of on-demand answers and proactive work.

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Pick your plan

Choose the cover level that fits your stage and sign up in minutes.

2
Meet your counsel

We map your business, contracts and risks, and assign your dedicated counsel.

3
Work on demand

Send contracts, book consults and get priority answers as you need them.

4
Proactive hours

Each week your counsel spends dedicated offline time strengthening your legal base.

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Meet your Virtual Legal Counsel

A quick look at how a dedicated, on-call counsel changes the way you run your business.

Why NoLegalPaisa

A champion product, built for Indian founders

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Dedicated, not a call centre

A counsel who learns your business and stays with it — continuity, not a new stranger every time.

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Predictable, fixed fee

No hourly surprises. A flat monthly cost you can budget — a fraction of a full-time hire.

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Built for speed

Priority turnaround and our AI assistant Rajah mean fast first drafts, reviewed by professionals.

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Full bench behind you

Lawyers, CAs and CS on the NolegalPaisa network — escalation power when a matter needs it.

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Proactive, not reactive

Guaranteed weekly hours mean problems get prevented, not just fought after they cost you.

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Confidential & secure

Your contracts, data and strategy are handled in a secure, confidential workflow.

About the Service

What "Virtual Legal Counsel" really means

Virtual Legal Counsel (VLC) is a subscription-based, remote in-house legal function for startups and MSMEs. Instead of hiring a full-time General Counsel — a cost most growing businesses cannot justify — you get a dedicated counsel and the backing of NolegalPaisa's professional network, on a fixed monthly fee.

For most Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises in India, a full-time legal hire is out of reach, yet these businesses face legal questions almost every day: reviewing contracts, meeting statutory filings, answering vendor disputes and navigating employment rules. The absence of timely legal advice leads to costly mistakes, delayed payments and avoidable risk.

VLC bridges the gap between expensive, reactive law firms and the unaffordable full-time team. Each plan combines a set number of contract drafts and reviews, scheduled legal consultations, compliance checks and — crucially — guaranteed weekly dedicated offline hours in which your counsel proactively works on your legal foundation rather than only reacting to fires.

It also sends a strong signal to customers, investors and partners that your business is professionally managed and legally sound — credibility that helps win contracts and secure funding. In short, VLC democratises access to quality legal advice: scalable, tech-enabled and affordable, so you can focus on growth without leaving your legal foundations exposed.

Dedicated virtual legal counsel at work
Service details, fair usage & disclaimer — tap to read⌄

About this service. Virtual Legal Counsel (VLC) is a subscription-based, remote in-house legal function for startups and MSMEs, delivered by qualified professionals on the NoLegalPaisa network. Each plan gives you access to a dedicated counsel and a fixed monthly bundle of contract drafting/review, 30-minute legal consultation sessions, a compliance check, priority support (on the Standard and Advanced plans) and guaranteed weekly dedicated offline hours used to proactively build and maintain your legal foundation. It is designed to replace the need for an unaffordable full-time General Counsel while avoiding the unpredictable cost of purely reactive law-firm engagements.

What the plans include. Each plan provides a fixed monthly allowance of contract drafts/reviews and 30-minute consultation sessions, a compliance check (standard, or custom strategy & compliance on the Advanced plan), priority support where stated, and a set number of dedicated offline working hours per week. "Contract drafting/review" refers to standard commercial documents of reasonable length and complexity; unusually long, multi-party, bespoke or specialised matters may be scoped separately.

Fair usage policy. Monthly allowances are provided on a fair-usage basis for the genuine, ongoing legal needs of a single business entity. Allowances — contracts, consultations and offline hours — are personal to your account: they cannot be pooled across multiple entities, transferred, shared, resold or stockpiled, and any unused units lapse at the end of each monthly billing cycle. Each unit of "contract drafting/review" covers one standard commercial document of reasonable length; very long, complex, multi-party or specialised documents may consume more than one unit or be re-scoped by mutual agreement. Consultation sessions are 30 minutes each and should be booked in advance, subject to counsel availability. Dedicated offline hours are applied on a best-effort basis within the relevant week and are not a guarantee of any specific deliverable within that time. We reserve the right to conduct a fair-usage review and to re-scope, pause or decline service where usage is excessive, abusive, automated, or materially outside the intended scope of the plan.

Nature of the service. VLC is an advisory and document-support service delivered remotely on a subscription basis. It provides general and transaction-level legal support; it does not, by itself, create an engagement for litigation or court representation, which — where required — is scoped and engaged separately. Specialised work such as litigation, registrations, audits and filings before authorities may attract additional fees outside the monthly plan.

No guaranteed outcome. Legal advice reduces risk; it cannot eliminate it. We do not guarantee any specific commercial, regulatory or dispute outcome. All advice is based on the information and documents you provide, and the accuracy and completeness of that information remains your responsibility.

Pricing & billing. All prices (₹6,999 / ₹14,999 / ₹34,499 per month) are exclusive of applicable taxes (GST) and are billed monthly. Plans renew until cancelled in line with the engagement terms and can be upgraded as your needs grow.

Independent advisory. NoLegalPaisa is a legal-tech and advisory platform operated by Kaahmuchee Solution Private Limited. It is not affiliated with any government authority. Services are delivered by qualified professionals on our network and are subject to a separate written engagement agreement and our confidentiality terms. This page is for general information and is not itself legal advice.

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