General Counsel, on retainer

Legal counsel you hire you retain — only when the startup needs it.

NextGen Startup Attorneys is outside general counsel for founders building SaaS and venture-backed startups: contracts, fundraising, and compliance, handled by Sandra Morgana, the attorney who already knows your cap table.

Book a 20-min intro call See practice areas

40+ startups advised Pre-seed → Series B stage range <48hr average turnaround

$Founder of Fractional Counsel Co., startup and SaaS attorney$

Sandra Morgana — Outside General Counsel, SaaS & Venture

Practice areas

One attorney, the full lifecycle of a startup's legal work.

No generalist firm hand-offs. No hourly-billing guesswork. Fixed-scope fractional counsel built around how SaaS companies actually operate.

Contracts

MSAs, DPAs & Order Forms

Customer and vendor paper drafted and redlined for how your product actually sells — usage-based, seat-based, or enterprise.

Fundraising

SAFEs & Priced Rounds

Financing documents, term sheet review, and investor negotiation support from pre-seed SAFE through a priced Series A/B.

IP & Product

IP Assignment & Licensing

Founder and contractor IP assignment, open-source review, and licensing terms that hold up in diligence.

People

Equity & Employment

Offer letters, equity grants, advisor agreements, and the employment policies that scale past your first ten hires.

Compliance

Privacy & Data Compliance

GDPR/CCPA-ready privacy policies and data processing terms built for SaaS products handling customer data.

Partnerships

Vendor & Channel Agreements

Reseller, integration, and channel partner contracts that protect margin without stalling the deal.

How it works

From first call to ongoing counsel, in four steps.

01 — Day 0

Book an intro call

A 20-minute call, scheduled instantly below, to hear where the startup is today and where the legal risk actually sits.

02 — Day 0

Complete the intake form

A short questionnaire on entity structure, cap table, and current contracts — so the call starts with answers, not discovery.

03 — Day 2

Get a fixed-scope proposal

A written scope and flat monthly retainer, sized to your stage — no hourly clock, no surprise invoices.

04 — Ongoing

Retain fractional counsel

Contracts turned around, questions answered, and legal risk flagged before it reaches your board deck.

Try it

Book your intro call — see the same flow a founder gets.

This is the real booking-to-intake sequence, running live: pick a slot, fill the intake form, and it confirms itself. No back-and-forth email required.

Booking flow

1. Pick a time

2. Intake form

3. Confirmed

Pick a time

All times shown in your local timezone. Calls run 20 minutes.

July 2026

Quick intake

Two minutes — this is what lets the call start with answers instead of discovery.

Name

Company

Company stage

Most urgent need

You're booked

Here's exactly what a founder sees — and what fires automatically behind it.

Call—

Name—

Company—

Focus area—

⚙ Behind the scenes: a calendar invite and confirmation email sent instantly, the lead logged to CRM as "Call Booked," and — since the form was completed — the intake brief attached to the call, skipping the nurture sequence entirely. If a founder books but doesn't finish this form, a 3-email nurture sequence starts automatically over the next 10 days.

Attorney and founder of Fractional Counsel Co.

About counsel

Sandra Morgana, Esq.

Startup legal work, without the law-firm markup.

She spent the first part of her career inside law firms billing startups by the hour for work that didn't need a full firm behind it. NextGen Startup Attorneys exists to give founders the same caliber of counsel — SAFE notes, SaaS contracts, IP, employment — at a flat monthly rate, from someone who stays with the company past the first deal.

Today she works with a small, deliberately limited roster of SaaS and venture-backed startups, so every client gets a lawyer who already knows their business when the next question comes in.

J.D., Corporate & Securities Law Licensed — State Bar Former Big Law, Startup Practice Group 40+ SaaS & venture clients advised