Bringing legal work into the 21st century.

Goodlawyer has a competitive selection process that follows 5 steps.

1. Online Application

   Submit an online application to indicate your interest in joining Goodlawyer. We also collect information about a lawyer’s practice experience, employment history and education, and other indicators that make lawyers successful on our platform.

2. Initial Interview

   We conduct an initial interview with a member of our Lawyer Experience Team to assess the lawyer’s interpersonal characteristics like professionalism and friendliness, as well as their motivations for joining the Goodlawyer network.

3. Deep-Dive Interview

   Lawyers then meet with our Head of Legal Talent and/or Lawyer-in-Residence to assess the lawyer’s skill and approach to practice. We look for technical knowledge and compatibility with Goodlawyer’s fundamental values: (i) professionalism (ii) quality (iii) fairness and transparency, and (iv) elevated customer experience.

4. Reference Checks

   Lawyers are asked to provide some recent client and/or peer references.

5. Code of Conduct

   Lawyers must read and accept Goodlawyer's Code of Conduct before being allowed to take clients over the platform.

6. Continuous Monitoring

   We continuously monitor, collect, and review client feedback, removing any lawyers that fail to maintain our practice standards and expectations.

From our standardized fixed-fee startup services, to custom projects, to fully integrated Fractional General Counsel, Goodlawyer’s network of experts can cover all aspects of business law. We exclusively onboard lawyers with experience working in Corporate, Commercial and Business Law, Commercial Transactions, Technology Contracting, Debt and Equity Financing, M&A, Intellectual Property, Employment, Privacy, Regulatory, Corporate Tax, Commercial Litigation, Business Immigration, and more.

We do NOT provide legal services around personal issues like Criminal Law, Personal Injury, Family or Divorce Law, Elder Law, etc.

Most engagements on Goodlawyer start by meeting a member of our Legal Concierge™ team. The Legal Concierge™ can help you identify the right product, provide tailored recommendations for lawyers in our network, help you navigate the platform, and provide on-demand support to you and your lawyer throughout your legal projects. Note that the Legal Concierge™ team are not lawyers and do not provide legal services or advice.

Learn more about our free Legal Concierge™ service.

Goodlawyer is available across Canada. With over 120 specialized lawyers from coast to coast, we can help Canadian businesses just about anywhere. Coverage in the Territories however is limited, please speak with our Legal Concierge™ team.

If you’re a lawyer in the Territories, learn more about joining Goodlawyer and expanding your practice.

For project-based services, the standard billing cadence is for your lawyer to bill your payment method on file upon delivery of the first complete draft. You will have 30 days to request minor revisions (less than 30 minutes of lawyer time). If you require other arrangements, please discuss them with your lawyer.

Yes. Goodlawyer encrypts all data in transit and at rest and runs automatic backups on redundant servers. We also conduct regular third-party security penetration tests and run daily malware scans to ensure our platform is safe.

Additionally, Goodlawyer and our employees follow strict confidentiality and privacy guidelines and take the utmost care to protect any information that is shared with us by our customers.

Read Goodlawyer’s Policies to learn more.

Of course — that’s the beauty of Goodlawyer. Expecting a single lawyer to be competent in all areas of law is simply unrealistic. Like engineers and doctors, lawyers can be highly specialized in a certain area of law and extremely inexperienced in another. But on Goodlawyer, you never have to worry about that. With our growing network of top talent, we can all but guarantee that we will be able to find the right specialist for any of your business legal needs.

It’s simple — technology. By creating a platform that gives lawyers and clients tools to connect and work together more efficiently, we reduce the overall cost of a service. Traditionally, lawyers use the billable hour model to recoup all the costs of their non-legal work — things like marketing, client intake, business administration and accounting. By off-loading some of that "non-billable” work to us, they can spend more time doing the legal work that pays — and charge less for it.