How We Work
Loop Litigation offers flat-fee, subscription, and hourly pricing, with fixed rates set by phase, document, or matter type. Clients are billed for attorney time only — never for AI agent production time. Prices for defined work are published below.
What working with us looks like
You reach out.
A lawyer reads it — not an intake coordinator.
We talk.
Usually within one business day. We'll tell you what we think the matter actually is, which is sometimes different from what you thought it was.
You get a number, in writing, within 48 hours.
Scope, price, structure, and what's not included.
You get a date.
Every deliverable has one before work starts.
You get your high-quality deliverable — fast.
You get what you need. Give your feedback straight to an expert, seasoned lawyer for fast edits.
How our pricing works
Traditional firms bill by the hour because their cost structure demands it. Ours doesn't. Our custom attorney-built AI agents eliminate the production hours you'd normally pay a team of associates and paralegals to perform — so you pay for senior judgment, not overhead. We offer the structure that actually fits your matter:
Flat fee fits well-defined, repeatable work where scope is clear up front. You know the price before we start.
Subscription / retainer fits companies with consistent, higher-volume legal needs that benefit from predictable budgeting and on-call availability.
Hourly works when the path forward is less defined, or when you want the compounding efficiency of AI-accelerated work passed straight through to you. Work that took hours in the pre-LLM era now takes a fraction of that — and that trend is accelerating.
Tell us what you're facing and we'll recommend the structure that makes the most sense — not the one that bills the most.
What things cost
Most firms won't put a number on a page. Here are ours. Every one is a starting point quoted flat before we begin — not an estimate, and not an hourly rate that moves.
Litigation
Dispute Assessment — $3,500
You send us the documents. Five business days later you get a written memo: what the claims and defenses actually are, what the realistic outcomes look like, what it would cost, how long it would take, and what we'd recommend doing. The five-day turnaround runs from the day we have your documents, and it's written into your engagement letter — not a marketing promise.
72-Hour Departing Employee Response — $5,500
A key person left with your customers, your data, or your team. Within 72 hours: an analysis of what your agreements actually let you enforce, a preservation plan, a go/no-go recommendation on emergency injunctive relief, and a demand letter ready to send.
Demand letter and pre-suit negotiation — $3,500
Complaint or answer, with case strategy — from $9,500
TRO/preliminary injunction through hearing — quoted by phase, typically $25,000–$45,000
E-discovery and discovery counsel
Early case assessment, defined dataset — from $6,500
ESI protocol negotiation — from $4,500
Document review — quoted per custodian or per document after a data assessment
Hourly
$400–$550 per hour for most matters. For comparison: partners at large national firms commonly bill $1,200 and up, before associate and paralegal time is layered on top.
Subscriptions
You can't subscribe to a lawsuit — the variance is too high. What you can subscribe to is everything around it: the advice, the letters, the reviews, and the judgment calls that decide whether a dispute becomes a lawsuit at all. Active litigation is quoted flat by phase, at a subscriber rate.
Brand Protection — $400–$900/month
For companies with a trademark portfolio to keep alive.
- Portfolio docketing and deadline management
- Section 8, 15, and renewal filings handled
- Watch notices reviewed, with a written call on each
- Up to two clearance screens a year
- One demand letter a year
- An annual brand audit
Dispute Readiness — $2,500–$6,000/month
For companies without a legal department that want a litigator on call before things escalate.
- Incoming and outgoing demand letters
- Contract dispute triage
- Litigation hold advice
- Departing-employee response protocol
- Annual restrictive covenant audit
- 48-hour response commitment
Capped at a defined volume each month. Filed litigation is quoted flat by phase at a subscriber rate.
Standing discovery counsel arrangement — no monthly fee
For firms and legal departments that expect to send work more than once. We'll put a rate card and a master engagement in place up front, so when a matter lands you aren't negotiating terms under a deadline. You pay only for work performed.
All subscription tiers: cancel monthly, no term commitment. Unused capacity rolls one month. Overage rate stated up front. What's excluded is listed in writing before you sign.
Frequently asked questions
How does the AI actually work on my matter?
Context and intake. We take in your matter documents and your risk profile. Because your lawyer has sat in the GC chair, we know the right context to capture from day one.
Accelerated processing. We use our tools to do the heavy lifting — surfacing what's in the record and drafting initial positions at speeds a traditional staffing model can't match.
Review and execution. Every output is filtered through hard-earned trial and advisory experience before it goes anywhere. The velocity of automation, backed by an expert review and editing process.
How does your rate compare to Big Law?
Our rate is $400–$550 an hour for most matters. Partners at large national firms commonly bill $1,200 and up — and that's before associate and paralegal hours get layered on top of the same matter. Two things bring the total down here: the rate is lower, and the hours are far lower, because our agents eliminate the production work you'd otherwise pay a team to perform. You're paying for judgment, not for the pyramid underneath it.
Do you bill for time the AI saves?
No. When AI does in minutes what used to take hours, those hours are gone — you shouldn't be paying for them. ABA Formal Opinion 512 reaches the same conclusion about generative AI and legal fees, and it's the principle this firm was built on.
You're billed for attorney time: the reviewing, the judgment, the deliverable. Never for agent production time. Where a matter requires running your documents through dedicated tooling — large-scale document review, for example — that cost is built into the fee we quote you, before you agree to it.
Do you offer flat fees, retainers, or monthly packages?
Yes — hourly, flat fee, and subscription arrangements. Flat fees suit well-defined, repeatable work with clear scope. Subscriptions or retainers suit companies with consistent, high-volume needs that value predictable budgeting and on-call availability. Hourly suits less-defined work, or when you want AI-driven efficiency gains passed directly through to you. Reach out and we'll talk through your situation and recommend a fit.
What's included in the hourly rate?
Actual attorney time — reading the record, making the calls, and delivering work you can act on. Research, review and drafting time that an agent handles is not billed at all, and neither is the administrative time a traditional firm passes through: file management, scheduling, and routine correspondence. You are billed for the judgment behind the deliverable, and the rate is the same whether a matter takes one hour or forty.