Business contracts — drafted and reviewed in plain English

You agreed on a price and a start date. The other side sends a PDF. It has a renewal that rolls forever, a limit on what they owe you, and a state you’ve never been to.

Or you’re the one sending the PDF, and it’s a template from a different industry. The customer signs. Nobody could explain the cancellation clause out loud.

I want the contract to say the deal you think you have. Plain words. Still enforceable. If a sentence only works because it’s confusing, it doesn’t belong in your file.

Vendor agreements. Customer agreements. Services agreements. Independent contractor agreements. The employment agreements the business hub already lists, when you actually have an employee and not a contractor you’re hoping is one.

I review the draft the other side sent, or I write yours. Tell me which. A review is comments and a rewrite of the clauses that are wrong. A draft starts from the deal, not from their paper.

I don’t file trademarks, and I don’t form nonprofits. If the “contract” is really a brand registration, I’ll say so.

What you are selling, and what you are not. When you get paid. What happens if they don’t pay.

Who owns the work at the end. How either side can end it. What the limit is on what one side pays if something breaks.

Which state’s law applies. If you are in Utah and the draft picks somewhere else, that is a decision, not a footnote. I’m licensed in Utah, Arizona, and Texas, so a clause that picks one of those is a conversation I can actually have.

Utah limits post-employment restrictions. Some workers can’t be bound, and a restriction that runs too long can fail. I don’t drop a non-compete into a contract because a template had one.

If you want one, or you were handed one, I read it against the current Utah rules and tell you what I would change. I don’t promise a court will do what either of us hopes.

Send the draft, or describe the deal if there isn’t one yet. I quote a flat fee after I see the size of it. A two-page services agreement is not a twenty-page customer contract.

No hourly meter. No price list on this page. Published business pricing stops at LLC formation, on the pricing page. If the contract is really a sale of the company, say that. It’s a different page and a different file.