Service Plans

Zero attrition since 2018 among our clients doing $10M+ a year. Some have been with us since the day we launched the subscription model. Predictable cost, embedded counsel, and a relationship that sticks — that is what these plans buy.

A fractional general counsel gives a food or beverage company the embedded legal expertise of an in-house lawyer, on a flat monthly fee, without the overhead of a full-time hire. Choose the tier that matches how often legal questions come up in your business.

Each plan is a flat monthly fee — no six-minute increments, no surprise invoices. The right tier depends on your legal cadence and company size.

Ramp — for food businesses with routine legal matters

• Access our industry expertise + connections
• 2 hours phone/online business-management consulting
• No commitment

Best for: early-stage brands testing the relationship before stepping up.

Sustain

• Unlimited emails
• Unlimited 15-minute calls
• Accommodates the legal workflow typical of a growing food business, including contract review, label review, employment questions, customer and supplier issues, and ongoing compliance guidance.
• 3-month commitment

Best for: roughly $5M–$15M businesses with 1–2 contracts a month plus ongoing questions.

Boost

• Unlimited emails
• Unlimited 15-minute calls
• Accommodates a more active legal cadence, including recurring commercial negotiations, product launches, regulatory projects, employment matters, and regular involvement in management decision making.
• 3-month commitment

Best for: $15M–$50M businesses with a steady deal flow and recurring compliance needs.

Excel

• Unlimited emails
• Unlimited 15-minute calls
• Accommodates businesses that integrate legal counsel into strategic planning and operations, including executive-level participation, SOP development, major commercial initiatives, regulatory strategy, and enterprise risk management.
• 2-month commitment

Best for: $50M+ businesses with an active product-launch cadence plus recall and labeling support.

Colleague — integrate us into your business even more

• Executive and legal — advisor, attorney, executive-at-large
• Unlimited access
• Multi-departmental engagement
• Training and workshops
• Manage suppliers, manufacturers, employees, outside consultants and contractors

Give us a company email address and some professional latitude, and we can take it from there. Best for: companies that want counsel embedded from the C-suite to the plant floor; pricing is scoped to the engagement.

• 15-minute calls are scheduled in advance via our automated calendar.
• Emails and unscheduled calls are replied to as soon as possible.
• Specific questions that arise on a call sometimes require additional research where answers are not immediately available.
• Subscribers are notified at least 7 days in advance of any scheduled unavailability, or as soon as possible for anything unscheduled.

Some months require more legal attention than others. Product launches, acquisitions, recalls, retailer disputes, employment issues, and regulatory problems rarely arrive on a predictable schedule. We do not maintain an internal monthly hour target that automatically triggers a rate increase if a client has a particularly busy month. We expect our clients’ legal needs to fluctuate, and occasional periods of heavy utilization are a normal part of the relationship. Our objective is not to maximize revenue from temporary spikes in legal activity. Our objective is to build long-term relationships with growing food businesses. If a client needs extra attention during a difficult month, we generally view that as part of the value of the subscription model, not as an opportunity to revisit pricing. On rare occasions, a business grows to the point where its legal needs consistently exceed the level of engagement a particular plan was designed to support. If that happens, we will have a candid conversation about whether a different tier makes sense. In practice, those conversations are uncommon. Most clients settle into a plan that fits their business and remain there for years.

If your legal needs are occasional and project-based, our traditional flat-fee & hourly billing may be the better fit. If legal is continuous — recurring contracts, label cadence, multi-state compliance — a plan almost always costs less than the un-budgeted hourly variance it replaces. Our budgeting for legal counsel page shows the math against industry benchmarks.

Tell us your revenue band and legal cadence and we will recommend a tier candidly. Schedule a free meeting → The Food Law Firm — Foscolo & Diefenbach PLLC. Last reviewed: June 2026.

Jason Foscolo Founder of The Food Law Firm — fractional general counsel for food & beverage businesses nationwide.