Under your own cover
Determinations delivered white-label, so the deliverable your client receives carries your firm’s name and your firm’s conclusions. We are the research layer, not the adviser.
For practices
You bill for judgement. You are subsidising research.
Before anyone in your firm exercises the judgement a client is paying for, somebody has established which instruments reach that client’s deployment. That work is real, it is slow, and it is the hardest hour on the matter to bill honestly.
For
Law firms · privacy & advisory practices
Model
Per determination, or white-label
The economics of the first four hours
The research is identical across clients. The advice never is.
Establishing that Illinois HB 3773 reaches a hiring deployment is the same work for every client with that shape of deployment. Advising a particular client what to do about it is not, and that is the part they are actually retaining you for.
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Associates do it, partners re-do it
The junior establishes the instrument list; the partner checks it because the consequences of a missed instrument land on the partner. The work is done twice and billed once.
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It does not get faster
Unlike most research, this does not compound. A new client in a new state with a new tool is a fresh applicability question, and the tenth one costs what the first did.
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Writing it off is the usual answer
Most practices absorb it, because a client who is quoted for four hours of establishing what applies before any advice is given tends to ask why.
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The alternative is not cheaper research
It is starting from a cited determination and spending the whole engagement on the judgement, which is the only part that is defensibly yours.
How practices use this
Three arrangements, all of them boring on purpose.
Nothing here requires your client to have a relationship with us, or to know we exist.
As a working paper
The cited determination goes into the matter file as the basis for your advice. Your letter says what you conclude; the working paper shows what was considered.
As a scoping instrument
Run one before the engagement letter. It tells you how large the matter actually is, which makes the scope conversation a factual one.
What this is not. LegisGate produces regulatory intelligence and assessment-preparation materials. Nothing we produce is legal advice, a legal opinion, a certification, or a determination of compliance, and no document we deliver satisfies a legal obligation on its own. Sufficiency is determined by your counsel. We produce regulatory intelligence, not advice. The advice, the conclusions, and the relationship with the client remain entirely yours.
The boundary
We will never advise your client.
It would be a conflict, it would be unauthorised in most of the jurisdictions we cover, and it would destroy the reason a practice can safely put this underneath its own work.
The determination establishes what attaches and cites it. Everything that follows — sufficiency, strategy, risk appetite, the letter — is the practice’s.
Run one on a live matter
Test it against something you have already researched.
The fastest way to evaluate this is on a matter where you already know the answer. If the determination misses something you found, we would genuinely like to know.