The lawyer your company already needs but doesn't have yet
Having a lawyer embedded in your operations is smarter — and more cost-effective — than calling one when something has already gone wrong
- +25 years of experience
- 3,000+ clients advised
- 360º Legal · Tax · Wealth
The problem no one talks about
Fast-growing companies share a blind spot: their legal structure lags behind the rest of the business. The client won’t wait, the supplier starts on Monday, the partner joins on a verbal agreement because there’s trust and “we’ll formalise it later.”
Legal problems are silent. They don’t trigger alarms. They simply accumulate risk until the day something escalates — and by then, the room to manoeuvre is already limited.
Prevention costs a fraction of what reaction costs: in money, in time and in reputation.
What exactly is a Lawyer in House?
It’s not a salaried lawyer or an internal overhead cost. It’s a middle ground: a specialised external legal team that works continuously with your company, with real knowledge of your business and available to support every decision.
NOT
The lawyer you only call when the claim or crisis arrives — the external firm that ends up reviewing contracts after they’ve been signed, acting as a third party who has to understand your business from scratch every time a problem comes up.
IS
The legal partner who knows your company inside out, works side by side with your team and accompanies you day to day to protect every decision before it becomes a real risk — a model built on constant availability, continuity and timely intervention.
Three ways to cover your legal area
The equation isn’t just financial — it’s strategic. But the numbers matter too.
Reactive Model
On-call lawyer
You call when there’s a problem and pay crisis rates. The cost already factors in urgency and a lack of context about your business.
Resolving a dispute over a poorly drafted
15.000 – 80.000 €
Internal Model
In-house lawyer
It makes sense at a certain scale. But a single profile rarely covers corporate, employment, compliance and shareholder agreements at the same time.
Junior-to-mid profile, annual
60.000 – 80.000 €
Augé Model
Boutique Lawyer in House
Covers 90% of the recurring legal needs of a mid-sized company, with real specialisation in each area and day-to-day availability.
Structurally more cost-efficient
Tailored to your volume
Five blocks of continuous work
This isn’t about generating paperwork for the sake of it. It’s about ensuring every business relationship and every business decision has a solid legal foundation before something goes wrong.
Active contract management
Without exit or termination clauses, the supplier operates under their rules.
Which rarely align with yours.
Employment documentation
Contracts tailored to each profile (employee, freelancer, contractor), non-compete clauses for key roles, offboarding protocols.
The team relationship is where the most avoidable mistakes accumulate.
Corporate governance
Updated shareholder agreement, arrangements with new investors, valuation and exit protocols, board minutes.
The rules of the game must be written before the match begins — not during.
Ongoing compliance
Up-to-date privacy policy and website terms, internal data protection protocol, sector-specific regulatory adaptation.
Every visit to your website is an active legal exposure. Is it covered
Immediate legal response
When a claim, a lawyer’s letter or an inspection arrives, someone responds from the very first moment with all documentation already in order.
No time wasted getting up to speed on your business: the response is ready because the structure was built together with the company.
The documentation your company should have covered
Go through this list honestly. Check off what you’ve already sorted.
The first 90 days
Weeks 1–2
Diagnosis
Nothing is drafted yet. We audit: contracts, employment documentation, digital policies, shareholder agreements and pending claims. The result is an ordered risk map.
Days 15–45
Construction
The highest-exposure contracts, documentation for critical profiles and digital policies. Every document adapted to your real operations and explained in terms you can actually use.
From month 2
Integration
Someone is available for day-to-day matters. A new contract arrives and it’s reviewed before signing. The Lawyer in House stops being an external service and operates as a genuine internal capability.
It's not for every company
The model makes sense from a certain level of activity and complexity. The Andorran regulatory environment is more demanding today than it was five years ago: a company whose documentation was “in order” in 2019 may be out of compliance with current regulations without even knowing it.
- Business groups and holdings ·
- Family businesses with active structures
- Startups in scale-up phase
- Operations or clients outside Andorra
Frequently asked questions
About the Lawyer in House in Andorra
An external lawyer acts on a one-off basis once a problem already exists. A Lawyer in House works continuously, knows the company in depth and acts preventively — before the problem exists.
Yes. The boutique model is designed precisely for companies that don’t have the volume for an internal legal department, but have outgrown the stage where an on-call lawyer is enough.
The cost is significantly lower than an in-house lawyer (60,000–80,000 €/year) and more predictable than the hourly model. The exact cost depends on your company’s volume and complexity. You can request a diagnosis to receive a tailored proposal.
The initial diagnosis and build phase takes between 45 and 60 days. From the second month, the service runs in integrated mode.
The Lawyer in House service covers corporate legal matters. For tax planning, company valuation or international structures, Augé has specialist teams that work in coordination with the Lawyer in House.
No growing company should operate without an active legal structure
At Augé we don’t work like the firm you call when something breaks. We work as a continuous legal partner that builds the structure so nothing breaks. The problem doesn’t go away on its own — it just gets more expensive.
