Exceptional results.
Every matter gets senior attention and thorough preparation, whether it is a demand letter, a negotiated agreement, or a decision for the board.
Disputes · Contracts & Technology · Counsel · Legal Engineering
Business law, applied.
Legal work should not run on a meter. Applied Legal is a business law firm that uses AI in everything we do: exceptional results on your disputes, contracts, and day-to-day counsel, with the savings passed on to you. Most matters are a flat fee you know before we start.
And when the same legal problem keeps coming back, we do not just answer it again. We engineer the system that handles it.
Legal Engineering
Your legal work has a pattern. We turn it into a system.
The same contract. The same approval. The same question, asked again. If you have a legal team, we build the systems that take that work off their desk. If you do not have one but sure could use one, we build your rules into the tools your people already use, with a law firm behind it. Designed and built by a former General Counsel who is also a software engineer.
Custom AI plugins
Your playbook, inside the AI assistant your people already use. They ask. It answers the way you would.
Legal pipelines
Intake to signature as one defined flow. Nothing sits in an inbox wondering whose turn it is.
Custom software
Clause libraries, renewal trackers, and dashboards built around how your company actually works.
Integrations
The legal step lives where the deal lives: Slack, Teams, your CRM, your documents.
Practice areas
A business law firm, start to finish.
Disputes, contracts and technology, and the ongoing counsel around them, for companies in Texas and on federal matters nationwide.
01 · 4 practices
Disputes
Breach of contract, unpaid invoices, and partner and ownership disputes, from the first demand through resolution. When a matter goes to court, we bring in and manage litigation counsel and stay on as your lead.
- Business DisputesCommercial disputes for companies on either side, from the first demand to resolution.Learn more
- Breach of ContractWhen the other side did not perform, or says you did not. Claims pursued and defended.Learn more
- Invoice & Payment DisputesUnpaid invoices, disputed charges, and chargebacks between businesses.Learn more
- Partner & Ownership DisputesLLC member, partner, and co-owner disputes: deadlock, buyouts, and exits.Learn more
02 · 4 practices
Contracts & Technology
Commercial, technology, and SaaS agreements negotiated and drafted; cybersecurity and data privacy obligations handled; and contract systems for teams with recurring volume.
- Commercial ContractsNDAs, MSAs, vendor, supply, distribution, and partnership agreements, negotiated and drafted.Learn more
- Technology & SaaS AgreementsSaaS, licensing, MSAs, DPAs, and channel agreements, for vendors and for buyers.Learn more
- Cybersecurity & Data PrivacyIncident and breach response, notification questions, and the privacy and security terms in your contracts.Learn more
- Contract SystemsFor recurring volume: your playbook, clause library, intake, and routing, built into the tools you already use.Learn more
03 · 2 practices
Counsel
Ongoing outside general counsel, and the entities and governance a company is built on.
Why clients choose us
Legal work on flat fees.
Exceptional savings, passed on.
We use AI in everything we do. That lets us do the work faster and at lower cost, and we pass those savings on to you rather than keeping them.
A fee you know first.
Most matters are handled on a flat or fixed fee, agreed in writing before work starts. If the scope changes, we tell you first.
Counsel that has run the business side.
The firm is led by a former General Counsel at multiple technology companies who has also founded and sold a company. Advice comes with the business in mind.
Fees
Know the fee before the work starts.
Most matters are handled on a flat or fixed fee, agreed in writing before work starts. Disputes that cannot be scoped up front get a written fee arrangement after an initial assessment.
How fees workFounder · EJ Archuleta
Led by a lawyer who has sat on the business side.
EJ Archuleta founded Applied Legal after serving as General Counsel at technology companies and building and selling a company of his own. He knows what a dispute costs a business while it lasts, and what a contract is supposed to get done.
- Former General Counsel at multiple technology companies
- Software engineer
- Founder of a company that was acquired
Responsible attorney: EJ Archuleta, Austin, Texas. Applied Legal is a trade name of Archuleta Partners PLLC.
Next step
Tell us what is happening. Talk to a lawyer.
A dispute, an unpaid invoice, a contract, or a question that needs counsel. The next step is a short call, and the fee is agreed in writing before work starts. If a deadline is days away, call.