Looking for legal counsel?
Before you hire, compare with an outsourced legal service.
A salaried legal counsel is expensive and takes months to start. If your needs don't justify a full-time role, a subscription covers your contracts, disputes and procedures from this week, at a fixed price.
Salaried counsel or subscription: the comparison
- Monthly cost
- Salaried counsel :≈ CHF 9,000 to 11,000 (salary and employer contributions)
- Thrax Legal :CHF 290 or 690 excl. VAT, tailor-made from CHF 1,490
- Start
- Salaried counsel :1 to 3 months of recruiting, then the candidate's notice period
- Thrax Legal :A few days after you sign up
- Commitment
- Salaried counsel :Employment contract and notice period
- Thrax Legal :Cancel anytime
- Workload
- Salaried counsel :Full time, on your premises
- Thrax Legal :Set monthly volume (5 or 12 matters, plus quick questions), remote
- Absences
- Salaried counsel :Holidays, sick leave and training to plan for
- Thrax Legal :Turnaround times set in the terms and conditions
- Flexibility
- Salaried counsel :Hard to scale down if activity drops
- Thrax Legal :Switch plans or pause
Indicative order of magnitude: gross annual salary of CHF 95,000 to 115,000 for legal counsel in French-speaking Switzerland according to Swiss salary portals, plus 12 to 20% employer contributions (AHV/IV/EO/ALV, BVG, UVG, family allowances). Excluding workspace, recruiting and training.
Covered while you recruit
Already posted a job ad? The subscription handles your matters during recruitment, and you cancel it when your new counsel starts. Nothing waits.
When hiring is still the better choice
We'd rather be upfront: a subscription doesn't replace in-house counsel in every case.
- You need full-time legal counsel every day.
- The role requires being on site or managing a team.
- Your business involves frequent litigation or complex transactions: you will need a lawyer anyway.
Three ways to start
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