Flat-fee pricing for New Mexico contractors. You know what it costs before we start. No hourly billing, no estimates that balloon, no surprises on the invoice.
Need one thing done right? Pick what you need. Every a la carte service is a flat fee with a defined deliverable and turnaround. First-time clients purchasing any contract review, redline, or drafting service should start with a Contractor Profile so I can learn your business before I touch your contracts.
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Contractor Profile
A structured intake where I learn your trade, your typical project structure, your GC and owner relationships, your cash flow cycle, and the operational realities that shape how your contracts actually function in the field. This is what separates competent contract work from commodity review. Includes a 45-minute call and a written profile I keep on file for all future work. Required for first-time clients; included in The Jobsite Plan and The Full Build.
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$395 | ||||||||||
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Contract Review & Risk Memo
Single third-party agreement, up to 30 pages. Written risk memo identifying problematic clauses, missing protections, and recommended changes–informed by your Contractor Profile. Delivered within 5 business days. Fee is based on total contract value–higher-value contracts carry more complex indemnification, insurance, bonding, and liquidated damages provisions that require deeper analysis.
Contracts over $10M typically involve multi-party indemnification structures, complex insurance programs, and performance specifications that require a more detailed inquiry before quoting. Schedule a call and I'll scope it for you.
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From $750 | ||||||||||
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Contract Redline & Negotiation Markup
Single agreement with redlined revisions you can hand directly to the other party. Includes a brief strategy memo explaining each change and why it matters.
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$995 | ||||||||||
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Custom Agreement Drafting
One custom-drafted document–subcontract, PO terms, or similar–built from scratch for your trade and your projects, NM-specific.
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$1,495 | ||||||||||
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Lien Waiver Template Set
Four NM-compliant lien waiver templates: conditional and unconditional, progress and final. Ready to use on every project.
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$495 | ||||||||||
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Change Order Form & Procedures
Review and rewrite of your change order form, including written notice and pricing procedures that hold up when disputed.
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$495 | ||||||||||
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Insurance Requirements Exhibit
Tailored insurance exhibit for your subcontracts specifying coverage types, limits, and additional insured requirements for your trade.
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$495 | ||||||||||
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Strategy Consultation
30-minute call on any contract or construction law question. Standalone–no other service required.
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$250 |
✓ Contractor Profile–structured business intake (included)
✓ Up to 12 contract reviews or redlines per year (any combination)
✓ NM-compliant lien waiver template set (first year)
✓ Annual contract health check with written risk report
✓ Up to 3 hours of contract-related consultation per year
✓ Legislative and regulatory change alerts for your trade
✓ Priority scheduling–same-week turnaround on reviews
✓ 15% discount on any custom drafting or a la carte services
✓ Contractor Profile–structured business intake (included)
✓ Everything in The Jobsite Plan for Year 1
✓ Custom master subcontract agreement, NM-specific
✓ Rewritten change order form and procedures
✓ NM-compliant lien waiver templates (conditional & unconditional, progress & final)
✓ Insurance requirements exhibit tailored to your trade
✓ Standard purchase order terms
✓ 60-minute strategy walkthrough of every document
✓ Delivered within 15 business days
After Year 1, you can renew The Jobsite Plan at $2,995/year to keep your contracts current as your business grows and NM law evolves. No obligation–but most Full Build clients renew because the ongoing reviews pay for themselves the first time a problematic GC agreement lands on their desk.
Step 1: Free 15-minute call. We talk about your business, your contracts, and whether you actually need help. If you don't, I'll tell you. No charge, no obligation.
Step 2: Contractor Profile. If we're a good fit, I start by learning your business. Your trade, your typical projects, your GC relationships, how you handle changes in the field, how you get paid, where you've had problems before. This structured intake takes about 45 minutes and produces a written profile I keep on file. Every contract I review or draft for you is informed by this profile–not done in a vacuum by someone who doesn't know the difference between your trade and any other.
Step 3: Pick what you need. Most contractors start with a single Contract Review & Risk Memo, starting at $750 based on contract value. You send me the agreement you've been asked to sign, I review it through the lens of your specific business, and you get a written memo showing exactly where the risk is for a contractor in your position–not generic risk, your risk.
Step 4: Decide if you want ongoing coverage. If you're signing third-party agreements more than a couple times a year, The Jobsite Plan makes financial sense. If you need your whole contract suite rebuilt, The Full Build is the move. Both include the Contractor Profile at no additional cost.
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Schedule a free 15-minute call. I'll tell you whether your contracts actually need work–and if they don't, I'll tell you that too.
Schedule Your Free ConsultationMost construction attorneys charge $350 to $600 per hour and won't give you a total cost until the work is done. That's not how contractors run their businesses, and it's not how I run mine.
Hourly billing creates a perverse incentive: the longer the work takes, the more the attorney makes. It also creates uncertainty for you–you don't know the final cost until the bill arrives. Flat fees eliminate both problems. You make a business decision with complete information, just like you do with every other cost in your operation.
The national average for a flat-fee construction contract review on marketplace platforms is between $480 and $730. Those are commodity services–a lawyer who has never met you reads your contract cold, flags obvious issues, and moves on to the next one. They don't know your trade, your typical project structure, your payment cycle, or the operational realities that determine whether a contract clause is actually workable for your business. My base fee of $750 is comparable for smaller contracts, and the graduated scale for higher-value contracts reflects the genuinely greater complexity of those agreements–a $5M project has indemnification, insurance, and bonding provisions that a $200K job simply doesn't. Every review I do is informed by your Contractor Profile–a structured intake of your business that I complete before I ever open your contract. A pay-if-paid clause means something very different to an electrical sub running 90-day receivables on commercial TI work than it does to a concrete contractor doing residential foundations. I know which one you are before I start reading.
The Contractor Profile is a structured intake where I learn your business before I touch your contracts. We cover your trade and license classifications, your typical project types and sizes, how you work with GCs and owners, your payment and billing cycle, your change order process in the field, and any problems you've run into before–operationally, not just legally. The profile takes about 45 minutes, and I keep it on file for all future work. It's required for first-time a la carte clients and included at no additional cost in The Jobsite Plan and The Full Build. Without it, I'd be reviewing your contracts without understanding your business, and a contract review done in that vacuum isn't worth the paper it's printed on.
Then a single Contract Review & Risk Memo is the right choice (starting at $750 depending on contract value), plus the $395 Contractor Profile if you're a first-time client. No annual commitment required. You send me the agreement, I review it informed by your business profile, and you get a written memo within 5 business days. If you find yourself coming back for a second or third review, the Profile is already done and paid for, and we can talk about whether The Jobsite Plan makes more sense going forward.
The Jobsite Plan bundles up to 12 reviews or redlines per year with lien waiver templates, consultations, and priority scheduling. If you're signing third-party agreements more than 3–4 times a year, The Jobsite Plan costs less than buying individual reviews, and you get everything else included. Think of it as having a construction lawyer on call for less than the cost of a part-time laborer.
Yes. Although a $25M commercial retrofit and a $500K residential remodel get the same thoroughness, complexity tends to increase with dollar amount. I have developed a sliding scale that accounts for this. Contact the firm directly for any jobs in excess of $10M.
One review covers a single agreement of up to 30 pages. If you need both a review and a redline of the same agreement, that counts as one review and one redline (two of your twelve). Supplemental documents attached to the same agreement–exhibits, schedules, insurance requirements–are included as part of the same review if submitted together.
A la carte services: full payment at engagement. The Jobsite Plan: billed annually in advance. The Full Build: 50% at engagement, 50% on delivery (or pay in full at engagement for a 5% discount). All payments can be made by credit card, ACH, or check. A 3% surcharge applies to credit card payments.
Contract Review & Risk Memo: delivered within 5 business days. Contract Redline: delivered within 7 business days. Custom Agreement Drafting: delivered within 10 business days. The Full Build: delivered within 15 business days from receipt of your existing contracts. Jobsite Plan members receive same-week priority turnaround on reviews and redlines.
Attorney Advertising. The information on this page does not constitute legal advice. Past results do not guarantee future outcomes, as each case must be decided on its own merits. The responsible attorney is Matthew J. Bouillon Mascareñas, Albuquerque, NM. © 2026 Law Office of Matthew J. Bouillon Mascareñas LLC.