Building your legal roadmap.
Advocating for entrepreneurs and builders on their legal journey.
A boutique legal practice with a vision to help scale company growth. Whether you’re just starting your business, working towards or closed a round of funding, or an established company; we’re here to help. Legal is at the cross-section of any business, and we want to make sure you’re thinking through a strategic roadmap to help marry legal with innovation.
Providing fractional legal services, support and strategic thinking; Ideate Legal will help with the insight you need to minimize risk. We bring extensive experience and professionalism to every matter brought forward, and customize our support to your individual needs and concerns. Let’s ideate together!
Myth: Law departments are cost centers.
Truth: By understanding your legal needs across your business roadmap, a fractional legal rep or in-house, can truly help you and the business navigate risk and prevent future litigation, negotiate contracts of all kinds and help spot check to fill the gaps needed to be compliant across the business. Legal is a cost mitigator!
Passion. Experience. Authenticity.
A builder at heart, Devika founded Ideate Legal with a simple vision: to help entrepreneurs, founders, GC's and others to ideate a legal roadmap in-house. Simply put. We do not know what we don’t know. Her extensive experience within the start-up landscape here in Silicon Beach (Los Angeles) has helped her gain the experience she needed to help others scale, and provided her with the insight she wanted to carry over to others in the same space whether it is in legal operations, strategic business development, or legal services.
'As the go-to attorney in-house, I have been able to understand the legal gaps, needs and desires cross-functionally. It’s been a great pleasure to work across various verticals, from fin-tech, drone-tech, e-commerce and sales, with rockstar GC’s, legal and business partners. Whether it is working with engineers, product, design, or C-Suite, my goal has always been to marry the legal with the business to allow for further growth and innovation, and lead with empathy. I am a business partner first and lawyer, second. I want to be able to provide my insight, knowledge, and toolkit to help further the legal needs in-house for GC's, founders and others. Many don't realize how important it is to have a legal and HR roadmap in place no matter what stage you’re in.'
Whether it's overflow legal support, helping with policy building, HR compliance, or other legal needs; Ideate Legal is ready to roll up sleeves and get the job done without the costs of a larger firm. Sometimes all you need is a little support to bridge the internal gaps you seek help in. Connect with us to learn more!
*Devika currently represents unaccompanied youth in both state and immigration courts on deportation defense proceedings. She is also a domestic violence counselor, and a mom of a very active 2 year old. She continues to keep a pulse on the state of corporate and technology start-ups, and happy to help when needed. Devika’s diverse perspectives and experience help shape her work ethic and insight to the work she is passionate about.
Devika Tandon, Esq.
Managing Partner
Fractional Legal Services
Commercial Contracts
We provide full business life cycle support - from NDAs to all kinds of service contracts. We review, negotiate, and give you the time to focus on other strategic goals while working through your commercial legal needs. Ideate Legal is able to equip you, your company, with the legal templates needed to help with the build out of a robust legal department with the knowledge you need to scale.
Strategy & Roadmapping
Business never stops. Understanding how legal fits in on your roadmap is critical to help understand how to minimize risk, amp up culture and create a framework for transparency that will be the cornerstone of your business. Ideate Legal strives to anticipate these changes and needs so you can focus more on creating what you love most without having to take more time to understand the legal side of the business.
Cross-Functional Legal
Ideate Legal takes pride in working alongside different business units. Whether it’s engineering, global-supply chain, brand and marketing, or general corporate matters; let us help cross-functionally to identify gaps, work through business needs and help minimize legal liability and risk.
Employment Empowerment - Navigating Agreements
Unlock the full potential of your employment relationships with negotiation services. Experience in guiding clients through the entire employment lifecycle, from skillfully negotiating comprehensive employment agreements and optimizing salary packages to navigating smooth exits through negotiations for exit agreements and severance packages noting that each negotiation aligns with the unique needs of our clients. Elevate your employment experience with strategic and personalized negotiation solutions.
Get in Touch
Are you a General Counsel that needs overflow help? A founder who wants to chat through potential legal roadmapping? An executive that requires more extensive legal support? Or, you just don’t know and want to inquire! Either way, get in touch and let’s ideate together.
