Counsel: escalations, redlines & playbook

Counsel works a focused queue instead of every document. The routine flows on its own; a lawyer's attention goes where it's actually needed.

Two lanes, not one

Escalations split by kind. Business terms — above-the-line deals and rates above the market threshold — are the producer's call and route to a quick message sign-off, not to a lawyer. Counsel gets the genuinely legal exceptions:

• Paper that must change — a redline a producer bumps up when the agreement itself needs edits.
• Talent or agent comments that turn into legal asks.
• Minors — patria potestad handling and guardian consent.
• Evidence-sensitive matters — anything where the record needs a lawyer's eye.

Redlines, not rubber stamps

An escalation opens with the agreement marked up against the playbook. Findings are color-coded — within the preferred position, near the fallback, or beyond the walk-away — so counsel reviews a position, not a blank page.

Your forms, your playbook

The firm brings its own forms. BALA is not a law firm and ships no master library: at onboarding you upload your contracts, BALA turns them into your templates, and derives your starting playbook from them — one clause, one position. Your templates, playbook, and learning loop are yours alone, never shared with another firm.

The form document behind each clause opens from the Playbook. A gap review reads your template and flags holes — consistency and structure it can state plainly, and legal questions it routes to your counsel — but it never writes the legal content. That stays your professional judgment.