Business General Counsel Services: Annual Plans for Protecting & Growing Your Business.

 

Growing businesses of all size have day-to-day legal issues that need to be addressed. Whether they are able to protect against these issues on a timely and affordable basis is another story. Unfortunately, most businesses cannot afford to hire a full-time in-house attorney as general counsel. As a result, many critical issues are put off or eventually handed off to an outside law firm unfamiliar with the business and at high hourly rates. Obviously, this creates major problems for businesses that need on-going legal support. 

 

Our General Counsel Service plans address this problem by providing established and fast growing businesses with experienced business attorneys on a regular, on-going annual basis. This level of continued support ensures that you will have an attorney who will become part of your business advisory team with the experience to handle strategic issues such as employer compliance and risk management, large scale acquisitions and long term transition planning. 

 

Our General Counsel services are provided on an annual basis and are billed on a monthly, flat-fee basis. These plans provide business owners with a pricing structure intended to provide significant savings and cost predictability for your business. This is in contrast to companies getting stuck paying attorneys on an hourly basis every time a legal issue or question needs to be answered. And guess what, when you pay attorneys the time it takes them to do something, you get what you pay for – hours.

 

The attorneys you'll work with under our General Counsel services are experienced business attorneys who have been in-house counsel to start-ups and established businesses, as well as having responsibility for representing companies as outside counsel in a range of matters. These matters and our General Counsel service plans include the following legal services: 

 

General Contract and Organizational Services 

• Entity formation and modification 

• Business agreement preparation and contract negotiation  

• Selecting and managing specialized legal service providers, including intellectual property, securities, immigration, bankruptcy and creditor proceedings, and white collar criminal defense in response to governmental investigations 

• Creation and participation of business advisory team   

 

Litigation & Dispute Resolution

• Collection proceedings

• Early dispute and case assessment

• Litigation strategy and management

• Selecting and managing specialized legal counsel

• Negotiating, analyzing and evaluating settlement offers

 

Employment Law & Compliance

• Employee hiring and terminations

• Responding to harassment and discrimination issues, as well as conducting internal investigations concerning employee misconduct

• Drafting and implementing employee policy manuals and procedures

• Management and employee training programs

• Drafting employment, executive, and independent contractor agreements

• Drafting and negotiating non-disclosure, confidentiality and non-compete agreements

 

Real Estate Services

• Drafting and managing office, retail and industrial leases

• Managing real estate property acquisitions and sales

• Managing landlord/tenant relationships

 

Commercial Transactions

• Review and preparation of licensing arrangements 

• Debt restructuring and financing agreements

• Mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures and strategic alliances

• E-commerce agreements and Internet legal compliance issues

• Customer, supplier, and other "B2B" agreements

 

Our legal team will sit down with you to discuss the current state of your business in order to scope out the right plan and legal services for your company. Once you become a subscriber, we will schedule a meeting with you and your team to identify the immediate priorities and milestones to be focused on for the year. 

 

For more information about setting up a meeting to discuss how our General Counsel Services can benefit your business, contact Insyght Legal at 248-785-3400 or email Jason Shinn or John Carter.