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Business and Corporate Counsel Across the Gulf Coast
The legal department your company would build, without adding anyone to payroll. Based in Mobile, we advise growing companies across the Gulf Coast and beyond.
Two-minute legal health snapshot
Where is risk accumulating quietly?
Answer six practical questions to identify the areas worth putting on your legal agenda next.
Have your core customer and vendor agreements been reviewed in the last 12 months?
Do your employment policies and contractor classifications reflect how the business operates today?
Are ownership rights, decision authority, and exit expectations clearly documented?
Can you show that the company owns its important brand and intellectual-property assets?
Are your regulatory, licensing, privacy, and data obligations reviewed on a regular schedule?
Does leadership review upcoming legal decisions before they become urgent?
Book a risk-free strategy session and ask for your Legal Health Audit.
This educational snapshot is not legal advice and does not create an attorney-client relationship.
Proactive Legal Strategies for Business Success
Outside General Counsel / Fractional Chief Legal Officer ›
Your on-call legal partner: contracts, leadership advice, risk, governance, and coordination of any outside counsel you already use.
Corporate Governance & Structure ›
Entity formation, bylaws and operating agreements, board advice, equity splits, restructurings, and the annual formalities that keep it all valid.
Regulatory Compliance & Risk Management ›
Compliance audits, legal-gap reviews, policies, licensing, internal investigations, and leadership training that catches risk before it becomes a claim.
Strategic Transactions / Mergers & Acquisitions ›
Buy-side and sell-side deals from pre-LOI through closing, plus joint ventures, financing, recapitalizations, and succession and exit planning.
Contracts & Commercial Agreements ›
Drafting, review, and negotiation across sales, service, supplier, licensing, and real-estate agreements, plus reusable templates built for your business.
Employment & Workforce Management ›
Offer, severance, and separation agreements, handbooks, HR policy, hiring and terminations, benefits, immigration, and restrictive covenants.
Executive Compensation & Incentives ›
Cash, equity, and performance packages; stock options, restricted stock, and phantom equity; Section 409A, securities, and tax compliance.
Intellectual Property ›
Trademark and copyright filing, maintenance, licensing, and enforcement, plus the brand strategy that turns ideas into business value.
Real Estate & Property ›
Leases, purchases and sales, build-to-suit and ground leases, title, zoning and environmental due diligence, disputes, and relocations.
Policy Development ›
Company policies, standard operating procedures, and codes of conduct (written so the people who have to follow them actually can).
Information Security & Data Governance ›
Privacy, cybersecurity, and data-retention programs aligned with GDPR, CCPA, and HIPAA, and kept current as the rules move.
Succession Planning ›
Buy-sell agreements, equity transfers, and management handover, so ownership changes hands on your terms rather than on whatever happens first.
Sale Preparation & Exit Readiness ›
Cleaning up the corporate record, the contracts, and the numbers before diligence, while there is still time to fix what a buyer would reprice.
Estate & Probate Planning ›
Wills, trusts, and probate administration for owners whose largest asset is the company, kept consistent with the company’s own governing documents.
Insurance & Risk Review ›
Reading the policies and contracts you already hold against the risks you actually run, before renewal rather than after a loss.
Nonprofit Formation & Governance ›
Formation, tax-exempt status, bylaws, board policy, and grant compliance for organizations that have to outlast their founders.
Not sure where your situation fits?
What Working With Us Looks Like
We start inside your business
We like to begin on site, walking the operation, meeting the team, reading what you have already signed.
You get an answer, not an invoice
Direct access to your attorney through a written message line, with no clock starting when you ask a question.
We think a quarter ahead
The point is not to handle problems faster. It is to have fewer of them, and to spot the next one early.
The Quarterly Business Health Checkup
Once a quarter, we put your business through a structured review, not a conversation about what went wrong, but a systematic look at twelve areas where risk tends to accumulate quietly. You leave with a prioritized list and someone to work through it.
Critical
Address immediately
High
Address within 30 days
Medium
Address within 90 days
Low
Address within 180 days
How Boardroom Work Is Billed
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Frequently Asked Questions
Do we need ongoing counsel, or just a lawyer when something comes up?
Most companies start out calling a lawyer only when something breaks, and it is usually the expensive way to do it. By the time a problem is worth an invoice, the decision that caused it was made months earlier. Ongoing counsel costs less than the disputes it prevents, and it means nobody has to explain your business from scratch every time.
Is Boardroom work covered by a Partner Plan?
Most of it, yes. Partner Plans cover strategy sessions, written access to your attorney, contract review, and your firm listed as counsel of record, with Cornerstone Counsel adding a monthly legal project and the Quarterly Business Health Checkup. Litigation, court appearances, and highly specialized matters are billed separately at discounted rates for Partner clients.
Do you replace our current attorney or in-house team?
Not necessarily. We frequently work alongside existing outside counsel and in-house departments, adding capacity, a specialty they do not have, or local counsel. Where a company already has one general counsel, we often supplement them rather than replace them (one attorney cannot be equally strong across employment, transactions, IP, and compliance).
How does a new relationship start?
Usually with a Risk-Free Strategy Session, then a month or two of working together before we recommend a plan. We would rather see what you actually need than sell you a tier that does not fit. We also like to spend time at your business early on, meeting the team and seeing how the company runs.
What size company is this for?
Everything from early-stage startups to mature enterprises. Proactive legal work usually starts paying for itself somewhere around $500,000 to $1 million in annual revenue, but we also work with companies below that by identifying what they need now and what can wait until the business can support it.
Can you work with our CPA and financial advisers?
Yes, and we prefer to. Entity structure, tax treatment, succession, and exit planning all sit at the intersection of legal and financial advice, and the answers are better when the advisers are talking to each other. We coordinate with CPAs, financial planners, tax strategists, and business brokers regularly.
What if we need something you do not handle?
We find the right attorney, make the introduction, and stay involved to manage the matter, rather than handing over a name and wishing you luck. Bankruptcy, criminal, and family law fall outside what we handle directly.
Let's Talk Before You Need To
Our proactive approach helps businesses reach stability by dealing with problems while they are still decisions. If you are weighing something now (a contract, a hire, an offer, a partner who has gone quiet) that is exactly the moment to call.