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In more than 30 years of mediating cases – both as a party and as a mediator – I’ve noticed that successful mediation participants tend to share a few common traits.

Bringing on your first employee is one of the most significant legal moments in the life of a small Alabama business. It is also one of the most commonly mishandled.

The question of whether someone is an independent contractor or an employee is one of the most consequential legal decisions a Gulf Coast business owner makes, and it is often made without anyone recognizing…

Terminating an employee is one of the highest‑risk moments in employment law. Alabama is an at‑will state, which means an employer can end the employment relationship at any time, for any reason that is not…

Alabama’s new Personal Data Protection Act changes the privacy-policy question for many Gulf Coast businesses. Before the law passed, whether you needed a privacy policy on your website depended mostly on…

Most outside general counsel services are staffed by lawyers who stopped litigating years ago. They review contracts, advise on compliance, and handle the day-to-day legal questions that growing businesses…

Mobile, Alabama – Outside Chief Legal LLC (“OCL”) has been selected by the readers and editors of Guide to Alabama as a 2026 Best of Alabama Award recipient, earning top honors in the Full-Service Law Firm…

Running a business along the Gulf Coast without an LLC is not automatically a problem. But depending on what your business does, who you work with, and what you own personally, it can be.

Two lawyers can review the same contract and see completely different things. The contract itself does not change. The clauses are identical. The terms are the same.

A handshake still means something along the Gulf Coast. But when a business relationship goes sideways, the handshake disappears and the contract is all that is left.