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The lawyer who drafts your contract and the lawyer who would argue it in front of a judge are often not the same person.

A full-time in-house general counsel runs, at a minimum, $250,000 to $350,000 per year in base salary for someone with meaningful experience, and that number depends on company size, industry, and geography.

A lot of lawyers can tell you what the law says. Fewer have stood in front of a judge and argued it. That difference can sound abstract until you need it. Then it becomes the only thing that matters.

The legal setup that worked fine when a business had one employee and one client rarely still fits once that business has ten employees, six-figure contracts, and name recognition in the Gulf Coast market.

Every Alabama business owner with an LLC eventually asks the same question: should I be taxed as an S‑Corp instead?

Most Gulf Coast business owners have thought about what happens to their business when they retire. Far fewer have thought about what happens if they die before that conversation ever takes place.

At some point, every business owner thinks about what happens at the end. Not the end of the business itself, but the end of their role in running it.

Getting served with a lawsuit is one of the worst moments in a business owner’s year. The process server shows up. Someone sends a certified letter. Your phone rings with news you were not expecting.

Most business owners plan for growth. They plan for slow seasons, hiring decisions, and cash flow. Almost none of them plan for the month they cannot show up.

There are two ways to work with a lawyer. The first is the traditional model: something goes wrong, or a specific project comes up, you call a lawyer, you pay by the hour, the project ends, and the…