Services
Most clients take the General Counsel engagement. A smaller number bring us in for one hard problem and nothing else.
Engagement one
I act as your part-time General Counsel. My team manages your entire commercial contracting function and handles the legal work a growing company generates every week.
We deploy a simple web-based request tool so anyone at your company can ask for contract help. We handle NDAs and every other commercial agreement. We put in a contract management system sized for your stage, not for a company ten times larger.
I attend leadership meetings and Board meetings. I act as the point of contact for legal questions across the company. Clients give us company email addresses, Slack accounts, and access to the tools their teams already use. We come onsite and we work remotely, in whatever mix each company wants.
Fee structure. A flat monthly fee covers the General Counsel function. Specific projects outside that scope run hourly. You know the number before the month starts.
Customer, reseller, partner, and supplier agreements. Drafting, negotiation, and signature.
Contract manufacturing, tooling, component supply, quality agreements, and logistics.
Offer letters, contractor classification, policies, terminations, and California specific obligations.
Ownership, invention assignment, licensing, trade secret hygiene, and filing strategy.
Export control, product compliance, and the agencies that govern your sector.
We select outside counsel, set the strategy, and control the budget.
Diligence, Board materials, and the legal workstream through a raise.
You keep specialist firms where you need them. We manage the scope and the invoices.
Engagement two
Some companies already have counsel and need one thing done well. We take those engagements on an hourly basis, and we take them selectively.
A supply agreement that decides the next three years. A technology license where the royalty structure matters more than the boilerplate. A manufacturing transfer to a new region. A contracting function that needs a rebuild before the next audit.
Also available
You do not need a General Counsel engagement to use the NDA service. Send documents as they arrive and pay per redline.
Tell me what you are building and where the legal work is piling up. If LWD is not the right answer, I will tell you that and point you somewhere better.