Start with what just landed.
Nobody wakes up shopping for a practice area. Something lands in your inbox, a redline or a term sheet or a security questionnaire, and it needs an owner by Thursday. Here's how what landed maps to the work.
A customer sent a 200-line security questionnaire.
Security & Compliance →
The MSA came back covered in redlines.
Commercial Contracts →
A term sheet landed. Diligence starts Monday.
Fundraising & Transactions →
The customer's DPA says no training on their data. Can we sign?
AI Governance →
We're hiring our first employees, in three states.
Employment & People →
An investor asked for the minute book.
Corporate & Governance →
Our privacy policy hasn't been read since we copied it.
Privacy & Data →
All of the above. Weekly.
Outside General Counsel →
Outside General Counsel
The standing engagement. One senior counsel who knows your whole picture and owns legal so you don't have to.
AI Governance
The provider-or-deployer question, the AI addendum, your model vendor's terms, and the claims sitting on your own homepage.
Privacy & Data
DPAs that match how your data actually moves, plus a privacy policy that describes the product you really ship.
Security & Compliance
The judgment layer above your compliance platform. What you can represent, what you should accept, what you sign.
Commercial Contracts
The enterprise packet, negotiated at deal speed, with playbooks your team can run when we're not in the room.
Corporate & Governance
Consents, minutes, equity records. The boring book that decides, years later, whether your grants were valid.
Employment & People
Hiring, classification, equity promises, departures. All papered when they happen, so nobody reconstructs them later.
Fundraising & Transactions
Ready for diligence before the term sheet arrives, judgment while it runs, cleanup that actually gets finished.
One enterprise deal touches contracts, privacy, security, and sometimes the board, all in the same week. That is the argument for a single general counsel rather than four separate outside firms: the answers have to agree with each other, and people who never talk to each other rarely agree.
IP & Technology: own what you build.
You want signed assignments from everyone who has ever touched the code, including founders, contractors, and the friend who helped out for a weekend before you incorporated. We handle licensing in both directions and write an open-source policy that matches what's actually in the repo. Trademark basics get done early, while they're still cheap. Patent strategy runs through outside patent counsel we bring in and manage.
Disputes & Risk: most of them end before they begin.
We write demand letters and we answer them. We build pre-litigation strategy while you still have options, which is usually earlier than people expect. Insurance coordination and regulator correspondence get handled with the temperature turned down. If it does become litigation, we bring in trial counsel, manage them, and stay your translator.
Legal Operations: we leave you a function, not a file.
Your team gets templates they can use without calling us, playbooks with fallbacks already approved, and a contract record that answers questions instead of raising them. When you hire in-house, all of it transfers to that person. That was always the point.
What we don't do
We're not litigators, patent prosecutors, or tax opinion writers, and we don't pretend otherwise. When you need one, we find the right outside counsel, manage the work, and translate what comes back into something you can act on. Either way, you keep one point of accountability instead of four.
Fifteen minutes. No pitch.
You talk, we diagnose. You leave with the two or three exposures worth addressing first, along with a straight answer on whether you need counsel now, including "not yet."