Outside General Counsel Services

BUSINESSES

Founders and Businesses

We provide outside general counsel services tailored to the unique needs of founders, business owners and creatives.   We understand the fast-paced nature of entrepreneurship and offer savvy, strategic legal guidance related to business operations.

We know that for founders, business is personal. With decades of investigations and litigation experience, we are a trusted partner when crisis hits. Whether an employment, contract, litigation or communication issue, we’ll leverage our legal and business experience to guide you toward the best decisions for your business.

Beyond legal services, our business consulting arm offers support for operations, branding and other aspects of business development. We love supporting our colleagues starting law firms with consulting services related to starting a law firm.

Sample Matters

  • Served as outside general counsel for creative founder.

  • Provided consulting advice to lawyer starting small law firm.

  • Represented organization and conducted historical investigation of a complaint alleging workplace discrimination.

  • Managed organizational response to allegation of employee misconduct, including conducting internal investigation.

  • Represented organization responding to allegation of sexual misconduct by an employee.

  • Conducted training on best practices for investigations and crisis response.

  • Managed external reporting hotline for employees of international organization.

Services

  • For business owners looking for help with a wide array of legal questions implicating their business, we are a trusted partner. From formation and employment issues to disputes, we’ll offer customized business-savvy guidance.

  • For lawyers starting solo or small firms, we offer serve as a consultant, advising on issues related to formation, pricing, business development, marketing, branding and more. We’ve been there, and love to help our colleagues start innovative law firms.

  • We know that the law is just one of the tools businesses need to leverage to be successful. As a complement to our outside GC work, we consult on other aspects of building, including operations and branding.

  • With decades of high-stakes, sensitive investigations experience, organizations call on The Paul Firm to conduct interviews, review evidence and make fact-finding determinations. We know how to ask difficult questions and discreetly gather evidence.

  • Organizations employ The Paul Firm to serve as a third-party reporting mechanism where employees can raise concerns about misconduct in the workplace.

  • For companies looking to strengthen their in-house teams with education around investigation, crisis response and people management when responding to allegations of misconduct, The Paul Firm serves as a trusted partner. We speak from significant investigation, litigation and crisis response experience to offer executive and staff training on best practices.

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If you feel like this applies to you, we’d love to assist you further.