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Sound legal advice to help navigate the day-to-day requirements, challenges, and opportunities inherent in your business.
Flexible Legal Support with a Virtual General Counsels.
If you’re looking for legal advice and strategic support for your business in a cost manageable way, then our General Counsel as a Service option gives you access to an experienced senior lawyer who works directly with your business on a scheduled or as needed basis.
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What We Do
The VGC (Virtual General Counsel) Firm is an innovative law firm working for clients operating at the intersection of the built environment, technology and people. We work with large corporates in our focus sectors, delivering on our mission to unlock innovation. However, we know much innovation comes from smaller businesses and we're keen to help those businesses too! Through Conexus GC, our Virtual General Counsel service, the same innovative lawyers are available to UK small and medium sized businesses in these sectors at a predictable and affordable price. Here's some of what we offer through Conexus GC:
In-house attorneys have many obligations and new projects or obstacles that can overwhelm an already stretched legal department. Epstein Becker Green is available to supplement the capacity or experience of a company’s existing legal team, as well as serve as outside general counsel to businesses without in-house counsel capabilities.
We provide general counsel services to clients throughout the country. Many of these clients operate within highly regulated environments, such as health care, financial services, pharmaceuticals, and others. We offer customized options for general counsel support that best suit clients' needs and budgets.
Our team of attorneys brings a wealth of experience, having served as general counsel or in senior legal positions at Fortune 500 companies, health care systems, insurers, health care organizations, pharmaceutical companies, and global financial companies, among others. This "real world" experience, coupled with our industry know-how and the resources of our Health Care & Life Sciences; Employment, Labor & Workforce Management; and Litigation & Business Disputes practices, enables us to provide effective advice and counsel and, if necessary, defend companies that need additional legal support.
Our approach is not just reactive but proactive. We work closely with each client, gaining a deep understanding of its business model and objectives. We aim to provide the client with the best and most cost-effective solutions to its legal concerns while emphasizing a forward-looking approach that mitigates the client’s risks and eliminates issues that could lead to unnecessary problems or lawsuits.
Helping you navigate the legal challenges
We act as a virtual general counsel for a range of dynamic start-ups and small businesses ensuring that they have a legal partner to guide them as they grow and operate, without the overheads of a full-time resource.
Having worked as in-house lawyers in businesses ourselves, we know how to slot in from day one to deliver the kind of pragmatic, commercial legal advice small businesses need. We create great relationships with your stakeholders and ensure they see legal as a valuable investment that manages risk while moving business along.
We aim to be the best business partners we can for you and your business – senior lawyers who act as an extension of your team at a fraction of the cost.
Whatever you need in terms of virtual general counsel for your small business, our General Counsel as a Service solution can be designed to meet your needs and budget. It’s the ideal solution if you want to invest in legal without hiring permanent resource.
General counsel feel. Small business focus.
Answers that are driven by innovative, solid advice and over 19 years of experience. Whether you are looking to start or buy a business, are expanding an existing enterprise, or are facing challenges that come with running a business, having someone knowledgeable with you and your work is invaluable.
Practices Areas
Business Formation
Corporation? LLC? PLLC? LLP? PC? What should my business be?
At Tradewinds, PLLC, you will get the perspective and advice you need to choose the right form of doing business. Each has its advantages, but it should compliment your needs and how you do business. Many factors are considered, and when all is said and done, you will have a company ready for success. Lets discuss it.
Regulatory Compliance
Many industries answer to agencies that regulate their field. These agencies have the power to stop you doing business. Make sure you are in compliance with their rules, and that you are represented effectively before any branch of the agency, if necessary. Peter Glazer has represented businesses before agencies in the following areas:
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Interior Design
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Landscape Architecture
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Massage Therapy
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Personal Training
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Pest Control
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Professional Engineering
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Residential and Commercial Painting
Contracts & Leasing
If you are in business, you deal with contracts. In most instances, the obligations you are under and the relationships you have with clients, customers, vendors and others are governed by the law of contracts. Negotiating and drafting an agreement well is the best preventative measure to avoid problems. If a problem does arise, a well-drafted contract will put you in a position of power in the ensuing dispute. Pay attention to the details up front and you may save a great deal of time and money down the road.
Employment Law
All businesses deal with employment issues. Even if you are the only employee. Want advice on how to handle a growing workforce? Or, perhaps, reducing one? Need employment policies tailored to fit your business and its culture? Human resources is an important and complicated area, rife with contention and risk. Knowing how to protect your business and keep your employees at their most productive are at the heart of any successful enterprise.
Ownership Changes
Making a change in business ownership is a lengthy and complex process, even for a simple business sale. You may be retiring or selling your business for all sorts of reasons. The ownership change process includes some important tasks. Once the buyer has done due diligence, and you have agreed on the terms of sale and the date of final change or transfer, there is much to be done, and you don’t want to miss anything. That’s why you will need an attorney like Peter Glazer on your side. He can help with the legal documents and ensure that nothing is missed in the process.
Business Advising
Owning a business is more than just doing something everyday. It’s about determining your path in life. Rely on experience in deciding what path will get you where you want to be. The advice of an experienced business attorney can be invaluable in making the right informed decision. From crafting or revising your business plan to planning for the day you retire, the advice of your attorney should play an important role in helping you make a decision about what happens to you and your business.
YOUR LEGAL PARTNER
There is very little that is “small” about owning a small business.
The wins are huge, and the losses feel even more so. The sleepless nights - checking your phone and hoping it's not 5am and time to wake up without having slept - aren’t small. The weight on your shoulders isn’t small either, knowing that your clients, employees, and family are all depending on you.
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I get it. I’m the son of a small business owner and have represented small businesses my entire career. I've also worked, both as outside counsel and in-house, for very large companies with significant resources. I understand the challenges facing both.
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Here's what I do: I care. I bring passion for YOUR company to my representation of you. I know you don't want to pay for legal services - you'd rather reinvest that money into marketing, or bonuses for your employees, or one of the dozens of other great ideas you have waiting.
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My vision is to be a partner with you to minimize your legal spend, keep your customers and employees happy, and keep your business running smoothly. That's it.
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Learn more about my professional background and why you want me to be your outside general counsel or to partner with your existing legal team.
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Outsourced legal supportGet direct access to senior in-house lawyers who will work as part of your business and team.
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Subscription PackageOur legal support is based on a fixed amount of time per month on a retainer basis, providing you with guaranteed legal coverage and cost certainty.
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Fast ResponseAs part of the service, you’ll receive 24-hour response time and access to the wider team at Arbor Law for specialist legal expertise.
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Broad legal supportOur legal support isn’t limited. Through our cost-effective solution, we draft and negotiate contracts with customers and suppliers, advise on corporate and shareholder matters, company secretarial support, NDAs, employment advice, GDPR issues, share option schemes, regulatory and compliance support.
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Industry ExperienceOur experienced senior lawyers work with fast growing start-ups as well as businesses of all sizes across a range of sectors.
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Flexible and affordableBenefit from direct access to an experienced senior in-house lawyer with no long-term commitment. A Fractional General Counsel – at a fraction of the cost.
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