OUTSIDE GENERAL COUNSEL SERVICE MODEL
Only the largest businesses can really justify the expense of a qualified full-time lawyer, let alone one with deep experience across the full-range of issues facing businesses today. If your revenues are $100 million or more, you might be able to afford the $200,000 and up you might pay a qualified in-house lawyer. Or, you might be able to swallow the hourly rates of $1,000 and up for many of the big law firms who are equipped to handle such a broad array of issues on an hourly, case-by-case basis. But otherwise you need a lower cost solution. You want the benefits of a General Counsel who knows your business, is there for the long haul, is available 24 hours a day for questions large and small, and who doesn’t break your budget with hourly rates. The LAW OFFICES OF LLOYD C. CHATFIELD II can help you level the playing field, and give you the benefits of quality business law support at a fraction of what you would pay a big law firm or a full-time general counsel.
An outside general counsel relationship is designed to provide the benefits of a full-time general counsel at an affordable cost. This approach to meeting your company’s legal needs will be far more holistic than a typical law firm relationship, and will allow you and your team to evaluate your legal issues in a strategic, ongoing fashion.
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