Outside General Counsel - GeneralCounselWest serves as outside general counsel for emerging and fast-growing companies. We provide broad-based counsel that is specifically tailored to helping you grow your company. When you have us on your team, you have a partner who invests in understanding your business operations, industry and people. We will help guide you at all stages of your company’s life cycle from formation through growth, maturity and even exit. When your company reaches a size and scope that necessitates full-time legal support, we can help you plan the structure and obtain the resources that are optimal for your unique situation.
GC Leverage - GeneralCounselWest also serves companies who are further along the growth path and already have an inside General Counsel. We work closely with the GCs, their legal departments, and other senior executives to solve complex issues at the intersection of law and business. More is expected of GC's today than ever before - there is more pressure to push the envelope on legal risks, new and changing regulations, company growth expectations, an expanding GC role, and the constraint of addressing these issues all while being asked to cut legal spend. We work with you, the GC, to be successful in this turbulent and challenging time. We provide advice on some or all of the issues, including serving as a sounding board for you, and providing the capacity to get the work done in a cost effective manner.
Primary Care Attorney - Much like you would go to a physician who is a general practitioner to manage your overall physical health, we use our broad-based knowledge of legal issues and opportunities to serve as your primary resource for legal counsel. We practice preventative law to help our clients avoid expensive and time-consuming legal crises down the road. We also help spot and resolve problems when they do arise, and help identify and oversee the right outside law firm resources when a specialist or additional attorneys are needed.
Strategic Legal Review - Although many of our clients first hire us to deal with a specific matter, we recommend that new clients engage GeneralCounselWest to perform a Strategic Legal Review (SLR). Through an SLR, we can help you proactively identify, prioritize and address your most critical legal issues and opportunities to mitigate risk and create competitive advantage. more
M&A Leadership and Support - If you are in acquisition mode, GeneralCounselWest can help you through the process. One of our core competencies is leading companies through legal due diligence and the coordination of the legal aspects of transactions from start to finish. For smaller acquisitions, we offer an alternative when a larger law firm may lead to overkill. For larger transactions, we partner with you in managing outside counsel to get the best overall results.