Our goal is to be there for you on an on-going basis – not just to be called in when something goes seriously wrong.  In fact, the whole idea is to help you avoid legal potholes that can require considerably more organizational resources to resolve. 

As outsourced general counsel, we'll set a standing monthly telephone appointment to speak with the contact person or persons for your organization.  This is our opportunity to go over those things that are on your mind, and for us to ask questions that you might not have thought about. We can even attend your board meetings in person, or by speaker phone.

 

Of course, we're also here as needed between those standing appointments.  In fact, the whole point is that we're available and responsive to your organization's needs.  You'll pick up the phone and call us when we're needed.  Maybe you'll log in to this web site access your private and encrypted client area, where you can upload documents, download documents we've drafted or reviewed, write notes for us, and so on.

There can be any number of reasons why competent legal advice is often not sought early enough, when it can make a real difference in avoiding serious legal problems.  Here are some of them:

• Failure to recognize a legal issue when it presents itself

• A lack of full appreciation for the legal risks of serving on boards, serving in an employed capacity, or serving in a volunteer capacity.

• Believing that an attorney with little or no experience in the law of tax-exempt organizations is qualified to render competent legal advice regarding issues unique to exempt organizations.

• Being uncertain how to locate an attorney who can properly advise your organization.

• A belief that an attorney is unlikely to understand the culture of your organization, or a concern that the attorney lacks a sufficient history with your organization to properly advise it.

• A concern that at attorney does not understand the challenges of running a nonprofit organization such as yours.

• Legal fees.

The focus of our firm is to serve as your nonprofit organization's general legal counsel, but without actually being on your payroll, taking up office space on your premises, using your equipment, and so on.  In other words, by outsourcing, you'll have the advantages of an in-house attorney – such as easy access to counsel as it's needed and counsel that's familiar with your organization and its legal needs – without having to actually hire an attorney onto your staff.

In so doing, you will have access to us when you need us – for routine questions as they arise, and for those heart-thumping legal emergencies that sometimes happen to even the best-run organizations.  Best of all, because we typically work on a fixed monthly retainer, you won't be watching the clock every time we speak by phone or go over a document together.