Early Stage

Common business practice, whether you’re a start-up or international enterprise, is the initial protection of your exoteric business matters through a confidentially agreement, also dubbed a non-disclosures agreement, NDA, MNDA (mutual non-disclosure agreement) or simply a confidentiality agreement. Such agreements are powerful tools which lay out the obligations and responsibility each signing party adopts regarding […]

We’ve been both entrepreneurs who hire lawyers, and lawyers who counsel startups. Because we’ve played on both sides of the court, we have a solid understanding of reasonable expectations. When we were entrepreneurs trying to run lean startups, we not only had difficulty explaining the value of good quality legal services to my team, but […]

The first time I worked as a lawyer, I represented companies where a $20,000 monthly retainer was the norm. That might seem like a steep fee, but I learned to think of it as the price to protect my clients’ interests at all costs – with a big team, big budget, and strong execution. I […]