Affords small and
mid-sized companies on a budget access to legal advice without large retainer
of hourly billings
New Orleans, LA (August
2018). The New Orleans Law Firm of Wallace Meyaski, LLC has announced that they are offering designated
General Counsel legal services for an agreed-upon "fixed
fee" for small and mid-sized companies. Given the increasing legal and regulatory complexity of today’s
business environment, many companies are faced with the choice of either
committing more and more resources to pay escalating outside counsel fees, or
of taking on additional headcount and the associated costs and expenses to
build an in-house legal and/or human resource team.
Explains attorney K. Todd Wallace: “We set out
to find a way to encourage our clients to contact us more regularly, to involve
us before an issue becomes a problem, and to depend upon our extensive
experience in advising our corporate clients. What we offer is a third
and, hopefully, more appealing option: a cost-effective way to retain the
services of experienced corporate attorneys on a fixed-fee basis to guide and
advise a corporate client each step of the way.”
With the costs of legal fees soaring to
all-time highs, the law firm understands that businesses are too often
reluctant to call upon outside counsel for fear of uncertain and excessive
legal bills. Of course, when businesses fail to address important legal, HR,
and corporate issues on the front-end, the legal costs associated with cleaning
up the mess can easily exceed five to six times the cost had the client simply
brought a lawyer in early on.
The team at Wallace Meyaski offer this unique
approach whereby the client pays an agreed-upon fixed monthly fee to serve as
the client’s outsourced General Counsel. At the end of the day, this approach
encourages businesses to use and rely on the firm as the “inside” counsel on a
regular basis while, at the same time, providing the client with a fixed cost
that that it can properly budget without having to worry about surprising and
unexpected legal costs.
K Todd Wallace adds, “we have
developed a unique approach to helping small to medium size businesses who
cannot afford to hire an in-house lawyer. We offer to serve as a
client’s General Counsel for a fixed-fee (monthly fee) based upon a defined
bucket of services.” He went on to add “that in todays environment small to
medium size business are the ones that are hurt the most impacted by the
increasing legal and regulatory
complexity of today’s business environment, because they are not properly represented. We hope this offers a solution for that
problem.”
Wallace Meyaski, LLC offers a wide array of general counsel outsourced services, including the
following areas:
Human Resources and
Employment Services
Wallace Meyaski, LLC brings over twenty years
of broad experience in the area of labor and employment law and human
resources. As a result, they can provide you with day-to-day advice on
how to handle every aspect of employee hiring, promotion, and termination and
to implement policies and procedures to protect clients from unnecessary and
costly litigation.
Commercial Contract
Preparation and Review
As part of our monthly
fee, the firm can draft new commercial contracts and review and revise any
existing commercial agreements, including purchase and sale agreements, master
service agreements, terms and conditions, commercial contracts, non-disclosure
agreements, confidentiality agreements, employment-related contracts, consulting
agreements, and property leases.
Corporate Succession
and Corporate Governance
Wallace Meyaski, LLC recommend that companies
regardless of size and scope take a good hard look at long-term business
succession planning. In the simplest terms, succession planning is a
process whereby an organization ensures that employees at all levels are
recruited, developed, and maintained to fill each key role within the company.
Succession planning also anticipates and addresses issues that inevitably arise
with any change in management and/or ownership to ensure a smooth transition
and long-term success for the company. Through a proper succession planning
process, businesses recruit superior employees, develop their knowledge,
skills, and abilities, and prepare them for advancement or promotion into ever
more challenging roles.
For
additional information:
Wallace
Meyaski, LLC
5109
Canal Blvd., Suite 102
New
Orleans, LA 70124
(504)
644-2011
Mr. Kenneth Todd Wallace is an attorney and
founding partner of the law firm Wallace Meyaski LLC. He has nearly 20 years of
experience in the legal and business professions with established excellence in
trial advocacy, negotiation, strategic and initiative planning, employment law
compliance, government relations, mergers and acquisitions, and team building.
*** K. Todd Wallace is an attorney at Wallace Meyaski in New Orleans. He has nearly 20 years of experience in the legal and business professions with established excellence in trial advocacy, negotiation, strategic and initiative planning, government relations, mergers and acquisitions, and team building. See http://www.walmey.com/our-attorneys/k-todd-wallace/
