Wednesday, August 15, 2018

K Todd Wallace, New Orleans Law Firm Wallace Meyaski, LLC offers unique "fixed fee" General Counsel services for small and mid-sized companies

New Orleans Law Firm Wallace Meyaski, LLC offers unique "fixed fee" General Counsel services for small and mid-sized companies

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/