My boutique-style law practice follows a concierge approach similar to concierge medicine that’s being used in the healthcare industry and is now emerging in the legal profession.
I offer a different approach to legal services by focusing on practice areas that commonly emerge in the context of helping certain types of clients—those who are pursuing a nimble, innovative 21st-century enterprise or those who have personal or organization vision outside of the arena of entrepreneurship or traditional business and.
I like to use a thematic approach to organize and explain my practice areas and representative client types. Each of these themes encompasses several commonly-used categories to describe legal practice areas.
Theme One: Media Law, Communication, First Amendment & Intellectual Property
Theme Two: Environmental Stewardship and Sustainable Agriculture
Theme Three: Contracts and Business Law for Professionals, Creatives, Innovative Small Businesses, and Entrepreneurs (for profit and social)
Theme four: Strategic Communication Consulting
Here’s a simple list of the main topical areas that fall within each theme of my practice. Each theme may include other areas and there’s clearly overlap between and across the themes. This is just a rough guide as of late June 2016.
Media Law, Communication, Intellectual Property
Social Media
Right of Publicity
Advertising Law & Regulation
1st Amendment: Freedom of Speech & Press
Trademark & Copyright Registrations & Licensing
Business Law
For Physicians and Other Professionals; Innovative Small Businesses and Entrepreneurs; Writers, Artists, Filmmakers, Designers and Other Creatives
Buy Sell Agreements and Transfer Restriction Agreements
General Business Contract Review and Drafting
Business Policy Drafting
Intellectual Property Protection & Licensing
Employment Agreements
For Physicians, Dentists, Veterinarians, Physical Therapists and Similar Professionals
Review and negotiation of contracts for new healthcare practitioners entering into employment with practice groups or other employers, as well as drafting contracts for the employing small practice group.
Environmental Stewardship & Sustainable Agriculture
Conservation Easements
Sustainable Agriculture Programs
Food & Farm Policy
“Green” Advertising
Legal Issues Related to the Business of Farming
Environmental Permitting and Regulatory Compliance
Strategic Communication Consulting
I also offer strategic communication consulting for issues management and digital content development for inbound marketing. The services in this category are in the nature of public relations, public issues management, and marketing, not political lobbying.
Strategy Development
Content Creation and Supervision of Content Creation (using my sub-contractors or employees/subcontractors of client).
Strategy Implementation
Rule 7.4 of the Alabama Rules of Professional Conduct allow attorneys in Alabama to indicate areas of practice in communications about the lawyer’s services.
No representation is made that the quality of services to be performed is greater than the quality of services performed by other lawyers.
No claim of specialization, special expertise is made by listing these practice areas and topics. I have no special legal certifications applicable to these areas of practice.
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