Your Trusted General Counsel

Precise business agreements and informative corporate consultations.

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Your Business Counselors

Providing nationwide general counsel services, never compromising on quality.

Rapid Response

The Firm acts as outside general counsel for a number of its clients. We help our clients navigate almost every type of legal issue and how they might impact our clients’ businesses and their short-term and long-term business goals.

Competitive Pricing

We are quite often asked to act as outside general counsel to our clients. They appreciate the ability to call or meet as needed without incurring incessant billings. Our general counsel services are second-to-none and rival those which many believe can only be found from far larger firms all at a much more modest cost.

Proactive Representation

As your outside general counsel, we take a proactive approach to your business to ensure you avoid potential problems and liabilities before they manifest.

For general business matters and consultations, our attorneys serve as outside general counsel for startup, emerging growth and middle market companies across the country. Our clients rely on us for sound and strategic legal advice spanning their business agreements and contracts, joint ventures and strategic alliances, and negotiation and preparation of contracts that govern a wide variety of business relationships. If you need an agreement for your business reduced to writing, our Firm will prepare and negotiate comprehensive agreements to tackle a broad variety of business opportunities and challenges.

Our attorneys are agile in servicing our portfolio of clients by:

  • Negotiating and preparing employment-related documents, including employment agreements, consulting agreements, stock option plans and awards, and other equity incentive or "phantom" equity plans.
  • Drafting manufacturing and distribution agreements across industries to ensure the duties, obligations and rights of all parties are clear and enforceable.
  • Preparing licensing agreements and the protection of various types of intellectual property, including the negotiation and preparation of clinical trial research agreements, non-disclosure and invention assignment agreements (“work-for-hire”) agreements, confidentiality agreements, and non-competition agreements.
  • Developing shareholder, partnership and limited liability company agreements to clarify rights and duties among business partners, whether active or passive, including agreements with complex distribution schemes; and
  • Negotiating and preparing contracts to govern a wide variety of business relationships, including those with customers and suppliers.

Legal representation shouldn’t break the bank. Our attorneys achieve the productivity and results of larger practices but with a personalized, respectful and approachable nature that large firms often lack. We are committed to providing top-quality work with pricing that makes business sense. We will find a services model that works for you, not the other way around.

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Testimonials

What Our Clients Are Saying.

“Steve has been my corporate attorney 20+ years. I have built two successful companies. Steve has expertly advised me through every phase of my business career; beginning with company formations, stock issuances & classifications, IP law, my ongoing need for general expert business advice, and the complex sale of one of my companies to a Fortune 50 company. One of the most reliable people I know, Steve has had an unwavering track record of outstanding professional service. He is the only attorney I trust for my every business need and I would never make a move without him. One of the best people I know, I am proud to call him a friend.”

Jennifer Durst
Serial entrepreneur in technology

“My name is David Kiger and I am the founder of Worldwide Express. We are a $1.8 billion transportation company with 100,000 plus customers in the US. I also have several private equity investments in a wide range of companies. I have used Block & McNeill extensively for matters large and small encompassing private equity transactions,employment agreements, partnership advice and tax issues. I have always found them to be incredibly professional and responsive. They're one of the few law firms I've used that truly understands law from the entrepreneur’s perspective. I can recommend them without hesitation and will continue to use them as long as I have business dealings.”

David Kiger
Founder, Worldwide express

“I’ve been with Block & McNeill for more than 12 years, both personally and in my businesses. During this time, they helped me sell three businesses, start another, and refinance a third. They are always responsive and helpful, and I recommend them wholeheartedly.”

Jim Von Ehr
serial entrepreneur and 2009 tech titan of the year (texas legends award)

“Chris McNeill has assisted me for many years with buying, selling and forming businesses and effectively resolving business disputes. He and his firm bring tremendous value to any entrepreneur-owned business.”

Brian Rathe
CEO and founder, data preservation solutions