Outside General Counsel

Practical Legal Support for Businesses at Every Stage

Serrano & Jeevaprakash LLP serves as outside general counsel to new, growing, established, and evolving businesses that need practical, responsive legal guidance without maintaining a full-time in-house legal department.

We work with startups, small businesses, midsized companies, and larger organizations on day-to-day legal needs, strategic projects, and broader operational initiatives. Whether a business is launching, expanding, restructuring, modernizing its operations, entering new relationships, or addressing emerging risks, we provide advice tailored to its goals, industry, workforce, and stage of growth.

We assist businesses with:

• Business formation, growth, restructuring, and operational planning

• Contract drafting, review, and negotiation

• Vendor, customer, consulting, licensing, and service agreements

• Employment counseling and workforce matters, including:

  • Hiring, onboarding, discipline, and termination decisions

  • Offer letters, employment agreements, independent-contractor agreements, confidentiality agreements, and separation agreements

  • Reasonable accommodations, the interactive process, and protected leave

  • Wage-and-hour compliance and worker classification

  • Employee handbooks, workplace policies, and compliance procedures

  • Internal complaints, workplace investigations, reductions in force, and executive departures

• Corporate governance and internal decision-making

• Risk management and regulatory compliance

• Demand letters, disputes, and pre-litigation strategy

• Confidentiality, trade secret, and intellectual-property agreements

• Project-specific legal advice and strategic transactions

• Coordination with accountants, brokers, insurers, consultants, and other professionals

Our goal is to understand how each client operates, identify legal and business risks early, and provide practical recommendations that support compliant employment practices, efficient operations, sound decision-making, and long-term growth.