Outside General Counsel
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, nonprofits, 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.
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.
Practical Legal Support for Businesses at Every Stage
We assist businesses with formation, growth, restructuring, operational planning, corporate governance, contracts, regulatory compliance, risk management, strategic transactions, and pre-litigation disputes. We also counsel employers on hiring, onboarding, discipline, termination, accommodations, protected leave, wage-and-hour compliance, worker classification, employee handbooks, workplace policies, internal investigations, reductions in force, and executive departures.
Our team drafts and negotiates employment, contractor, confidentiality, trade-secret, intellectual-property, vendor, customer, consulting, licensing, service, and separation agreements, while coordinating with accountants, brokers, insurers, consultants, and other professionals as needed.
Counsel That Grows With Your Business
Outside general counsel services may be provided on an hourly, flat-fee, project-based, or ongoing monthly-retainer basis, depending on the client’s needs, anticipated volume of work, and scope of the engagement.