Practice Areas

We are the lawyers business owners keep on speed-dial. From the day you choose between an LLC and an S-corp through your first investor and, eventually, your exit, we draft the documents that decide who controls the company, who gets paid, and what happens when partners disagree.

Most of this work is flat-fee, because formations and operating agreements should not be a billing surprise. When you outgrow a template, we'll tell you exactly which clauses are doing the heavy lifting — and which ones a court would ignore.

Commercial real estate is where a missed line in a title report becomes a six-figure problem. We run the due diligence that catches easements, use restrictions, and financing contingencies before you're committed — and we negotiate the leases that protect you for the next ten years, not just the next ten days.

Whether you're buying your first building, leasing retail space, or developing a parcel, we keep the transaction moving and the risk visible. You'll get a one-page plain-English summary at every stage, not a stack of redlines you can't read.

Litigation is expensive, slow, and unpredictable — so our first job is to get you a good result without it. We resolve contract breaches, partnership splits, and vendor disputes with leverage and a clear-eyed read of what a case is actually worth. Most of our disputes settle on terms our clients can live with.

When a matter does need to be filed, you'll have a real strategy and a capped budget, not an open meter. We tell you the realistic range of outcomes up front, in dollars, so you can decide like an owner instead of a gambler.

Washington employment law moves, and a handbook that was compliant two years ago may not be today. We draft handbooks, offer letters, and separation agreements that hold up here — including the non-compete rules that changed in 2024 and trip up out-of-state templates constantly.

We work best with growing teams that want to do right by their people and stay out of trouble. Bring us the hire, the policy, or the hard conversation before it becomes a claim, and we'll keep it that way.

For owners, an estate plan and a business succession plan are the same document looked at from two angles. We build wills, trusts, and powers of attorney that protect your family — and the buy-sell and succession terms that keep the company running if something happens to you.

It's quiet, unglamorous work that spares the people you love an expensive, public mess. We make the decisions feel manageable and the documents feel finished, with a flat fee and a clear checklist.