Fractional General Counsel Services
Grabow Law partners with corporate leadership to provide fractional general counsel services that are needed to grow your company. We can provide these directly to company management or also assist an existing corporate legal team to fill in gaps so that our clients can avoid the cost and commitment involved in hiring a first or additional full-time legal counsel.
Fractional general counsel services include:
- Providing legal advice and reporting to management on a wide range of legal matters
- Handling legal disputes, including negotiating with adverse parties as well as managing outside litigation counsel, if any
- Product counseling, working closely with engineering, product and marketing teams
- Drafting, reviewing, and negotiating contracts and legal agreements
- Ensuring that policies and procedures comply with legal requirements and standards
- Establishing, implementing and training on regulatory compliance programs, contract management, open source software, privacy, and other legal matters
- Working closely with all departments to assess and minimize risk, while driving the business forward to achieve company goals
Fractional IP Services
Grabow Law partners with founders and leadership teams of startups and small and medium enterprises to create proper value from IP, provide strategic legal guidance and risk management, and create and implement policies and trainings for your business. As your company's fractional counsel, we handle legal issues and relationships with any outside counsel so that you can concentrate on running your business and can avoid the cost of hiring a full-time in-house IP counsel. With Grabow Law as your fractional counsel, you have the benefit of an experienced counsel that is plugged into your business and that can put fires out before they occur – and the certainty of a predictable monthly price under a subscription plan that fits your needs and budget.
We excel at counseling in clear, honest, and business-friendly terms, collaborating to achieve business goals. We do this by building trusted relationships and cross-functional influence among teams and organizations. We pride ourselves in maintaining calm and good humor under pressure while driving complex legal projects to completion.
In addition to fractional arrangements with startups and SMEs, we are available to work with entrepreneurs, corporations and law firms on strategic projects and transactions and advise on important legal issues.
IP services include:
- Initial assessment of existing IP protections, including patents, trademarks, copyrights, and trade secrets, and devising strategies aligned with business goals and objectives
- Patent preparation and prosecution
- Patentability searches and infringement, validity, and freedom-to-operate opinions
- Patent portfolio and due diligence analysis
- Trademark and copyright registration and management
- IP enforcement, including cease-and-desist letters, patent, trademark, and trade secret litigation, appeals, and post-grant proceedings
- Establishing and managing anti-counterfeiting and brand protection programs
- Trade secret audits, management and policy implementation
- Expert witnessing on IP matters
- Establishing, implementing, and training on IP policies and procedures
Due to the independent nature of our practice, conflicts with other clients are unlikely and we are able to better service our client's needs in a dedicated and personalized manner.