Outside counsel provides the diverse insights and experience needed to protect your business from threats and maximize opportunities. By working with seasoned legal professionals, your small business can stay on top of legal developments, minimize risks, and keep your focus on running your business.
Small businesses in Tennessee face unique legal challenges, from ever-changing regulations to complex contract negotiations. It’s important to draw from a wide range of legal experience in order to handle these legal matters. Outside counsel provides the diverse insights and experience needed to protect your business from threats and maximize opportunities. By working with seasoned legal professionals, your small business can stay on top of legal developments, minimize risks, and keep your focus on running your business.
At Arnold, Willis & Conway, we serve small, local, and family-owned businesses across the state, helping them with business transactions, contract drafting, litigation, and more. As outside counsel, we’re committed to strengthening Tennessee’s small business community and keeping resources within the state.
Keeping Up with Evolving Laws and Regulations
Running a small business requires constant adaptation, especially as laws and regulations evolve. Failing to stay ahead of these changes can leave your business vulnerable to legal challenges. That's where outside counsel becomes invaluable.
What legal changes actually impact you and your business? How do they help or hurt what you're doing? What changes need to be made to remain in compliance?
Relying on outside counsel in key moments of change allows you to focus on the important work you're doing every day while your legal counsel focuses on shifting legal dynamics. They can help ensure that necessary adjustments are made in real time, preventing costly mistakes. With outside counsel, you gain the confidence that your business is always aligned with the current legal environment, leaving you free to concentrate on what you do best.
Tedious But Critical Legal Tasks
The legal tasks that small businesses face can be overwhelming, but they are essential to long-term success. Many businesses, especially smaller ones, may consider hiring recent law graduates or building an in-house legal team. While that’s an option, it often lacks the depth and experience needed for the complex legal issues you’ll encounter. When working with outside general counsel, you gain access to seasoned professionals who are equipped to handle a wide variety of legal matters, including:
- Contract drafting, review, and dispute resolution
- Employment and labor law
- Regulatory and legal compliance
- Commercial real estate
- Government contracting
- Business and financial transactions
- Dispute resolution and litigation
By relying on experienced professionals to manage these tasks, you reduce the risk of legal exposure that could harm or even destroy your business. Rather than risking costly mistakes, allow outside counsel to provide the thorough, professional legal services you need.
When Should You Rely on Outside General Counsel?
Small businesses often have limited resources, so they often have to rely exclusively on outside counsel for legal services rather than building an internal legal team or even having an attorney on retainer. So, whenever you face legal hurdles, you need to seek legal counsel rather than hoping it goes away or that non-legal professionals can solve these problems. You might want to save money by cutting corners, but doing so is likely to be more expensive in the long run.
An experienced outside counsel should be able to work directly with you and your team to better understand your circumstances, needs, and best possible solutions. If you are seeking outside general counsel for legal matters impacting your Tennessee small business, contact the experienced team at Arnold, Willis & Conway today. We are Dyersburg's oldest law firm and bring unmatched experience to the people and businesses of our state.