Running a small business means making decisions that reach well beyond the next contract. AlignX Law provides outside counsel for owners who need a practical legal partner: someone who understands the operation, spots issues early, and helps turn decisions into clear agreements.
Small businesses across industries
Whatever your business does, its agreements, ownership decisions, and day-to-day commitments deserve careful attention. We work with small-business owners across industries, tailoring the scope to the operation, its stage of growth, and the issue at hand.
The legal questions do not stop after formation
A customer wants different payment terms. A supplier changes its agreement. You are bringing in a partner, negotiating a commercial lease, or deciding how to address a missed payment. These decisions connect. We help assess their legal and business implications together, rather than treating each document as an isolated task.
Outside counsel, with continuity
An ongoing relationship lets your attorney build familiarity with your priorities, contracts, ownership structure, and appetite for risk. Support can be tailored to recurring needs or a defined project. The scope, communication expectations, and fees are agreed before the engagement begins.
Contracts that work in the real world
Drafting, reviewing, and negotiating customer, vendor, service, purchasing, and independent-contractor agreements. We focus on what you are promising, when you get paid, who bears the risk, and how the relationship can end. Clear terms help owners understand their commitments before signing.
Commercial leases as a business decision
Your premises affect operating costs and flexibility. We review and negotiate commercial leases in the context of your business: permitted use, renewal options, operating expenses, maintenance obligations, assignment, exit provisions, and personal guarantees. The goal is to understand the commitment alongside the opportunities it creates.
Operating agreements and owner relationships
We help document how an LLC, partnership, or closely held company makes decisions. Topics include authority, ownership interests, contributions, distributions, deadlocks, transfers, and an owner’s departure. Addressing these questions before a disagreement creates a more useful foundation for working together.
Day-to-day decisions and developing disputes
Support also includes business formation and governance, confidentiality agreements, contract amendments, operational policies, and evaluating contract disputes or nonpayment. When a matter calls for a different discipline, we identify that need and discuss coordination with an appropriate professional.
What to bring to the first conversation
Tell us what your company does, who owns it, and what decision or deadline is ahead. Bring the relevant agreement, a short description of the problem, and the outcome you want. We can then discuss scope and a sensible next step.