Practical legal support and business advice for founders facing contracts, growth decisions, and the messy work of building a company. I bring a Georgia law license and the perspective of having built and operated a multi-location business myself.
Support can be scoped around recurring legal needs, a defined business initiative, or a combination of both.
Ongoing, clearly scoped legal help for a growing company that is not ready to hire full-time counsel.
Hands-on help thinking through a real decision and turning it into a clear next step.
Start with a process that is slow, repetitive, or prone to dropped handoffs; decide whether automation is worth testing.
Strategy and workflow services are not legal services. They are provided under a separate agreement, and the protections of an attorney-client relationship do not apply to them.
A prioritized issue list, plain-English explanation of important terms, proposed edits or negotiation points, and a clear call on what needs specialist review.
A short options memo that lays out likely costs, upside, risks, unanswered questions, and the next decision or test.
A current-process map, a narrowly scoped test, named human reviewers, exception handling, and measures for deciding whether to continue.
Legal training helps me spot issues. Building Highland Yoga taught me what it takes to carry a decision through.
I earned my J.D. at Emory Law, edited the Emory Law Journal, served as a federal judicial clerk, and practiced commercial litigation. In 2015, I founded Highland Yoga and grew it from one Atlanta studio into a multi-location business across Georgia and Tennessee.
That meant making the same kinds of decisions many growing businesses face: evaluating locations and leases, setting membership prices, choosing partners and vendors, hiring, and building the systems needed to keep a company moving. I know what it is like to read an agreement and then live with the operational consequences of signing it.
I also created and sold Training Collective, a consumer fitness marketplace. Today, I provide fractional in-house counsel support to a startup and am developing focused legal, business-advisory, and workflow services for growing companies.
A workflow project begins with one real task: where the request starts, who touches it, what information is needed, where it gets stuck, and what a good result looks like. Then we can decide whether an existing tool can help.
For example, a pilot might sort incoming requests into categories, prepare a first draft for a person to review, or pull specified fields from a document. The goal is a small test with clear boundaries—not an agent making consequential decisions on its own.
The deliverable is a process map and pilot brief: scope, tools to evaluate, human checkpoints, exception handling, success measures, and what should happen if the system gets it wrong. Engineering or production integration would be separately scoped with a technical partner.
Engagements can be ongoing legal support, a defined strategy project, or a workflow assessment. Scope, availability, deliverables, and fees are agreed up front.
Start with the company, the issue, and what a useful outcome would look like. Please avoid sending confidential details before an engagement is established.
For legal work, conflicts and authorized scope are confirmed before a written engagement agreement. Strategy and workflow projects use a defined scope and deliverables.
Work proceeds against agreed priorities, with clear communication about open questions, decisions, and next steps.
I work with founders and growing teams that need practical legal support, help with a consequential business decision, or a thoughtful review of a recurring workflow. We can use an initial conversation to determine whether the need and scope are a fit.
I am admitted in Georgia. Legal services are limited to matters I am authorized and competent to handle. We confirm jurisdiction and scope before legal work begins; matters requiring specialized or additional counsel can be separately scoped or referred.
Work may be structured as ongoing monthly counsel or as a defined strategy or workflow project. Scope, availability, deliverables, timing, and fees are agreed in writing before work begins.
It can include process mapping, use-case selection, human-review and escalation design, and a plan for testing a limited pilot with appropriate tools. It is not custom model engineering or unattended legal decision-making; technical implementation beyond the agreed scope should involve a qualified technical partner.
No. An email or introductory conversation does not create an attorney-client relationship. Please do not send confidential information before conflicts are checked and a written engagement agreement is in place.
Share your contact details and a brief, general description of what you need. I’ll follow up to see whether a conversation makes sense.
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