{"id":4635,"date":"2016-02-08T19:43:59","date_gmt":"2016-02-08T19:43:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/startup.ceosatplay.com\/?page_id=4635"},"modified":"2017-05-15T12:37:47","modified_gmt":"2017-05-15T16:37:47","slug":"contract-lawyer","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.argentplacelaw.com\/contract-lawyer\/","title":{"rendered":"Contracts &#038; Relationship Management"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"post-bodycopy clearfix\">\n<h2>Contract Lawyer in Northern Virginia<\/h2>\n<h3>Argent Place makes sure you business relationships are well defined<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Contracts are the single most important document that can make or break a business. There are hundreds of relationships a business may be required to manage at one time: relationships with employees, independent contractors, vendors, customers, landlord, investors, and even banks and other financial institutions. Every one of these relationships is a contract that your business law firm, or general legal counsel, should draft or review to make sure it is in your best interest and fits with your company\u2019s overall objectives and operates within the given laws of your jurisdiction.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A good general legal counsel manages these relationships in a proactive way. In order to be proactive, your legal counsel will take the time to fully understand your business and provide valuable business counsel outside of just filling in blanks on standard templates. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Argent Place Law supports you and your relationships through contract negotiations by giving you a clearer picture of the relationship being proposed. In addition, Argent Place Law works directly with you to understand some of the most missed and most crucial section of a contract: the terms and termination section. <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Argent Place Law Solutions:\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Argent Place Law provides service and expertise in the critical areas of legal business counseling, including:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Legal Counsel\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Regular Strategic Planning sessions<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Support you\u00a0in negotiations with customers who want to change your basic customer contract<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Apprise you of risky and unfair terms<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Propose alternative language and negotiating points<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Review contracts you have been asked to sign and alert you to problems<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Managing business disputes, pre-litigation negotiations<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Buy-Sell agreement among owners<\/li>\n<li>Financing and commercial lease agreements<\/li>\n<li>Tax-free reorganizations for moving your company from one state to another<\/li>\n<li>Stock options and phantom stock<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Employment Agreements\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Letter offers of employment that preserve \u201cat will\u201d employment status<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Employment contracts with key employees, enforceable non-compete agreement<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Employment contracts for term with incentives for key employees<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Employee handbooks and company policy handbooks<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Deferred compensation plans<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Customer Relationship Management\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Contract templates for customers, and custom contracts when needed<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Draft customer contract templates that protect your interests and are enforceable<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Government Contracts\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Teaming agreements for preparing government contract proposals<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Reviewing government contracts, especially to protect intellectual property rights<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Expected Results:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Incentivized parties that yield better\u00a0performance<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Allocated risk to the parties who are best able to manage the risks and that\u00a0of misuse to the customer\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Knowledge of and management of risks within your business relationships<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Long term partnerships and healthy relationships\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Managed expectations from all relationships, especially those from your customers.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Minimized risk from the\u00a0IRS declaring an independent contract to be a de facto employee<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Offers to prospective employees made with the confidence that your interests are protected<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Protection of your intellectual property<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Confidence that your customer contracts are enforceable when one of your customers breaches it<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Knowledge &amp;\u00a0and confidence about the contracts you sign\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Contract Lawyer in Northern Virginia Argent Place makes sure you business relationships are well defined Contracts are the single most important document that can make or break a business. There are hundreds of relationships a business may be required to manage at one time: relationships with employees, independent contractors, vendors, customers, landlord, investors, and even&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.argentplacelaw.com\/contract-lawyer\/\" class=\"excerpt-read-more\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5350,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.argentplacelaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4635"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.argentplacelaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.argentplacelaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.argentplacelaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.argentplacelaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.argentplacelaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4635\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.argentplacelaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.argentplacelaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}