Agreed document review
Choose the records most relevant to the next decisions: for example, a customer agreement, a vendor contract, governing documents, or a commercial lease. The review covers the agreed materials and subjects.
Business Counsel
Ongoing legal counsel for Arizona business owners
Work directly with Alexander Ball on contracts, payment terms, and everyday business decisions. Start with a focused review, then choose project work or ongoing support.
Discuss ongoing business counselWho This Service Fits
Focused advice for owner-operated businesses
This service fits owners and managers who regularly sign customer or vendor agreements, face decisions with legal consequences, and need counsel without an internal legal department. Alexander works directly with businesses in Oro Valley, Marana, Tucson, and elsewhere in Arizona. The review starts with the business, its priorities, and the documents that matter to the next decision.
Common matters
- Contract drafting, review, and negotiation
- Commercial lease review and related questions
- Vendor, customer, and payment issues
- Policies, recurring legal questions, and outside general counsel support
- Practical assessment of legal and business risk
A concrete place to start
Business Legal Priorities Review
Turn a group of business questions into a short, usable plan. After conflicts and suitability review, Alexander and the owner agree on the documents, questions, scope, fee, and timing before the review begins.
An owner meeting
Discuss how the business operates, what the documents need to accomplish, and which risks or decisions deserve attention first. Work directly with Alexander throughout the review.
A concise 90-day action plan
Receive a written list of priorities, recommended next steps, and responsibility for each action. Use it to decide which tasks to handle internally and which legal projects to authorize.
The review identifies priorities within its agreed scope. Contract revisions, negotiations, implementation, and ongoing support are selected and scoped separately; a limited review does not certify the business's overall compliance.
Process
How the work begins
Step 1
Conflicts and fit
The firm reviews the parties and a short, nonconfidential matter description.
Step 2
Documents and objectives
If the matter appears suitable, the firm identifies the documents, questions, and business objectives needed for assessment.
Step 3
Written scope
The engagement agreement defines the work, responsibilities, timing, and fee terms before representation begins.
Project work or ongoing support
Use the action plan to choose what comes next: a single contract or lease project, agreed revisions and negotiation advice, payment-term improvements, or ongoing help with recurring questions. Ongoing counsel can include owner meetings, a current priorities list, and early advice when a disagreement develops. Each assignment depends on the agreed scope, budget, and timing.
A defined-scope AI policy option
The fixed-fee AI Policy Review and optional leadership workshop remain separate projects for qualifying Arizona businesses using ordinary generative-AI tools internally. Ongoing business counsel does not automatically include that project.
See AI Policy Review pricing and scopeScope boundaries
Meetings, preparation, research, drafting, and follow-up all fall within the scope and budget agreed in the engagement. Larger projects, litigation, court appearances, major transactions, contested ownership matters, and specialist work require separate assessment and terms. Accounting, tax, valuation, and operational consulting are not included in routine business counsel.
The written engagement identifies the business represented and its authorized contacts; owners personally and affiliated businesses are not automatically included. This service does not provide unlimited access, comprehensive compliance certification, or a guarantee of payment or any other outcome. Deadline monitoring applies only where the firm expressly accepts that responsibility in writing.
An example of the work product
A fictional business's first 90 days
This example uses an invented Arizona service company, Desert Lantern Studio. It is not a client story, a result achieved, or a promised schedule. The owner wants clearer customer agreements and fewer surprises when invoices become overdue.
Days 1–30: Set priorities
The owner gathers the agreed customer agreement and invoice terms. Alexander reviews those materials and meets with the owner. The sample plan identifies three priorities: clarify payment triggers, document changes to the work, and choose a consistent way to raise overdue invoices.
Days 31–60: Improve one document
If separately agreed, Alexander drafts revisions to the customer agreement's payment and change-order provisions. The owner decides the commercial terms and explains the updated process to staff. A substantial redraft or negotiation would need its own scope and budget.
Days 61–90: Review what remains
The owner reports how the revised process works. If included in the engagement, Alexander reviews the remaining questions and advises on the next priority. The owner can then choose another project, ongoing support, or no further work.
The sample action list
- Payment terms — owner selects the business terms; counsel advises on and drafts the agreed legal provisions.
- Changes to the work — owner adopts a written approval process; counsel reviews a change-order form if engaged to do so.
- Overdue invoices — owner retains the records; counsel assesses a particular dispute before any demand, negotiation, or litigation engagement.
Actual priorities, fees, and timing follow review of the business's needs. Neither a payment process nor a demand letter guarantees recovery.
Questions before getting started
Can I hire the firm for one contract?
Yes. A discrete contract, lease, or other defined project can be assessed on its own. Ongoing counsel makes sense when the business has recurring needs; it is not a requirement for individual work.
Does counsel include revisions, or only comments?
Agreed work can include actual drafting and revisions, as well as advice. The engagement identifies the documents and work covered. Preparation, research, meetings, drafting, and follow-up all count toward the agreed scope and budget.
What does it cost, and how quickly can work begin?
The firm agrees the scope, fees, timing, and any ongoing arrangement after reviewing the need. The Business Legal Priorities Review and later work have their own agreed terms. Do not send documents or assume work has begun before the firm confirms the appropriate next step and written engagement.
What happens if the work grows?
A larger assignment requires an assessment of the additional scope, budget, and timing. A recurring arrangement does not provide unlimited work or automatically include a major transaction, lawsuit, court appearance, or specialist advice.
Does this cover me personally or another company I own?
Only the client identified in the written engagement is represented. An owner, employee, or affiliated business needs separate consideration; a shared ownership relationship does not automatically extend the engagement.
Can you help when a dispute starts?
Early advice can help the owner understand the documents and available options. Taking on a specific demand, negotiation, or lawsuit requires separate assessment and acceptance. Learn about business disputes and civil litigation or demand-letter assessments. A neutral mediation engagement serves a different role from representing a party.
What about urgent dates, unused time, or ending ongoing support?
Identify any urgent date in the initial nonconfidential inquiry. Sending an inquiry does not engage the firm or make the firm responsible for a deadline. Any ongoing capacity, treatment of unused time, changes, and ending the arrangement must be addressed in the written terms before work starts.
How does AI Policy Review fit?
The AI Policy Review has its own published project scope and fees. It is separately assessed and is not automatically bundled into ongoing counsel.
Next Step
Describe the business question without sending confidential details.
The intake form helps the firm assess conflicts, subject matter, and fit before requesting documents or scheduling a consultation.