Outside General Counsel

We understand that growing businesses need top-tier legal support while keeping costs manageable. To help clients in Southwest Virginia and neighboring regions—including Tennessee, North Carolina, and West Virginia—we offer a monthly-retainer model instead of traditional hourly billing. This approach provides high-quality legal services with predictable costs. As your Outside General Counsel, we equip you with proactive legal strategies to support your business’s growth, rather than just reacting to challenges.

CowanPerry serves a diverse range of businesses, including manufacturers, tech firms, service providers, government entities, and startups. Many of our clients rely on our long-term, monthly-retainer arrangements for ongoing legal counsel. Our services span key practice areas such as corporate law, tax, employment law, litigation, intellectual property, real estate, and business succession planning. We provide executives with strategic advice on compliance, transactions, and potential disputes.

To begin, we meet with you to assess your legal needs and design a customized service plan. A typical retainer includes:

• Unlimited phone and email consultations

• Contract drafting, review, and negotiation

• Strategic planning

• Employment law compliance and training

• Intellectual property protection

• Attendance at officer and board meetings

• Maintenance of state reporting requirements

For significant, unpredictable events—such as litigation, mergers, acquisitions, patent filings, or capital-raising transactions—separate budgets or fixed-fee proposals will be developed as needed, outside of the regular retainer.