Fragmented advice
Different lawyers may address contracts, disputes, property, employment, or another jurisdiction—without one person maintaining the complete picture.
Legal leadership for business
Outside General Counsel for Florida Businesses
Experienced legal leadership. Practical business advice. One point of coordination.
Nieuchowicz Law helps businesses manage contracts, disputes, commercial real estate, receivables, legal risk, and outside counsel—without building a full-time legal department.
The management problem
Having lawyers is not the same as having legal leadership.
Decisions buried in detail
Management needs options, risk, cost, timing, leverage, and business consequences—not a stack of disconnected legal conclusions.
Executives managing lawyers
Business leaders should make business decisions. They should not have to become project managers for multiple law firms.
One point of legal coordination
The legal-quarterback model
One senior lawyer learns the business, helps leadership define the objective, coordinates the right professionals, and keeps execution aligned with strategy.
- 01Business objective
Start with the outcome management needs.
- 02Legal analysis
Identify the issues and work actually required.
- 03Clear decisions
Present options, risks, cost, timing, and leverage.
- 04Strategy
Develop the preferred course with leadership.
- 05Coordinated counsel
Assign the right lawyers and professionals.
- 06Oversight
Monitor alignment as circumstances change.
- 07Implementation
Return material choices to management and close the loop.
From complexity to action
What decision does management actually need to make?
The useful answer connects legal analysis to economics, capital, cash flow, risk, ownership, assets, liabilities, timing, opportunity cost, relationships, and operations.
- What happened, and why does it matter?
- What are the realistic options?
- What leverage and principal risks exist?
- What could each path cost and how long might it take?
- What operational and relationship consequences could follow?
- Which outcome best advances the company’s objective?
- What should management approve, and what happens next?
What we handle
Recurring counsel, strategic coordination, and focused legal work.
Actual services and inclusions depend on the written engagement agreement.
Contracts & Agreements
Customer, vendor, service, consulting, contractor and confidentiality agreements; amendments; negotiation; interpretation; default and termination issues.
Commercial Real Estate
Leases, amendments, purchase and sale issues, easements, property rights, operating agreements, disputes, and transaction issue spotting.
Business Operations
Recurring legal questions, governance, consents, entity documentation, business relationships, risk allocation, insurance and indemnification review.
Disputes Before Litigation
Demands, defaults, customer and vendor disputes, owner disputes, evidence preservation, settlement, and pre-suit strategy.
Collections & Receivables
Delinquent accounts, documentation, demand strategy, settlement, collection options, and judgment-enforcement strategy where appropriate.
Management & Legal Strategy
Management reporting, review of counsel recommendations, litigation oversight, multi-jurisdiction coordination, and budget or scope discussions.
Multi-jurisdictional coordination
One strategy across multiple counsel and jurisdictions.
When a business issue crosses borders, the central problem is often coordination: defining the objective, understanding jurisdiction-specific advice, comparing alternatives, and keeping implementation aligned.
Nieuchowicz Law does not purport to practice foreign law where the attorney is not admitted. Appropriately licensed local counsel provides jurisdiction-specific legal advice and representation. The OGC role may include coordinating objectives, digesting advice, developing strategy with management, communicating approved instructions, and monitoring implementation.
Why Ilan
Big-firm experience. Direct senior-level attention.
Business counsel informed by litigation experience—and by the practical consequences of unclear obligations, weak documentation, poor remedies, and misaligned strategy.
Ilan A. Nieuchowicz is admitted in Florida and the District of Columbia, is a former Carlton Fields shareholder, and is shown by Martindale-Hubbell as AV Preeminent®. Those credentials support a practical benefit: familiarity with complex disputes, specialist counsel, sophisticated counterparties, litigation teams, legal budgets, and direct senior-level accountability.
Good business counsel should consider not only how an agreement works when everyone performs, but what happens when someone does not.
Who it is for
Built for businesses with recurring legal needs or coordination complexity.
- Established small and middle-market companies
- Family-owned and professional-services businesses
- Real-estate owners, operators, developers, and contractors
- Companies with recurring contracts or meaningful receivables
- Businesses using multiple entities, firms, states, or countries
It may not be the right model when:
- Legal needs arise only occasionally or involve one isolated matter.
- The primary need is outside the firm’s capabilities.
- The company already has effective internal general counsel.
- The business needs a dedicated full-time attorney.
- The expectation is unlimited litigation for a nominal monthly fee.
A focused first step
Business Legal Assessment
$2,500 fixed fee
Conflicts clearance and a signed engagement agreement defining the agreed scope are required.
- Management consultation and business-context review
- Review of an agreed set of key documents
- Identification of recurring legal needs and major within-scope priorities
- Review of the current legal-provider structure and anticipated disputes
- Recommendation concerning an appropriate legal-support model
Transparent starting points
OGC plans tailored to the business.
Plans vary by company size, complexity, expected usage, legal needs, and written scope. No plan promises unlimited services.
Essential Counsel
Starting at $1,500/month
- Routine access and recurring legal questions
- Defined contract review and preventive advice
- Annual legal review
- Preferred-client pricing for separate matters
Outside General Counsel
Starting at $3,000/month
- More frequent management access
- Recurring review, negotiation, and selected drafting
- Quarterly strategy and governance support
- Dispute counseling and counsel coordination
GC Plus
Starting at $5,000/month
- Priority and higher-volume recurring support
- Management-level strategic involvement
- Dispute and litigation-strategy oversight
- Specialist and multi-jurisdiction coordination
Generally separate engagements
Litigation, arbitration, appeals, major transactions or M&A, significant financing, major investigations or discovery, bankruptcy, tax, securities, patent prosecution, specialized regulatory work, foreign-law advice, and other matters beyond the defined monthly scope.
OGC may still identify the issue, help select counsel, coordinate specialists or local counsel, evaluate recommendations, and oversee implementation.
Advertised-fee terms
The advertised fixed fee and monthly starting prices will be honored for at least 90 days from publication. The applicable written engagement controls the accepted scope, payment timing, earned and unearned fees, and refund treatment under applicable law. Filing, recording, service, certified-copy, paid-record or search, expert, local-counsel, travel, technology, and other third-party costs are not included unless the written engagement expressly says otherwise; additional costs require the client’s advance approval.
Make the model concrete
Compare costs, then assess fit.
Frequently asked questions
Outside General Counsel, in practical terms.
What is Outside General Counsel?
A senior outside lawyer who helps management organize legal needs, make informed decisions, coordinate appropriate counsel, and maintain continuing oversight—without serving as a full-time employee.
What does OGC actually do?
The role can include recurring advice, contract work, governance, dispute prevention, management reporting, outside-counsel coordination, litigation-strategy oversight, and implementation monitoring, within the written scope.
Is litigation included?
Generally not in the monthly plan. Litigation usually requires a separate engagement, although OGC may help management define strategy, coordinate litigation counsel, evaluate recommendations, and monitor execution.
Can OGC manage our other law firms?
OGC can serve as management’s central interface, help define assignments, digest recommendations, compare risk and cost, communicate approved strategy, and monitor whether work remains aligned.
Who gives foreign-law advice?
Appropriately licensed local counsel. Nieuchowicz Law may coordinate business objectives and strategy but does not purport to provide foreign-law advice where the attorney is not admitted.
Is OGC less expensive than hiring in-house?
It can be, depending on scope and assumptions, but the models are not equivalent and no savings are guaranteed. Use the calculator to compare editable estimates.
What is the Business Legal Assessment?
A one-time, fixed-scope entry engagement designed to understand the business context, review agreed materials, identify recurring needs, and recommend an appropriate legal-support structure.
Can we start with one project?
Yes, if the matter fits the firm. The preliminary assessment may indicate that project-based counsel is more appropriate than a monthly OGC plan.
A clearer legal-management model
You run the business. Your Outside General Counsel can help manage the legal strategy.
Start with non-confidential information. No attorney-client relationship is created unless conflicts are cleared and a written engagement is signed.