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Initial legal map
Contracts, real estate, corporate posture, and operating risk organized into a prioritized plan.
Valverde Legal Group, PLLC
Strategy Before Dispute
Fractional general counsel for South Florida operators
In-house legal judgment for companies that have outgrown templates.
Structure before dispute, with fixed-fee options and recurring counsel built around how your business runs.
$3M–$30M operator-led companiesContracts + office / warehouse leasesFlorida companies and matters
Why a fractional general counsel
Templates start a business. Structure sustains one.
Most growing companies do not need a full-time lawyer.
They need one attorney who understands the business, owns the legal relationship, and builds structure before cost shows up as dispute, delay, or drift.
Fixed recurring scope. Separately priced work is identified and approved before it begins.
One counsel relationship, visible work, and clear boundaries around what the business actually uses.
Services Bank · Scope-specific
Included work, made operational in writing.
A Services Bank is the module-specific monthly work allowance stated in the Scope Addendum. It is not a universal hour bucket or a promise of unstated access, response time, or capacity.
- Measured by the module
- Each Scope Addendum states its included monthly work allowance using the unit that fits the work: defined deliverables, review sessions, strategy time, or another expressly stated measure.
- Limited to written scope
- Drafting, review, research, negotiation strategy, and ongoing counsel count only to the extent the selected module and its Scope Addendum include them. A Services Bank is not an unlimited-work promise.
- Resets each month
- Included capacity resets monthly and does not roll forward. That keeps the bank tied to current operating needs instead of accumulating as a future project balance.
- Approval before expansion
- Work outside the written bank requires notice, a quote, and approval before it begins. Commercial Contracting live counterparty negotiation is the published exception at the $275-per-hour member rate.
Confirm before signing
- The exact allowance and how it is measured
- Which requests count against the bank
- Who may request work and the expected response or turnaround
- How spikes, overage, urgent requests, and unavailable counsel are handled
- Which work requires separate scope or specialist referral
Those operating values are engagement-specific. Only the values stated in the signed engagement and Scope Addendum apply.
The Services Bank makes reserved legal capacity visible inside the monthly plan.
Offer architecture
Make the service feel like a legal function, not a menu of hours.
A fixed-fee legal relationship built around one attorney, visible work, and written boundaries for included and separately priced services.
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Services Bank
Reserved capacity and included work are defined in writing so the monthly plan stays legible.
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90-day module review
Add-on modules run in ninety-day periods, with a quarterly decision to renew, pause, or replace them.
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Clear prevention line
Litigation prevention stays inside the relationship. Litigation defense and specialty matters get referred before incentives blur.
Built for
- Florida companies doing $3M–$30M in revenue
- Early-stage companies signing real contracts or carrying real legal exposure
- SaaS, technical, goods, or services businesses protecting IP, margin, and long-term commercial value
- Owner-led businesses with recurring contracts
- Companies negotiating office or industrial leases
- GovCon-adjacent businesses navigating FAR and small-business programs
- Operators who want more predictable scope and spend than ad hoc outside-counsel work
- Teams that want counsel embedded enough to build policies, frameworks, and contracts around actual operations
Not the right fit
- Litigation, arbitration, courtroom work, or active dispute defense
- Patent or trademark prosecution, or IP litigation
- Product-liability litigation or active agency enforcement defense
- Major M&A, securities, or tax work
Not sure? The fit call is 20 minutes. You will know by the end.
Book a fit callPractice system
Build the planSix modules. One counsel relationship.
Commercial Contracting is the baseline because recurring customer and vendor paper is the operating layer that connects revenue, obligations, and risk. Add-on modules run in ninety-day periods and are reviewed quarterly.
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Commercial Contracting
Contracting infrastructure for companies whose revenue now depends on the paper they sign.
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Commercial Real Estate
Real estate counsel for operators whose office, warehouse, and facility documents touch the business model.
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Corporate
Corporate infrastructure for companies that need decisions, authority, equity, and governance to survive scrutiny.
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Government Contracting
GovCon counsel for companies pursuing public dollars without letting flowdowns, certifications, and cyber clauses outrun the business.
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Product Liability Strategy
Product-risk counsel for companies that need the incident playbook before the incident arrives.
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Industrial Supplier Counsel
Supply-chain counsel for industrial suppliers selling into marine, energy, and heavy-industry buyers.
Read the practiceModule stack
Start with the baseline. Add support where complexity recurs.
Baseline plus one or two modules creates the flagship middle tier. Optional modules run in 90-day periods, carry their own Scope Addenda and Services Banks, and are reviewed quarterly.
Baseline · Commercial Contracting
Always included
- Month one: tailored goods and services master agreements
- Then: two review-and-revision sessions each month
- Five hours of negotiation strategy each month
- Live counterparty negotiation: $275/hr member rate
$3,500
Full stack
Custom integrated scope · starting price
From $10,250
Before the fit call
Six questions. A read on what you would buy.
Not a quote. A starting shape. We confirm it on the call, and adjust it at the quarterly fit review.
Question 1 of 6: How much paper crosses your desk in a month?
Question 1 of 6
How much paper crosses your desk in a month?
The quarterly fit review
Every ninety days, we reshape the engagement to match the business.
Add-on modules run in ninety-day periods. At each quarterly fit review, you choose whether to renew, pause, or replace them.
- Q1Jan · Feb · MarEngagement begins · scope and Services Banks set
- Q2Apr · May · JunFirst quarterly fit review — adjust modules
- Q3Jul · Aug · SepMid-year — carry, swap, or pause modules
- Q4Oct · Nov · DecRenewal conversation · next year's mix
Legal work should not feel like a series of isolated documents. It should feel like a function inside the business.
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