Practice Area
Business Law
Practical counsel for small and family-owned businesses — entity formation, operating and partnership agreements, contract drafting and review, and resolving disputes between owners.
Small businesses rarely need a large firm. They need someone who will read the contract carefully, explain the risk in plain terms, and be reachable when a deal is moving.
I work with owners of closely held and family businesses across Orange County — forming the entity correctly at the start, papering the agreements between partners before they are tested, and stepping in when a relationship or a contract goes sideways.
What that includes
- Entity formation
- LLCs, corporations, and partnerships, structured for how you actually intend to operate.
- Operating & partnership agreements
- The document that decides what happens when owners disagree. Worth getting right early.
- Contract drafting & review
- Vendor, client, lease, and service agreements reviewed for the terms that matter.
- Owner & partner disputes
- Buyouts, dissolutions, and negotiated separations between owners.
- Business & family law overlap
- Valuing and dividing a business interest in a divorce — an area where the two practices meet.
Businesses often come to me through a family law matter, and stay for the ongoing work.
Let's talk about where things actually stand.
A first conversation costs you nothing but the time it takes. You will speak with Julie directly, and you will leave knowing what your options are.