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Outside General Counsel

Law with perspective.

Outside General CounselA good lawyer knows the intricacies of process, procedure, and precedent in their area of practice. A great one combines this knowledge with a more global perspective.

Justine Fanarof brings together decades of legal, mediation, and business consulting experience with a unique point of view honed through a lifetime of heart-centered, people-oriented advocacy work to holistically serve her legal clientele as outside general counsel.

Many non-profits, start-ups, and emerging companies need legal assistance, but do not want to hire in-house counsel. Even the most mature businesses can lack the legal workflow to justify retaining full-time general counsel. For these companies, Justine’s Outsourced General Counsel solution can be an excellent option. In this role, Justine handles a variety of issues in a cost-effective manner.

Fanarof Law provides corporate, administrative, and general counsel services on an as-needed basis for small to medium sized non-profit and for-profit businesses in the Houston area. Justine takes a personal interest in your business and handles all of your legal matters with the utmost care and efficiency.

Outside General Counsel Services:

  • Initial Business & Structure: Plan, process, and file incorporating documents (for and non-profit corporations)
  • Daily & Ongoing Operational: Strategic advice, lateral thinking skills, and legal sounding board for entrepreneurs and creatives, draft agreements and contracts, support entrepreneurship and complete the preparation and filing of complex government forms, processes and procedures, negotiate terms and conditions and support the development and purpose of your human resources
  • Concierge Law: Your trusted personal advisor
  • Corporate Governance: Board of director and shareholder resolutions, directors’ meetings, shareholder meetings and minutes
  • Employment Matters: Hiring, retaining, training, termination and employee handbooks
  • Government Relations
  • Mediation: In-house and ongoing
  • Outside Specialist Support: Trusted network and guidance in education, employment, entertainment, education, hospitality, intellectual property, mediation/dispute resolution and technology.
  • Sophisticated Transactions: Manage, anticipate and oversee
  • Special Projects Counsel: Nuance, privacy and creativity in project vision, management and implementation

Work with Justine

The core of Justine Fanarof’s Outside General Counsel work is transactional and business related. If a client needs a referral for litigation, Fanarof Law will work with trial lawyers, criminal defense attorneys, and appellate advocates for both state and federal cases to ensure all of your legal issues are handled by the appropriate practitioners.

Justine has worked with many corporations, universities, non-profits, and religious institutions, including:

 

It’s a rare person in this world to say, “It’s going to be hard but we need to have this conversation.” Justine does just this. In doing so she fosters a solution through action environment. She has this way of dealing with very challenging issues and people, bringing communication, negotiation, deep listening, and presence together. She creates a path that lets me know I’m supported and everything is going to be ok.
And she’s just really ethical.

Monica Pope Chef/Owner, Sparrow Cookshop

I am so grateful that I had you as my advocate and supporter through this process. THANK YOU.

Dr. Carmen Timberlake

Justine is a dedicated and articulate attorney with a passion for making the world a better place. She is also a quick study, with good judgment and an engaging personality that makes her a delight to have as a colleague.

Steven Freeman VP of Civil Rights, Anti-Defamation League

Justine is very responsive to the needs of her clients. I recently worked with Justine to review a contract and she completed a thorough analysis within a one week time frame as requested.

Maria Eva Infection Control Manager at Houston Methodist

I wanted to reach out and thank you once again for such a spectacular presentation last Friday. I received great feedback and many have asked for the recording. I feel like it was just what we all needed to help us refocus and “find our zen.” Thank you!!!!

Monica Mensah Assistant Dean for Student Affairs, University of Houston Law Center

I really, really enjoyed your class. Driving home I thought that every law firm in Houston should hire you! Clerks and new lawyers need these skill sets.

As I said at the Jung Center, your practices are better than a glass of wine. I continue to do your shoulder exercises and spinal twist. I felt these stretches for days. Please keep me on your list for other seminars. Thanks again.

Sally Shaw Jefferson Energy

Justine helped me write a poignant agreement contract for both my clients and me to follow. It was a clean document that was easy to understand and gave both sides of the table a solid foundation to work from. I would happily use Justine again for any work that involved finding common ground to then work from.

Ileya Grosman, M.Ed. Client

I wanted to let you know that I really enjoyed the course at the Jung Center. I have attended mindfulness trainings for lawyers led by non-lawyers & yoga classes taught by former lawyers, but yours was the first I have attended that was taught by someone who really understood and sustained both practices at the same time. I found the course very accessible and felt connected to and inspired by your experience -- thank you!

Andrea Randisi TX & CA Licensed Attorney

Even having practiced law myself, I never really resonated with the term “counselor at law”. When I started working with Justine, that changed. Instead of simply reacting to the legal issue at hand, we discuss the totality of the circumstances. She understands that my business is an extension of me, and she counsels me, legally and emotionally, accordingly.

Elizabeth Whitehead

As a new entrepreneur, I reached out to Justine to write my first business contract. I trusted that Justine would create a fair, collaborative contract that would not intimidate my clients, and would protect me and my work. She thoughtfully listened to my needs and came up with creative solutions, not giving me a cookie-cutter contract. As a multi-faceted business owner herself, Justine appreciates the intricacies of being a service provider and maintaining clients' trust. Justine is extremely professional, yet maintains mindfulness in all her endeavors. I could not recommend her any more highly!

Patricia Trachtenberg Studio T Interiors

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We focus on helping individuals and companies with outsourced general counsel activities, mindfulness and diversity training, alternative dispute resolution, nonprofit advocacy, business transactions, government relations, and other business consulting services. Find out how we can help your law firm or business.

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