Services
Legal support for the work in front of you.
A customer sends over a contract. Your team wants to use a new AI tool. A key hire needs an agreement. An ownership change needs a clear plan.
MB Legal helps businesses work through those decisions, put the right documents in place, and understand what comes next—with ongoing general counsel support or help on a defined project.
Ongoing counsel
Legal support that carries context forward.
For an ongoing general counsel relationship, the individual matters are connected. A customer agreement may raise a privacy issue. An AI tool may affect a client commitment. A hiring decision may involve ownership of the work the employee creates.
Working with the same counsel over time means those decisions can be made with the company’s contracts, people, products, priorities, and earlier choices already in view.
Businesses can also engage MB Legal for a defined project or specific issue without starting an ongoing monthly relationship.
The work
Commercial & technology agreements
Get the agreement right for the actual work.
Most agreements arrive as someone else’s form, on someone else’s timeline. The useful question is which terms change how your business delivers, gets paid, and carries risk.
We review a customer’s or vendor’s form, prepare your own agreements, and negotiate focused changes. Where the same points come up deal after deal, we build reusable templates so the next negotiation starts from your positions.
A useful review also separates legal points from business decisions. We explain which terms need your call, whether scope, payment, intellectual property, confidentiality, warranties, liability, insurance requirements, termination, project administration, or data and security requirements, and what each choice means in practice.
Work can include
- A focused redline
- A negotiation summary
- An issues memo
- A clean agreement
- A reusable template
- A plain-language explanation of key decisions
Representative work
- Reviewed and negotiated a customer master services agreement and security exhibit for a cybersecurity services company.
- Reviewed mechanical subcontracts on multifamily construction projects, including payment terms and insurance program requirements.
AI & emerging technology
Know what you are agreeing to when your business adopts AI.
Your team has found an AI tool that could improve its work. The next questions are practical: what information can go into it, what can be done with the output, and what responsibilities does the vendor actually accept?
We review the proposed use, the product and subscription being purchased, and the terms that apply. That can include confidentiality, use of inputs for training, commercial rights, data handling, output ownership, customer obligations, and restrictions imposed by other agreements.
The result is something your team can act on: whether the tool fits the intended use, on what conditions, and what should change in the contract or in your own policies first. This section is about the AI your business adopts. How MB Legal uses AI in its own practice is a separate subject.
Work can include
- Vendor risk assessment
- Comparison of tools
- Conditions for approved use
- Internal AI policy
- Employee guidance
- Vendor questions
- Contract changes
- Client-facing disclosure language
Representative work
- Reviewed the terms of an AI voice-generation tool proposed for an advertising campaign before production began.
Privacy & data security
Connect your policies, contracts, and actual data practices.
Privacy notices, customer contracts, and security policies can each describe the business a little differently. The work starts with how data actually moves.
We work through actual data flows, align privacy notices with what the business does, and review which vendors can access what. On the contract side, we draft data processing agreements and related terms and respond to customers’ security requirements.
We also test cookie and consent behavior on live websites, work on security policies, and provide legal analysis when an incident occurs, in coordination with the technical responders handling the investigation.
An illustrative question
A consent banner is installed. Does the website behave the way the notice says it does?
Work can include
- Privacy policy
- Data processing agreement
- Data inventory
- Cookie or consent audit
- Security policy
- Remediation checklist
- Vendor requirements
- Incident-analysis memo
- Notification analysis
Representative work
- Performed intake and notification analysis for reported security incidents on a software platform.
Intellectual property
Make ownership and permitted use clear.
Ownership questions are easiest to settle before the work is created. Left open, they tend to surface later, in a customer negotiation, an investment, or a disagreement with a former contractor.
We address who owns what employees and contractors create, how existing technology carries into a new product, and what customers may claim under the ownership clauses in their agreements. We prepare software and content licenses and the confidentiality terms that protect trade secrets.
When someone misuses your name or impersonates your business, we prepare a proportionate response. Where a registration is needed, we coordinate with trademark or registration counsel so the filing and the business context stay connected.
Work can include
- Assignment provisions
- Contractor IP agreements
- Software licenses
- Content licenses
- Customer-agreement revisions
- Internal IP disclosure procedures
- Brand-protection correspondence
- Enforcement planning
Representative work
- Developed an internal disclosure process and licensing terms for tools created by a company’s employees.
- Prepared a response to imposter domains targeting a creative studio, including abuse reports and a domain-dispute complaint.
Employment
Support the decisions that come with hiring and managing people.
Most employment questions arrive at one of three moments: bringing someone on, managing the working relationship, or ending it.
Hire · Manage · Separate
When you hire, we prepare employment agreements, independent contractor arrangements, compensation provisions, and the terms that settle ownership of what an employee creates. While you manage, we draft workplace policies and help with internal investigations and difficult personnel decisions.
At separation, we prepare termination letters and separation and release agreements, and help plan a reduction in force where one is needed. The aim is a clear record of what was decided and why, written so the people carrying it out can follow it.
Work can include
- Employment agreement
- Contractor agreement
- Compensation amendment
- Policy
- Employee acknowledgment
- Termination letter
- Separation or release agreement
- Written implementation plan
Representative work
- Prepared the analysis and documents for a reduction in force, including an adverse-impact review and separation agreements.
Corporate & commercial
Keep the company’s documents aligned with its decisions.
A company’s records should match the decisions its owners have made. When the two drift apart, the gap tends to show up at an inconvenient moment: a sale, a financing, a new partner, or a disagreement.
We work on entity structure, governance records, ownership documentation, and operating or shareholder agreements. When ownership changes, or members or shareholders need to make a decision, we prepare the consents, amendments, and schedules that record it.
We also help owners think through business transitions, prepare for transactions, and handle corporate housekeeping, along with business matters such as leases that do not fit more naturally elsewhere.
Work can include
- Ownership confirmation
- Written consents
- Governance-document amendments
- Ownership schedules
- Operating-agreement changes
- Transition options memo
- Approvals and notices
- Transaction preparation
Representative work
- Supported the setup of a foreign entity for a software company.
What the work can look like
A legal review should help you decide what matters, not just mark up a document. Here is a simplified fictional example of how an agreement review can frame the business decisions.
Illustrative example — fictional facts
| Issue | Why it matters to the business | What the review addresses |
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| Scope of work | The agreement describes obligations beyond the accepted proposal. | Identify the differences, clarify the deliverables, and address how changes will be agreed. |
| Payment process | Payment depends on an approval process with unclear timing. | Explain the payment conditions and propose a clearer approval and dispute process. |
| Existing intellectual property | Ownership language mixes the company’s existing tools with customer-specific work. | Distinguish existing technology from new deliverables and clarify the rights each party needs. |
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Scope of work
Why it matters to the business
The agreement describes obligations beyond the accepted proposal.
What the review addresses
Identify the differences, clarify the deliverables, and address how changes will be agreed.
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Payment process
Why it matters to the business
Payment depends on an approval process with unclear timing.
What the review addresses
Explain the payment conditions and propose a clearer approval and dispute process.
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Existing intellectual property
Why it matters to the business
Ownership language mixes the company’s existing tools with customer-specific work.
What the review addresses
Distinguish existing technology from new deliverables and clarify the rights each party needs.
Every agreement is different. The issues, the format, and the positions taken depend on the business and the deal.
How the work connects
One business decision can touch several areas of law. Ongoing counsel makes it easier to consider those issues together.
Illustrative scenario: adopting an AI tool
- Can the team use this tool for customer work?
- Vendor terms, subscription scope, and commercial-use rights.
- What information can the team provide?
- Confidentiality, privacy, and customer obligations.
- What can the business promise about the finished work?
- Ownership, licensing, warranties, and customer agreements.
- How should employees and contractors use it?
- Internal policies, approved-use conditions, and working agreements.
Work across different kinds of businesses
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Cybersecurity & technology
Commercial agreements, software, licensing, privacy, security, employment, and governance.
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Advertising, marketing & creative services
Agency contracts, production and talent arrangements, licensing, AI-tool review, and vendor terms.
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Construction & specialty trades
Subcontracts, project scope, payment, insurance requirements, notices, and contract administration.
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Medical practices & healthcare services
Business leases, employment, ownership records, governance, and operating matters.
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Professional services & consulting
Engagement letters, contractor relationships, privacy documentation, and customer requirements.
Ways to work together
Support matched to the work.
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Subscription
Monthly counsel for continuing needs and a lasting working relationship.
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Flat-fee project
A defined piece of work, with scope and price agreed at the start.
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Hourly
Flexible support for matters that need room to develop.
See how MB Legal uses technology to support research, drafting, and matter management while keeping lawyer judgment and review at the center.
How MB Legal uses AIQuestions about working together
Can I bring you a single agreement or project?
Yes. Many engagements start with one agreement, one policy, or one specific question. We agree the scope and the fee at the outset, and there is no requirement to begin an ongoing subscription.
When does ongoing general counsel support make sense?
When legal questions come up regularly and each one benefits from knowing the last. Working with the same counsel over time keeps your contracts, people, and priorities in view, so related issues can be considered together instead of one at a time.
Do you work with businesses outside technology?
Yes. Much of the practice serves technology companies, and the work also extends to advertising, marketing, and creative services; construction and specialty trades; medical practices and healthcare services; and professional services and consulting businesses.
Can you work with our internal team and existing advisers?
Yes. The role often involves working with leadership, finance, HR, security, and technical teams, and alongside insurance brokers, accountants, litigation counsel, or specialized counsel as the matter requires.
Your next step
Tell me what is on your desk.
Tell me a little about your business, the issue you are working through, and what you need next.
Response within one business day.