Areas of Focus:
On-Call General Counsel
Day-to-day legal guidance on the decisions that come up between the big ones, so you're advising from a position of knowledge, not guessing or waiting until a problem forces the issue.
Risk Mitigation & Litigation Avoidance
Reviewing how your business actually operates to find and fix legal vulnerabilities before they become lawsuits.
Contractual Strategy
Drafting, reviewing, and negotiating non-competition, non-solicitation, and other restrictive covenants, master service agreements, and vendor contracts — all with a litigator's eye for where they tend to break.
Employment & Workforce Counsel
Guiding hiring, restrictive covenants, and separations – including the significant changes Florida's recent CHOICE Act made to non-compete enforceability – so routine workforce decisions don't become liabilities.
Partnership & Shareholder Advisory
Reviewing and structuring internal agreements to limit the likelihood of future ownership disputes or "business divorces
Corporate Governance & Compliance
Handling the entity housekeeping and corporate formalities that keep your business in good standing and harder to challenge down the road.
Crisis Management & Pre-Litigation Response
Stepping in fast during high-stakes transitions, demand letters, or unexpected threats, and resolving matters before they escalate into litigation wherever possible.
GET THE LEGAL HELP YOU NEED
Your On-Call Legal Partner – Proactive Counsel to Safeguard and Grow Your Interests
Business moves fast in Florida, and the costliest disputes are usually the ones you could have seen coming. At The Duarte Firm, we serve as your outside general counsel – the lawyer who knows your business before there's a problem to solve – putting our courtroom experience to work to keep you out of the courtroom in the first place.
Most growing companies need sound legal judgment more often than they need a full-time, in-house attorney. We fill that gap. Whether you need a few hours a month or a steady presence as you scale, we offer flexible arrangements that give you in-house-caliber counsel without the cost of an in-house hire, spotting room for improvement in your contracts, partnerships, and operations while they're still easy to fix.
