088: Kristen Hayes Kuse discusses Outsourced General Counsel Services to small businesses

Focusing her attention on business law, Attorney Kristen Hayes Kuse, founder of Integrated General Counsel, is the legal professional business owners need. Astute and personable in demeanor, Kristen has utilized her seventeen years of experience to counsel her clients keeping them within the legal confines of the law.

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Fail fast to succeed faster

• Listen as Kristen discusses the challenges of moving from working with other attorneys to working with business owners.

Tell us something good

• Kristen tells us about helping clients understand their options.
• She helped one client who was threatened with a large federal lawsuit.  She negotiated a walk-away outcome including her own attorney’s fees.
• She worked with a client filing a trademark where the outcome was far from certain.  She successfully saw the process through.

What’s on your desk?

• Clients are referred to her by her existing client base.
• She provides general counsel work in her ongoing relationships with existing clients.
• She also provides support for transactional matters such as contract drafting and review, filing trademarks, lease issues and franchise issues.

Favorite Resource

• Fujitsu ScanSnap iX500 Scanner for PC and Mac (PA03656-B005)
• Worldox – Worldox  is a comprehensive document management system for the real world.

Favorite Books:

• The Go-Giver: A Little Story About a Powerful Business Idea The Go-Giver tells the story of an ambitious young man named Joe who yearns for success.

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