Engagements
Most matters begin with a strategic assessment and fit review.
From there, engagements typically proceed as either defined-scope strategic engagements or select ongoing advisory.
Engagements are limited and evaluated for structural fit.
Common engagement contexts:
Forced exits and reputational exposure
High-exposure discrimination and retaliation matters
Governance fracture and internal control disputes
Volatile claims, sensitive internal matters, and stakeholder pressure
Pre-suit positioning and strategic negotiation
Representative clients include:
Executives and senior professionals
Founders, boards, and executive leadership
Institutional and nonprofit leadership
Organizations navigating volatile claims or
high-exposure disputes
high-exposure disputes
Strategic Assessments
Defined-scope legal and strategic diagnostic assessments for high-stakes professional, employment, governance, reputation, transition, and institutional conflict matters.
Basic Strategic Assessment
For discrete matters requiring an initial legal-strategic read before the next step is taken.
Fee: $1,500
Includes:
- Review of up to 25 pages of selected materials
- One 60-minute strategy session
- Identification of immediate risks, pressure points, and strategic options
- Short written recommendation summary
Best suited for:
- Early-stage workplace conflict
- Initial exit or separation questions
- A single high-stakes communication or decision
- Preliminary assessment before escalation
Standard Strategic Assessment
For serious matters requiring a fuller assessment of facts, leverage, risk, positioning, and next steps.
Fee: $3,500
Includes:
- Review of up to 50 pages of selected materials
- One 90-minute strategy session
- Risk, leverage, and stakeholder assessment
- Written strategic assessment memorandum
Best suited for:
- Forced exit or structured separation
- Retaliation, discrimination, or reputational exposure
- Governance or leadership conflict
- Succession pressure or blocked transition
- Pre-suit positioning or negotiation planning
Priority Strategic Assessment
For urgent matters requiring accelerated legal-strategic clarity before a high-risk decision, meeting, response, or escalation.
Fee: $5,000-$7,500
Includes:
- Expedited review of up to 100 pages of selected materials
- One 90-minute priority strategy session
- One 30-minute follow-up session
- Immediate risk, leverage, and sequencing assessment
- Written priority assessment or action memorandum
Best suited for:
- Imminent HR, board, leadership, or counsel meeting
- Pending exit conversation or separation deadline
- Demand, investigation, threat, or public-facing issue
- Time-sensitive negotiation or response
- Matters where delay may materially affect leverage or exposure
Unless otherwise agreed in writing, Strategic Assessments do not include ongoing representation, negotiation execution, communications with third parties, litigation filings, agency proceedings, or appearance before any court, employer, institution, board, or opposing party.
Additional work may be available through a separate strategic engagement or ongoing advisory arrangement.
Additional work may be available through a separate strategic engagement or ongoing advisory arrangement.
Strategic Engagements
Defined-scope strategic engagements for high-stakes matters requiring analysis, positioning, negotiation, or escalation.
Pre-Suit Strategy & Demand Architecture
For high-stakes conflicts where facts, leverage, and positioning must be established before incentives harden.
Includes:
- Factual reconstruction and risk mapping
- Liability framing and incentive modeling
- Leverage calibration and early positioning
Negotiation & Structured Exit Strategy
For executives, senior professionals, and institutions seeking controlled resolution, structured exit, or high-stakes negotiation execution.
Includes:
- Outcome structuring and communication sequencing
- Engagement with institutional decision-makers
- Negotiation execution and reputational positioning
Litigation & Escalation Strategy (Selective)
For select escalated matters requiring legal strategy, settlement posture, and coordinated escalation planning.
Includes:
- Legal strategy and escalation sequencing
- Settlement posture and narrative containment
- Coordination with trial counsel or specialists as required
Select Ongoing Advisory
Ongoing strategic counsel for executive, governance, and institutional pressure matters requiring sustained positioning, negotiation, governance support, or risk management.
Governance & Leadership Advisory
For boards, founders, executive leadership, and institutions navigating governance fracture, stakeholder pressure, and sensitive decision-making.
- Governance fracture analysis
- Risk containment and exposure assessment
- Board and leadership advisory
- Strategic sequencing and escalation planning
Ongoing Executive Strategic Counsel
For executives and senior professionals navigating sustained institutional exposure, internal pressure, quiet negotiation, or pre-dispute positioning.
- Strategic risk assessment
- Positioning and documentation guidance
- Negotiation support
- Exit and reputational planning where appropriate
Process & Pricing
Process
- Strategic assessment and fit review
- Conflicts check and scope definition
- Defined deliverables and execution pathway
- Negotiation, resolution, or escalation, as required
Pricing
Strategic assessments and defined-scope strategic engagements are priced based on urgency, complexity, and required level of execution.
Select ongoing advisory retainers are available in appropriate matters.
Hybrid or contingency structures are available in select matters.