Services
Strategic Legal Infrastructure for Growing Companies
Harbor & Main Law delivers Fractional General Counsel services designed to remove friction from growth. Every engagement runs on a Fixed-Fee Monthly Retainer, so legal becomes predictable, usable, and scalable.
Contract Lifecycle Management
Cleaner deals that protect margin and scope
The Challenge
Agency and professional services contracts often drift out of alignment with how work is actually delivered. Scope creep, pricing ambiguity, and outdated MSAs quietly erode margin and strain client relationships.
Our Approach
We manage your contracts from first draft through renewal. This includes drafting and negotiating MSAs, SOWs, vendor agreements, and amendments, and advising on negotiation posture before issues harden into disputes.
Client Results
Clients gain clearer scope, more consistent terms, and fewer contract-driven escalations. Deals move with less friction, and leadership spends less time re-litigating agreements after work begins.
Workforce Compliance & Scaling
Employment decisions that lower operational exposure
The Challenge
As teams grow, employment risk grows with them. Misclassification, inconsistent policies, and unclear termination processes expose agencies and firms to avoidable disputes and regulatory scrutiny.
Our Approach
We advise on hiring, classification, terminations, and workplace policies. Our work includes drafting employment agreements, reviewing handbooks, and counseling leadership on compliance as headcount expands.
Client Results
Clients operate with clearer rules, better documentation, and more consistent decision-making. Employment issues are handled earlier, reducing disruption and helping leadership manage people with confidence.
Intellectual Property Protection
Safeguarding the value you create and sell
The Challenge
Creative output is often governed by loose language or assumptions. Ownership gaps, unclear licenses, and talent agreements drafted without foresight can undermine long-term value.
Our Approach
We structure IP ownership and licensing to reflect your business model. This includes drafting and reviewing IP provisions in client contracts, talent agreements, and internal policies.
Client Results
Clients retain clearer rights in their work and reduce disputes over ownership. IP becomes a protected business asset rather than an afterthought negotiated under pressure.
Corporate Governance & Leadership Support
Practical legal guidance for confident executive decisions
The Challenge
Founders and leadership teams juggle board obligations, investor questions, and legal decisions without a single point of legal accountability. Important issues linger or get addressed reactively.
Our Approach
We serve as outside general counsel to leadership. We advise on governance matters, prepare board materials, review strategic agreements, and help leadership assess legal risk tied to growth decisions.
Client Results
Executives make decisions with clearer legal context and fewer downstream surprises. Governance becomes organized, responsive, and aligned with how the business is actually run.
Estate Planning for Business Owners
Strategic estate planning aligned with ownership, control, and long-term business continuity
The Challenge
For business owners, estate planning is often treated as a personal task separate from the company itself. As the business grows, ownership, control, succession, and family considerations become increasingly complex. Without a coordinated plan, critical decisions are left to default Illinois law, probate courts, or documents that were never designed to work together.
Our Approach
We approach estate planning through a business-owner lens. We design estate plans that align personal goals with business realities, coordinating wills, trusts, and powers of attorney with operating agreements, shareholder arrangements, and buy-sell provisions. Our focus is continuity, ensuring the right people have authority to act, ownership transitions are intentional, and the business remains stable through incapacity, death, or generational transfer.
Client Results
Owners gain clarity and control over how their business and personal assets are handled during life and after death. Succession is planned rather than assumed, authority is clearly defined, and families and partners avoid unnecessary conflict. The result is an estate plan that supports long-term stability, preserves value, and respects how the business actually operates.
How It Works
The Fractional Retainer Model
This isn’t hourly legal.
It’s an embedded Scalable Legal Department without the overhead.
You Get
A fixed monthly cost
No billable-hour friction
One accountable legal partner
Legal becomes an operational asset without surprise expenses.
As a growing creative agency, we needed ongoing legal support. Having outsourced general counsel has changed how we operate. Contracts are tighter, employment decisions are clearer, and leadership isn’t second-guessing legal issues after the fact. The advice is practical, responsive, and grounded in how agencies actually work.
– Brittney Murray, Mogul Behaviour
Let’s Talk Through Your Legal Priorities
Schedule a brief conversation to discuss where your contracts, governance, or infrastructure may benefit from clearer structure and support.