Protect Your Best Interests With The Help Of An Attorney

Starting and maintaining a business is a significant undertaking that should be approached carefully and with a strong support system.

The commercial and business lawyers at McKinley, Conger, Jolley & Galarneau, LLP, serving greater Central Valley and Stockton, CA, can support your business and help you strategically address any challenges or opportunities.

So Why Should You Hire a Business Lawyer?

Maintain Compliance

A business lawyer can provide guidance in matters of organizing your business and obtaining licensing. They can help ensure that you remain in compliance with local and federal laws that apply to your business. This can include filing paperwork on your behalf and properly registering your business.

Protect Your Assets

Regardless of your industry, you likely have valuable assets associated with your business that need protection from outside parties. For some businesses, this will include intellectual property, while others have more tangible assets like real estate holdings and inventory.

Legal Representation

At some point, your business may face legal action from a previous employee or other entities. You should always have a lawyer on hand who focuses on business law and is familiar with your organization. An attorney can help you navigate these issues and protect your best interests.

Focus on Your Success

Operating a successful business can be demanding and requires your undivided attention. A specialized attorney can concentrate on the complex legal aspects of your business and keep you informed of any developments or issues while you remain focused on the future of your organization.

Peace of Mind

Working with a business attorney that you trust can provide you with peace of mind that your organization is legally and financially sound. When hiring a lawyer to represent your business, you should make sure that they can be trusted as your advisor to act in your best interest at all times.

Save Money

A business lawyer monitors and anticipates issues that may affect your business. They can then help you implement a strategy to prevent these issues from coming to fruition, or at the very least mitigate the damage to your organization. As such, they can often save you money and achieve the best possible outcome.

Isn’t Hiring an Attorney Expensive?

We understand many business owners–especially those embarking on new ventures–feel financially spread thin. But cutting corners by failing to consult an attorney early on can have immense repercussions. Consider the consequences of a poorly handled dispute:

Tarnished reputation in the community
Fewer business contracts in the future
Lack of applicants for roles within your company
Fewer investors and shareholders

The bottom line is that failing to take appropriate legal measures now will likely cost you in the future. You can trust our team to recommend only the services that are pertinent to your unique type of business and current level of development.

Our Commitment to Clients

As a cohesive legal team, we thrive on helping each client make informed decisions for the protection of his or her most important interests. We are adept at finding innovative solutions and strategies to achieve our clients’ goals as efficiently and economically as possible. As engaged community leaders and participants, we also devote our time to serving on boards and organizations that benefit children, the disadvantaged in society and other causes. We are established members of this great community, and have been trusted with a wide variety of large cases across generations of local families.

A Business Lawyer Can Provide the Support You Need

In today’s complex, intensely competitive marketplace, it is more important than ever for business owners and stakeholders to have trustworthy legal counsel that is always just a phone call away. From early-stage business planning to partnership or corporate dissolution and every step in between, our law firm is a proven resource.

As your company develops, a commercial or business lawyer can assist with mergers and acquisitions, business formation, contract and lease review, and many more important processes. Our team understands the financial and personal investment you have made and can provide the passionate, tireless representation you may need in business or commercial litigation.

Services We Offer

We have built many long-standing, productive relationships with entrepreneurs and business leaders across the spectrum of Bay Area commerce. Whether you are primarily engaged in agriculture or technology, real estate or medical services, hospitality, retail merchandising or another pursuit, our Stockton-based business lawyers are exceptionally equipped to help you with:

All aspects of business structure and entity formation, including registration and essential, ongoing record keeping and reporting needs for your partnership, limited liability company or corporation
Drafting, review and negotiations associated with all types of business agreements, including contracts and commercial leases
An employment lawyer at our firm can handle concerns faced by employers, ranging from the development and implementation of employee manuals, policies and best practices to defense of your interests when employees allege discrimination, wage and hour violations or other wrongdoing
Business and commercial litigation and other forms of dispute resolution arising from contract breaches, problematic real estate transactions, allegations of unfair competition, disputes between partners and a vast range of other situations

If a problem or opportunity involves your business, our accomplished legal team has the perspective and resources to help you deal with it effectively. In addition to our prowess within the field of commercial law, we have complementary strengths in wealth and estate planning at all levels.

At McKinley, Conger, Jolley & Galarneau, LLP, each named partner has more than 20 years of wide-ranging practice experience, with business and commercial law as key focus areas. Our attorneys bring strengths in taxation, asset protection, and other specific concerns. We work closely with each client to tailor services to your unique needs.

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Testimonials

I had a very vicious divorce that took over 3 years. My ex-wife went through 3 attorneys trying to keep up and gain the upper hand…It was a hard road, but I’m very thankful I stayed the path with John, he knew what he was doing and his strategy worked flawlessly.

I have worked with John as co-counsel and against John as opposing counsel. There is no one more ethical and hard-working.

Brett is a consummate professional who is very well versed in the area of land use law. He brings a general affability and substantive acumen to his legal practice. Clients uniformly have a high regard for his passionate and credible representation.

We contacted Megan to update our family trust and found her very knowledgeable on the subject. She was able to give us a clear and detailed explanation of the complexities of the family trust. We highly recommend her.