Small business legal counsel, built around how you actually operate.
Formation, contracts, ongoing counsel, and MWBE certification support for solo founders and small teams across North Carolina. Virtual statewide; based near Asheville.
Packages
Transparent pricing. Real attorney time.
No mystery hourly bills for routine work. When you need something custom, we scope it before the clock runs.
Entity Formation
$1,500
Everything you need to legally exist as a business, with two hours of attorney counsel built in.
- Up to 2 hours of attorney consultation
- Entity type analysis (LLC, S-Corp, C-Corp, PLLC)
- Articles of Organization / Incorporation filing
- Operating Agreement or Bylaws
- Founder consents & resolutions
- Black Beauty corporate kit
- Intro session with our business consultant
Operate Counsel
Custom retainer
Ongoing legal support so you stop Googling contracts and start running the business. Ideal once you have customers, contractors, or employees.
- Monthly attorney hours on retainer
- Contract review & drafting (clients, vendors, NDAs)
- Employment & contractor agreements
- MWBE certification support (NC HUB, federal SBA)
- Lease & vendor negotiation
- Direct line for the 11pm legal questions
Operating Agreement Only
$750
Already filed your entity yourself? We'll button up the most important document you skipped — the OA that defines who gets what when things change.
- 30-minute intake call
- Custom Operating Agreement
- Multi-member exit & buy-sell provisions
- Single-member protections
Also available
Focused legal work for specific moments.
MWBE Certification Support
Legal preparation and document review for minority-, women-, and veteran-owned business certifications — NC HUB, federal SBA 8(a), WOSB, VOSB.
Contract Drafting & Review
Client service agreements, contractor MSAs, NDAs, vendor terms, and the specific contracts your industry actually uses.
Employment & Hiring
Offer letters, employment agreements, contractor vs. employee classification, and basic handbook templates.
Buying or Selling a Business
Asset purchase, equity purchase, due diligence support, and structuring guidance — informed by 25 years of business operations experience.
Working with NC business resources
Counsel that works alongside North Carolina's small business ecosystem.
North Carolina founders have real support available to them — the Small Business and Technology Development Center (SBTDC), the Small Business Center at every community college, the Nussbaum Center for Entrepreneurship in Greensboro, HQ Raleigh and American Underground in the Triangle, Ventureprise in Charlotte, Venture Asheville and Mountain BizWorks in the west, plus funders like NC IDEA, Thread Capital, and Carolina Small Business Development Fund. We recommend them often, and we work well with all of them.
When the conversation turns to entity choice, ownership documents, contracts, or certification paperwork, that is where this firm comes in. If you have already done planning work with one of these organizations, bring it — it makes the legal work faster and sharper.
Turning a plan into a company
Choosing LLC vs. corporation, filing with the NC Secretary of State, and drafting the operating agreement that matches the plan you built.
Getting ready for certification
NC HUB and federal certifications look closely at ownership and control documents. We prepare them so the file holds up on review.
Before capital or contracts
Lender packages, government contracting, and investor conversations all require clean governance records. We build them to survive diligence.
Kegler Law Firm, PLLC is an independent law firm and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or a part of the SBTDC, the NC Small Business Center Network, the U.S. Small Business Administration, or any other organization named above.
Ready when you are.
Tell us what stage you're at. We'll tell you honestly whether you need legal work today, strategy, or just five minutes of free advice.