Joseph Schohl - Attorney - General Counsel Services

Profession	Attorney

Specialty	General Counsel Services

Group	WLK6

Business Name	GeneralCounselWest, PC

Title	Founder

Address	32107 Lindero Canyon Road Suite 106 Westlake Village, CA 91361-4271

Work Phone	(818)879-8500

Fax	(866)795-4506

Web Site	www.generalcounselwest.com


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Member Since	1/2011

Outside General Counsel - GeneralCounselWest serves as outside general counsel for emerging and fast-growing companies. We provide broad-based counsel that is specifically tailored to helping you grow your company. When you have us on your team, you have a partner who invests in understanding your business operations, industry and people. We will help guide you at all stages of your company�s life cycle from formation through growth, maturity and exit. When your company reaches a size and scope that necessitates full-time legal support, we can help you plan the structure and obtain the resources that are optimal for your unique situation.

Primary Care Attorney - Much like you would go to a physician who is a general practitioner to manage your overall physical health, we use our broad-based knowledge of legal issues and opportunities to serve as your primary resource for legal counsel. We practice preventative law to help our clients avoid expensive and time-consuming legal crises down the road. We also help spot and resolve problems when they do arise, and help identify and oversee the right outside law firm resources when a specialist or additional attorneys are needed.

Strategic Legal Review - Although many of our clients first hire us to deal with a specific matter, we recommend that new clients engage GeneralCounselWest to perform a Strategic Legal Review (SLR). Through an SLR, we can help you proactively identify, prioritize and address your most critical legal issues and opportunities to mitigate risk and create competitive advantage.

Specialties

general counsel, corporate attorney, project manager, outsourced general counsel, acquisitions and divestitures, financings, due diligence reviews, contract negotiations, commercial disputes (including litigation management), support of core business activities, securities law matters, development of legal compliance programs

Outside General Counsel - GeneralCounselWest serves as outside general counsel for emerging and fast-growing companies. We provide broad-based counsel that is specifically tailored to helping you grow your company. When you have us on your team, you have a partner who invests in understanding your business operations, industry and people. We will help guide you at all stages of your company�s life cycle from formation through growth, maturity and even exit. When your company reaches a size and scope that necessitates full-time legal support, we can help you plan the structure and obtain the resources that are optimal for your unique situation.

GC Leverage - GeneralCounselWest also serves companies who are further along the growth path and already have an inside General Counsel. We work closely with the GCs, their legal departments, and other senior executives to solve complex issues at the intersection of law and business. More is expected of GC's today than ever before - there is more pressure to push the envelope on legal risks, new and changing regulations, company growth expectations, an expanding GC role, and the constraint of addressing these issues all while being asked to cut legal spend. We work with you, the GC, to be successful in this turbulent and challenging time. We provide advice on some or all of the issues, including serving as a sounding board for you, and providing the capacity to get the work done in a cost effective manner.

M&A Leadership and Support - If you are in acquisition mode, GeneralCounselWest can help you through the process. One of our core competencies is leading companies through legal due diligence and the coordination of the legal aspects of transactions from start to finish. For smaller acquisitions, we offer an alternative when a larger law firm may lead to overkill. For larger transactions, we partner with you in managing outside counsel to get the best overall results.

Our clients tend to be emerging and fast-growing companies that are looking for a single-point of contact for their high-level legal needs. They are led by enlightened business executives who recognize that the right lawyer can not only provide great legal advice, but also act as a strategic business advisor, negotiator, and advocate to help companies grow and expand. While some are looking for investors, others already have significant private equity capital invested; in either case, GCWest helps them navigate their path along the business life cycle, particularly during the growth and expansion phase.

If you do not have a full-time general counsel and find yourself faced with these key challenges:
�Knowing what legal issues to worry about and when;
�Finding and educating the right lawyer for each legal matter;
�Allocating the time to legal matters;
�Ensuring efficient use of outside counsel;
�Building internal legal capabilities; and/or
�Budgeting for legal expenditures;
then you may be a good candidate for becoming a client of GCWest.

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Charities	Bridge of Life - DaVita Medical Missions


Graduate Degrees	JD - Columbia University MBA - Northwestern - Kellogg


College Degrees	BA, University of Illinois

Westlake Village - Attorney

Specialties: General Counsel Services