Business & healthcare organizations · Chicago
AI governance, privacy, HIPAA, employment-based immigration, commercial contracts, commercial real estate and closings, and cannabis startup and operational compliance, from counsel with fifteen years of legal experience, including in-house leadership roles building these programs from scratch.
A briefing, not a sales call: leave with an honest picture of your gaps, whether or not you hire us.
Response within one business day. A written governance report every month. A quarterly business review. The value is never invisible.
Services
Every service has a clear pricing model, monthly retainer, fixed-scope project, or bundle, quoted in writing before work begins.
Monthly retainer
Your fractional privacy and AI-governance officer: AI system inventory, risk assessments under NIST AI RMF and ISO 42001, working policies, and continuous monitoring of state AI and privacy laws.
Retainer or project
HIPAA Security Rule 2026 readiness, risk analysis, BAA inventory and remediation, incident response, and OCR preparedness, plus MSO/PC structures and clinical-practice compliance.
Quoted in writing by stage
For founders, physicians, researchers, and key talent: we start with an honest strategy memo, which category, what evidence, and what the odds look like, before you spend on a full petition.
Project-based
MSAs, SOWs, SaaS agreements, DPAs, and BAAs, reviewed and negotiated with a memo explaining every position, so your team learns with each contract. We turn illusory vendor promises into enforceable service levels.
Project or closing
Counsel for commercial leases, acquisitions, sales, due diligence, and closings, coordinating the legal documents with the business that will actually occupy, finance, buy, or sell the property.
Startup and operations
Counsel for cannabis businesses from application and licensing through buildout and day-to-day operations, with contracts and controls designed around the applicable regulatory framework and real operating risk.
Bundle quoted in writing
For dentists, physicians, pharmacists, and other health professionals opening a practice: the right entity under Illinois corporate-practice rules (MSO/PC structure where it applies), owner agreements, and a day-one compliance package: HIPAA, vendor BAAs, workforce policies, and your first compliance calendar. A free 6-month check-in is included.
For IDFPR-licensed professionals
Dedicated pages with your profession’s governing law, briefing-grade FAQs, and downloadable checklists.
225 ILCS 25
Formation, DSO/MSO structures, associate agreements, HIPAA, biometric timeclocks.
225 ILCS 60 · 805 ILCS 15
Medical corporations, corporate-practice doctrine, MSOs, AI scribes.
225 ILCS 15 · P.A. 104-0054
The WOPR AI-therapy law, Confidentiality Act, group-practice structures.
All IDFPR professions
The same formation-plus-compliance practice, under each profession’s own act.
Cannabis businesses & operators
Choose the state and operating context that applies to the business.
410 ILCS 705 · Illinois
Applications, licensing, social equity, seed-to-sale, construction, contracts, labor and employment, health and safety, transport, physical security, transactions, and operational compliance.
Mo. Const. Art. XIV · Missouri
Licensing, microbusinesses, conversion, construction, contracts, labor and employment, health and safety, transport, security, seed-to-sale, transactions, and operational compliance under Article XIV.
Engagement models
For a business, transparency means knowing the problem we are solving, the deliverables you will receive, the fee model that applies, and what could change the budget. We confirm all of that in writing before work begins.
Recurring budget for ongoing counsel
Best for privacy, AI, HIPAA, regulatory compliance, and fractional-GC work where continuity matters more than a single task.
Defined deliverable, defined fee
The quote identifies deliverables, assumptions, exclusions, third-party costs, and any milestone that could require new approval.
For work that cannot be honestly predicted
We use hourly billing when genuine uncertainty would make a fixed fee artificial. Even then, we set budget and communication expectations at the outset.
Founding Counsel · AIGP, CIPP/US, CHC, CHPC, CCEP
Fifteen years of legal experience: in-house general counsel and privacy officer for multi-site healthcare organizations under MSO/PC structures, and in-house general counsel, chief compliance officer, and corporate secretary for multi-state, vertically integrated medical and adult-use cannabis start-ups. J.D. with a Health Law Certificate, Saint Louis University; bachelor’s degree in economics, University of Iowa; Sustainability Strategies to Transform Your Business certificate, Stanford Graduate School of Business. Licensed in Illinois and Missouri.
The in-house difference
Most firms tell you what the law requires. We’ve had to implement it, on a limited budget, with skeptical staff, under real audits. That’s why every deliverable arrives ready to operate: policies staff can actually follow, calendars a manager can run, and a monthly report your board can read in five minutes.
And because regulatory monitoring is the product, you never learn about a new state AI law from the news; you learn about it from our report, with a plan attached.
Contact
Your most valuable currency is control of your calendar: pick a time directly, or send the form and we’ll respond within one business day.
A few sentences is all we need for now. After a conflicts check, we'll send a fuller questionnaire if your matter calls for one.
Office
2248 W Foster Ave, Chicago, IL 60625
Format
Video or in person. We’re glad to sign your NDA before the briefing.
Hours
Monday–Friday, 9am–5pm, By Appointment. Response within one business day.