Service Area
Boards & Governance
Counsel for boards and organizational leaders on authority, governing documents, fiduciary duties, decision processes, and organizational records.
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How we help.
We help boards and leaders define authority, fulfill duties, structure decisions, and maintain defensible organizational records.
Formation and governing documents
Interpret, update, and align articles, bylaws, operating agreements, policies, charters, and reserved powers.
Board and officer authority
Clarify decision rights, signature authority, approval thresholds, officer powers, and authority to bind the organization.
Committees and delegation
Define committee charters, delegated authority, reporting, limits, escalation, and the distinction between recommendation and decision.
Fiduciary duties and conflicts
Advise on duties, disclosures, recusals, independent review, related-party matters, and defensible process.
Board and management roles
Clarify oversight, management responsibility, information flow, accountability, and reserved decisions.
Meetings and executive sessions
Support agendas, notice, quorum, participation, executive sessions, and orderly decision processes.
Minutes, resolutions, and approvals
Create accurate records of action, authority, material process, recusals, consents, and delegated decisions.
Board orientation
Ground directors in governing documents, authority, duties, committees, conflicts, meetings, and decision rights.