Business Counsel

At MNB Meridian Law, our attorneys are small business experts not only as attorneys but as business owners themselves. Our experience has a breadth and depth that comes from making mistakes and creating successes as business owners and from holding positions as inhouse counsel, C-Suite executives, government contractors, senior executive-level and GS government employees, and serving on military active duty and in the reserves.

We know that having the right business structure, understanding the business and tax implications of that decision, and putting good business practices in place in the beginning makes operating your business everyday less stressful. MNB Meridian Law is here to be your partner, not just the lawyer you call when you encounter difficulties. Partnering with us ensures that you begin, continue, build, transfer, or end your business journey with sound guidance and advice.

We help you start with the right business structure. Then we assist with drafting your employee handbooks, employment contracts, client service agreements, and business policies and procedures and reviewing your contracts with your vendors, landlord, and creditors. We help you navigate commercial transactions, insurance, and tax issues. If necessary, we can prosecute a claim or defend against litigation that sometimes comes from doing business.

For small businesses owned by Veterans, we help you get through the service-disabled veteran-owned small business certification process, as well as help you take advantage of the numerous programs, set-aside programs, and Multiple Award Schedules, such as the GSA Schedule, OASIS, VETS, and VECTOR, among others.

Contact Us for Business Counsel

For assistance with starting or running your business, please contact us by calling 215-268-3003 or using the online contact form. With offices in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Alexandria, Virginia, MNB Meridian Law serves clients throughout the United States and around the globe.

What We've Done

Army (Reserve) First Lieutenant Misconduct Filed in the Restricted File

In 2014, an Army First Lieutenant (1LT), married to another Army 1LT (assigned to an OCONUS duty station), engaged in an inappropriate (non-sexual but socially intimate) relationship with the wife of a fellow Army Officer. The 1LT-wife reported her husband and the 1LT-husband was issued a Memorandum of Reprimand (GOMOR) and was honorably discharged…

Former Air Force Airman Punished because of Relationship

An Air Force Security Forces Airman received a General (under honorable conditions) discharge after being implicated through the “rumor mill” as having been a “friend with benefits” to the Airman arrested for leading a drug trafficking ring from within the base’s Security Forces office. MNB Attorneys successfully argued to the Air Force D…

Army Soldier Facing a AR 635-200 Chapter 14-12 Elimination

The Soldier, a former US Marine and current Army Specialist, was facing administrative elimination, for a pattern of misconduct that included falling asleep during a platoon sergeant’s meeting, punching a hole in the wall of his barrack’s room, wearing athletic socks with a logo, being absent (for 30 minutes) from his appointed place of duty, a…

Titling and Retirement

A U.S. Army Reserve prior-enlisted first lieutenant was accused of fraud and taking more than $10,000 in recruiting incentives under G-RAP – the Army National Guard’s illegal recruiting program. The lieutenant was investigated by Army CID, who found “probable cause” to believe he committed fraud. Army CID “shopped” the case to the Army…

Former Army Staff Sergeant and a Poor Line of Duty Investigation

An Army Staff Sergeant was involved in a catastrophic motorcycle accident and was left in a significant reduced cognitive state requiring 24-hour in-home nursing care for the remainder of the Soldier’s life. After a poor line of duty investigation, the Soldier’s command determined the Soldier’s accident was Not in the Line of Duty (NLOD) –…
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