Business Lawyer.
General Counsel.
Trusted Advisor.
Big Company Legal Experience — Small Firm Service
Curtis Landherr
Landherr Legal, LLC
Experience You Can Trust
With 30 years of sophisticated law firm and in-house corporate legal experience in a wide variety of industries, Curtis has a unique spectrum of experience and skill sets that he can put to work for you and your business. Curtis has the legal firepower and business acumen necessary to add value to your organization, whether you're a Fortune 500 company or a startup.
Tailored To Your Needs
Without the overhead and structure of traditional law firms, Landherr Legal can be nimble and flexible in providing the legal support that works best for your organization and for the right value. From hourly billing arrangements to flat fee Fractional GC and other outside counsel engagements, we can tailor our collaboration with your business. And always with a relentless focus on outstanding customer service and client satisfaction.
Services
Curtis can offer a wide range of services and practice areas to your business. Landherr Legal is designed and equipped to serve as an outside legal department for companies without one, or as an extension of your company’s legal department for larger companies.
As a Fractional Outside GC, Curtis will give you the benefits of dedicated and on-call corporate legal counsel without the expense and overhead of a full GC comp package. No more budgeting for in-house overhead or guessing at the value of hourly legal fees. With a Fractional Outside GC arrangement, you get quality legal support grounded in business expertise when you need it — and at a predictable cost. Perfect for startups or smaller companies who don’t need a full-time legal executive or can’t justify a full GC comp package. And just as important, with Landherr Legal you will get the benefit of a dedicated experienced business lawyer who can become a valuable tool for your business and who will deeply understand your business’s goals, culture, and operations.
Alternatively, Curtis can provide project support — utilizing either an hourly or alternative fee arrangement — in one of the Practice Areas listed below. Let Curtis use his experience to add reinforcement to your current legal team for when your Legal Department has bandwidth gaps or for specialist support.
INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE:
Practice Areas
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Curtis began his career as a commercial litigator with a sophisticated litigation firm and has managed litigation for the last 25 years. He has extensive experience managing big and small litigation, from minor customer escalations to $50M+ lawsuits. With experience gained from countless depositions, dozens of mediations, mock jury exercises, and high stakes settlement negotiations, Curtis is available to assist with your litigation evaluation needs. Curtis is also very effective at pre-litigation “lawyer letters” (claim letters, enforcement letters, cease & desist letters, etc.) because the best way to resolve litigation is to avoid it in the first place.
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There isn’t a type of commercial agreement that Curtis hasn’t drafted, reviewed, or negotiated during his career, including sales agreements, supply chain agreements, transactional agreements, license agreements, leases, marketing agreements, confidentiality agreements, or virtually any other agreement. This extensive experience allows Curtis to be surgical and strategic when reviewing and redlining agreements. Don’t get burned by signing agreements before they are reviewed for critical legal red flags.
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After overseeing the legal aspects of numerous M&A deals over his GC career, including all internal legal direction and support for a recent $225M acquisition of a fast-growing bourbon brand, let Curtis handle or support your M&A needs.
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Curtis has broad expertise to support all aspects of employment law and HR legal issues, including employment law guidance and interpretation, policy and form creation, employee handbooks, progressive discipline guidance, termination issues, hiring issues, HR-related agreements, etc.
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Support for product safety issues, risk assessment, and insurance placement issues.
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Support for all types of sales and marketing needs, including advertising review, trademark name clearance, cease & desist letters, sponsorship and endorsement agreements, etc.
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Landherr Legal can provide turnkey support for critical legal needs associated with launching your startup business and avoiding pitfalls in the process, including entity formation, name and logo clearance issues, equity agreements and other formalizing of founders' roles and responsibilities, employment law issues for startups, key policy formation, etc.
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With experience as both a Board member himself (non-profit and association boards) and as legal counsel supporting public and private company Boards, Curtis can assist with your corporate governance support needs. And Curtis has the foundation and savvy to serve as a compensated Board member to your for-profit organization.
Style and Approach
What sets Curtis apart is his unique approach and his intangibles. Placing a daily focus on outstanding client service, listening, and providing strategic and practical legal advice, Curtis has built a personal brand and successful career centered around partnering with his business colleagues to grow the business and get game-changing results. He’s a skilled lawyer…..but he’s also a business partner.
Curtis emphasizes practicality in his Fractional GC services and other legal support. No over-lawyering or death by redlines. Instead, since Curtis has been a law firm lawyer and an in-house lawyer, as well as a member of several senior leadership teams, he has been in your seat before and knows first-hand what your business and your employees want most from their legal partner. And no matter the issue or challenge facing your organization, Curtis manages to keep his cool, and enjoys maintaining a sense of humor with his colleagues and clients along the way.
“As a general counsel, Curtis is the consummate ‘steady hand at the wheel.’ Whenever Curtis has helped me on legal questions, legal operations challenges, or risk issues, it is instantly clear that his advice is based on deep professional experience and an abiding knowledge of the corporate legal function. He is thoughtful, well-reasoned, and above all, a decent person who treats his business partners with respect.” - Patrick Bottini, General Counsel, Link Snacks, Inc.
“Curtis is an exceptional legal professional whose expertise, judgment, and dedication were invaluable to our company during a period of rapid growth and change. What I appreciate most about Curtis is his ability to remain calm and thoughtful under pressure, offering practical solutions while considering the broader implications of every decision. His contribution to our team was nothing short of exceptional, and I could not have asked for a more reliable or dedicated business partner.” - David J. Colo, longtime Fortune 500 executive and former CEO of MGP Ingredients
