Louisiana Business Consultant / Attorney • Louisiana Business Litigation Lawyer

Baton Rouge • Greater New Orleans • North Shore

Jennifer Treadway Morris

Louisiana business and corporate lawyer Jennifer Treadway Morris has served businesses, professional organizations, and insurance companies from Greater Baton Rouge to Greater New Orleans and the North Shore since her admission to the Louisiana Bar in 1994.

As legal counsel for small businesses and professionals, I urge each client to call me before signing a contract, drafting a contract on their own, drafting an employee handbook, or taking any other action that affects their policy or could have serious long-range consequences. Preventive legal advice may be the best investment you, as a businessperson, will ever make.  I provide many small business services which are a valuable part of any business investment.

Contact my Baton Rouge office to arrange a consultation about legal and business services for your business.

I offer businesses from Greater Baton Rouge to greater New Orleans and the North Shore a full range of transactional and litigation services, including:

• Services needed by business start-ups: drafting partnership agreements, articles of incorporation for s-corps or c-corps, shareholder agreements, articles of organization for limited liability companies (LLCs), and member agreements; obtaining required licenses; drafting operating agreements, bylaws, and policy and procedures manuals; management consulting; and commercial real estate leases
• On-going counsel: negotiating, drafting, and reviewing contracts; drafting employee handbooks and policies; advising and drafting documents for reorganization of company, partnership, or corporate structure; trade association formation; handling shareholder meetings; and keeping books and minutes for board of directors’ meetings
• Risk management: 
  • Counseling doctors, lawyers, accountants, and other professionals on preventing errors and omissions liability;
  • Conducting audits for corporate liability prevention to customers or other third parties including premises liability, sexual harassment and discrimination claims, product or service liability
  • Conducting in-house audits to see that companies are in compliance with employment and licensing regulations;
  • Protecting the business structure to promote smooth operation in case of disagreement among partners or board members
  • Conducting contract review for simplified debt collection
• Dispute resolution: skilled and assertive representation of clients involved in negotiations, mediation, arbitration, or trial. An experienced trial lawyer licensed to practice before all Louisiana state and federal courts
• Employment law: review of worker documentation, drafting of employee handbooks, wage and hour compliance, human resource department set up or audit, discrimination and harassment policy compliance, immigration compliance, federal Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) compliance; defense of Workers’ Compensation claims; discrimination and sexual harassment prevention and defense; and other employee issues
• Construction law: involving public works, private works, collections, and construction contracts
• Insurance law: representing self-insured businesses and insurance companies in issues such as insurance defense, insurance coverage disputes, insurance contracts, and insurance regulatory compliance. Long before your company finds itself involved in a dispute, it is important to establish a good relationship with an astute business lawyer.

Greater New Orleans/Greater Baton Rouge Business Attorney
Jennifer Treadway Morris, Attorney
10114 Jefferson Hwy
Baton Rouge, LA 70809
225-324-4235

E-mail me to arrange a consultation.

As a Baton Rouge-based business, insurance law, and estate planning attorney, I serve companies, professional organizations, families, and individuals from the greater Baton Rouge area to the greater New Orleans area and the North Shore, including communities such as Covington, Mandeville, Gonzales, Denham Springs, and Zachary.

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