Your innovative business deserves innovative counsel.

Reiser Legal | PLLC is a business law practice focusing on green business, construction & green building and alcoholic beverage business law.

Reiser Legal gives you a better lawyer relationship with more efficient results. Communication is the key to good legal counsel, so we employ secure technology
that keeps you connected and engaged with your legal matter at all times.
Maximized efficiency and less overhead means less hoop-jumping and lower fees
for you as a client.

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The Builders Counsel

    Brewery Law


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      What We Do


      Educate

      Learn about your legal dilemma by reading our extensive legal blogs on construction and alcoholic beverage law. Sometimes you need a lawyer and sometimes you don't. Our information resources can help you get started.


      Pick Your Fee

      We work for you - and that means on your budget. Create a budget and we will work within it. You may continue on an hourly fee, a flat fee, or a monthly subscription plan. Whatever works for you - works for us.


      Collaborate

      You're a valuable part of your finished product. Our office uses efficient, easily accessible technology to communicate with you 24/7, allowing you to share your ideas and keep a second eye on our progress, if you want it.

      Services

      Green Business

      You are building greener, more efficient buildings, businesses and projects. We respect that contribution by providing greener, more efficient legal services. Remote access, electronic collaboration and purely electronic communication (no paper!) is what you will find at Reiser Legal PLLC. Let us help you build and operate your business smartly.

      Get Started

      Formation, Fundraising and Organization

      Operate Effectively

      Operational Agreements, Bylaws, Non-Competition and Employee Agreements and Manuals

      Stay Safe

      Safety Manuals, Regulations, Workers Compensation, and Unemployment

      Build or Cash Out

      Mergers, Share Purchases, Interest Redemptions, Asset and Business Sales and Acquisitions

      Resolve Your Dispute

      Mediation, Arbitration and Litigation services for business


      Construction & Green Building

      Smart builders need smart builders counsel. Our green building and construction law blog, Builders Counsel, is authored by a LEED AP attorney and it educates builders on managing legal risks. Reiser Legal PLLC knows that you aim to meet the highest standards, so the office is equipped with knowledge of modern building codes and green building certification standards and construction codes. Let us help you become a smart builder.

      Run Your Business

      Formation, Operational Agreements, Licensing and Sales, Purchases and Acquisitions

      Manage Your Risks

      Employee Manuals, Construction Agreements, Subcontractor/Vendor Agreements and Workers Compensation

      Secure Your Payment

      Liens, Public Claims, Construction Books, Surety law

      Get Certified

      LEED and Other Certification counseling, Green Building Organization Setup, and Credit Compliance

      Resolve Your Dispute

      Mediation, Arbitration and Litigation for payment, liability and defect actions


      Alcoholic Beverage

      Today's industry keeps growing, so grow with it. Breweries, wineries, distillers and beverage outlets are faced with a myriad of difficult regulatory obligations - let us help tackle those encumbrances. Reiser Legal PLLC understands the federal, state and local regulations that impact your business, the importance of your branding and intellectual property, and pathways to distributing your products. Let us help you get brewing.

      Run Your Business

      Formation, Fundraising, Operational Agreements and Sales and Purchase

      Get Licensed

      TTB and LCB Licensing and Local Business Regulation

      Get Brewing

      Equipment Purchases, Warranties, Alternating Proprietorships, and Leases

      Package & Sell

      Labeling Design, COLA Submissions, and Distribution Agreements

      Your Counsel

      Douglas S. Reiser, Attorney & LEED AP

      Doug is a business attorney and LEED Accredited Professional focusing on green building, construction and alcoholic beverage law. He has experience in the legal arenas of New York, Cleveland, New Orleans, and Seattle, providing services to both private firms and government entities. He is a former member of Wolfe Law Group, LLC, and in 2010, opened Reiser Legal PLLC to focus on the everyday needs of businesses.

      His practice aims to serve the modern and future needs of businesses, contractors, builders, designers, architects, managers and alcoholic beverage manufacturers who seek clever risk management, security in maintaining payment and intelligent litigation strategies when such a need becomes apparent. A modern understanding of technology allows him to closely collaborate with clients who want to be a part of their finished legal product.

      Our principal is licensed in the states of Louisiana and Washington. He is an active member of the Washington Bar Association, serving as Chairman of the WSBA Young Lawyers Division's NLE Focus Group and as a member of WSBA's Continuing Legal Education Committee.

      Doug is also a frequent speaker on the topics of construction law, green building and law practice management and technology. He authors the syndicated construction law blog, The Builders Counsel, as well as The Brewery Law Blog. Doug has authored chapters in the 2012 book, Legal Handbook for Architects, Engineers and Contractors Vol. 28, as well as the 2011 book New Developments in Green Construction Law, each published by Thomson Reuters.

      A business owner himself, Doug formerly served as director and general counsel to ZLien.com and currently owns and serves as general counsel for ClaimKit LLC, a construction document management service for the surety, insurance and legal industries.

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