Concierge counsel for founders and talent.

    A private-client practice for founders, working artists, and the institutions built to outlast them. You get counsel who already knows the whole file, and an answer inside one business day.

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    Who We Serve

    Counsel that begins
    with who you are.

    These are the clients we’re built for, and our counsel reaches further. Bring us anything; what we don’t handle directly, we place with trusted counsel.

    The Founder

    You’ve raised capital, and every document matters now. Formation to exit — governance, financings, IP, and the transactions in between.

    Founders & Companies

    The Artist

    Your name is the asset. Deals, rights, royalties, and O-1/P visas for performers and creators whose work crosses borders.

    Talent & Entertainment

    The Mission-Driven

    You’re building something meant to outlive you. Formation, governance, and exemption counsel for nonprofits and private foundations.

    Nonprofits & Foundations

    The Ongoing Relationship

    You don’t need a law firm; you need your lawyer. Fixed monthly general-counsel plans with dedicated hours and a direct line.

    The General Counsel Program
    Have a matter outside these areas? Tell us. We’ll handle it or introduce the right counsel.

    AI counsel

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    Counsel that has shipped the software.

    Most lawyers advising on AI have read about it. We have built it: intake systems, review pipelines, the models behind them. So when a client asks whether a vendor’s data terms are acceptable, or whether an AI-drafted contract clause will hold, the answer comes from someone who knows what the tool actually does.

    We write the policy, read the vendor paper, and stay in the room while the tools change.

    Explore AI Legal Consulting
    1. The AI-use policy your team will actually follow
    2. Vendor terms, read before you sign
    3. Who owns the output
    4. A board that can answer for it
    Why Clemenza

    Four things we will
    put in writing.

    Absolute Discretion

    Your matter is discussed with the people who need to know it and no one else. Nothing is announced, published, or used as a reference without your written consent.

    Direct Access

    You reach the attorney doing the work, within one business day. No associate gatekeepers, no voicemail trees.

    Fees Agreed in Writing

    Flat fees and monthly plans, published here and confirmed in writing before work begins. Nobody should learn the cost afterward.

    Built for the Long Relationship

    Many clients have trusted us for a decade or more. By the second year we know your contracts and your plan, and the advice gets faster.

    A periodical from Clemenza Law

    The Private Brief

    Written for the person who has to decide something this week — a founder holding a term sheet, an artist holding a deal, a board holding a policy nobody has opened since incorporation. Each piece answers the version of the question people actually have, rather than the version that indexes well.

    AI Policies for Law Firms: What to Put in Place Before Your Team Uses Generative AI

    Generative AI is already inside most firms, with or without permission. The policies, controls, and training that let a firm capture the efficiency without the headline risk.

    AI & IP · 8 min

    Music Royalties 101: The Rights Behind Every Stream

    Every stream implicates two copyrights and several distinct royalty flows. A working map of composition and recording rights — and where artists most often leave money unclaimed.

    Entertainment · 7 min

    The O-1B Artist Visa: A Practical Guide for Performers and Creators

    The O-1B visa is the primary route for artists of extraordinary ability to work in the United States. What the standard actually requires, what evidence carries weight, and how the process runs.

    Entertainment · 8 min
    The Private Brief

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    Where the work lives

    An engagement that runs over email becomes a search problem by the third month. Every engagement here comes with a private workspace instead — your matters, your documents, your invoices, and a direct line to your attorney, in one place that outlasts anyone’s inbox.

    Everything an engagement includes
    You always know where your matter stands
    A milestone rail for each matter, in plain language rather than docket shorthand, updated as the work moves.
    Your documents live in one place
    A private vault scoped to you. Not an email thread, and not a shared drive with a link that outlives the engagement.
    Signing is tamper-evident
    Documents are rendered and hashed on our server before they reach you, and the signing page shows that hash. If the text changed after it was sent, the system refuses the signature rather than recording it.

    In our clients’ words

    “I used to save up legal questions until they were worth an invoice. Now I just ask. Half of what Anthony does for us never shows up as a document — it’s the call before the call, the ‘don’t sign that yet.’ Our board treats him as part of the company, because he is.”

    Founder & CEO, technology company, New York · General Counsel

    Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome.

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