CEO Peace of Mind
CEO Peace of Mind. Someone with Fortune 500 judgment has your back on legal risk.
Fortune 500 CEOs rely on a seasoned executive to manage legal risk, spot opportunities, and run the legal function, so they can focus on growing the business. BLM gives you that same peace of mind, with a Fortune 500-caliber senior executive on your management team, at a fraction of the cost of a full-time hire.
Business Legal Management is a business consulting company, not a law firm. Legal services, where offered, are provided by Business Law Group LLP.
Your CFO has your back on the numbers. But who's really managing legal?
You trust your CFO to make sure the financials are correct and competent. You don't check every entry, because someone with experience and judgment is on it.
Legal is different. In many companies, it gets handed to the CFO as part of general risk management. But the CFO isn't trained to manage the legal function. Knowing which risks matter, which law firm to hire, what the work should cost, and when a legal issue is really a business opportunity takes legal-management experience.
Fortune 500 companies solve this with a senior executive responsible for managing the legal function. Like the CFO, that executive doesn't act as the company's lawyer. They work through lawyers: either your company's own counsel (your existing lawyers and law firms) or the Embedded Legal Team from Business Law Group LLP. You choose. But as far as the CEO is concerned, the function is theirs to own.
BLM gives you that executive.
An experienced senior executive with Fortune 500 legal-management experience owns the responsibility, so you get the peace of mind that someone qualified has your back on legal.
You focus on the business. We handle legal risk and opportunity.
You focus on
- Vision
- Teams
- Products
- Innovation
- Sales
We handle
- Identifying and managing legal risk
- Spotting legal and regulatory opportunities
- Managing the legal function and your outside law firms
- Government relations
- Working with your own counsel or the Embedded Legal Team from Business Law Group LLP, whichever you choose, when legal services are needed
That's CEO Peace of Mind: knowing someone experienced is watching legal risk, so your attention goes where only you can put it.
How we make peace of mind affordable
Our founder was paid up to $1M a year as a Fortune 500 senior vice president. With BLM, you get that caliber of executive for a fraction of the cost.
How BLM Works
CEO Peace of Mind is the promise. A flat monthly fee is how we deliver it at a price a growing company can afford.
One senior executive.
A BLM Principal Consultant with Fortune 500 senior executive experience in legal, government relations, and managing outside law firms.
On your management team.
Your Principal Consultant sits with your leadership team and owns responsibility for the legal function, government relations, and outside law firms.
A flat monthly fee.
Instead of carrying the full cost of a senior executive, you pay a flat monthly fee, a fraction of a full-time senior executive's cost. You get Fortune 500-caliber peace of mind at a fraction of the price.
Who It's For
CEOs who want peace of mind on legal risk, without a full-time SVP's salary.
- Founders and CEOs who are making legal, regulatory, and law firm decisions without a seasoned executive beside them.
- Companies spending on outside law firms without anyone senior to direct, manage, and question that spending.
- Businesses that deal with government, such as regulators, agencies, or public contracts, and need someone who knows how those relationships work.
- Leadership teams that want legal risk managed like any other business function.
We work best with growing companies with $5 million to $75 million in revenue and 15 to 250 employees, big enough that legal decisions carry real risk, not yet big enough to justify a full-time senior legal executive. Our Founder program serves earlier companies, from $1 million in revenue, that face a regulatory issue. We focus on life sciences and diagnostics, health and wellness, foreign companies entering the U.S., government-facing businesses, and technology companies handling sensitive data.
Three Ways to Cover Legal Leadership
| Full-time SVP / General Counsel | BLM executive | Ad hoc outside law firms | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Annual cost | Median total pay of about $526K a year for general counsel at private companies under $500M in revenue (BarkerGilmore 2025), before benefits and outside counsel. For reference, George Brunt was paid up to $1M a year in these roles. | Founder: from $2,000/month. Core: $12,000 to $24,000/month, based on revenue. Business Law Group LLP hours included. | Hourly rates plus a retainer. Billed by the matter or hour, and hard to predict |
| Incentive for efficiency | Neutral. Same salary either way. | Flat fee. We bear the cost of inefficiency, so we're rewarded for solving problems fast. | Billed by the hour, so more time means more fees. |
| Seniority | Senior executive | SVP-level, Fortune 500 senior executive background | Varies by matter and firm |
| Sits on your management team | Yes | Yes, as part of your leadership team | No |
| Manages outside law firms | Yes | Yes | No. They are the outside law firm |
| Government relations | Often | Yes | Usually not, or billed separately |
| Knows your business | Deeply | Ongoing relationship with your company | Matter by matter |
| CEO and founder experience | Varies | Yes. BLM principals have founded and built companies | Rarely |
| Best for | Large companies | Growing companies that want senior leadership without a full-time salary | One-off legal matters |
Who gains from efficiency? Law firms do excellent work, but hourly billing means more time on a matter brings more fees, so the model doesn't reward speed. A full-time hire is neutral: the salary is the same either way. BLM charges a flat monthly fee, so we bear the cost of inefficiency. We're rewarded for solving problems quickly and preventing them in the first place.
The comparison is general. Actual costs vary. BLM is a business consulting company, not a law firm. Legal services, where needed, come from Business Law Group LLP or your chosen counsel.
Our Services
Executive Legal Management
CEO Peace of Mind, delivered: an SVP-level executive on your management team, managing your legal function, government relations, and outside law firm relationships, at a fraction of the cost of a full-time hire.
Learn more →Embedded Legal Team
Legal services from Business Law Group LLP, a law firm, coordinated alongside BLM's business consulting.
Learn more →Why BLM
Peace of mind comes from experience and judgment. Here's ours.
You can only stop worrying about legal risk if you trust the person managing it. That trust has to be earned somewhere, and ours was earned at the top of the Fortune 500 and in the CEO's chair.
Fortune 500 leadership.
BLM's founder served as Senior Vice President and General Counsel at ITT, Citicorp, DSC Communications, and Alcatel.
A seat at the business table.
In those roles, he sat on the business management team and was responsible for legal, development, and government relations, not just legal opinions.
Scale.
He led in-house legal departments ranging from 6 to 600 attorneys and managed relationships with many of the world's largest law firms.
Builder's experience.
After retiring from corporate life, he founded and built multi-million-dollar companies as CEO. He knows what it's like to run a growing business, because he has done it.
Every principal brings the same depth.
Each BLM Principal Consultant has a similar senior executive background.
We've been the CEO, too.
We know what a CEO needs from the executive who has their back: no surprises, clear priorities, and problems handled before they reach your desk.
What Clients Say
BLM has grown by word of mouth. Let clients explain it in their own words.
"We are thrilled with the services we receive from Business Legal Management LLC. It is great to have former CEOs as business counselors and we have used the included legal hours with Business Law Group on a regular basis. They have proved invaluable. The team is very responsive and we have been pleased with everything they have done for us."
Donna Waite, Owner
"I have used Business Legal Management LLC at two of my former companies. Business Legal Management services proved invaluable to me as they counseled me on a weekly basis. CEO’s seldom have people with the experience and background of Business Legal Management principal consultants as they face decisions critical to their business. We also used the included hours from Business Law Group and found them to be knowledgeable, timely and cost effective."
Bill Meissner, CEO
"Business Legal Management provided extensive consulting services for my MLM company. Their experience proved of great worth to me. I found their monthly subscription model to be far more cost effective for our business, even as we approached $100M in sales."
Daren Hogge, CEO
"I spent more than 25 years building World Domes into a company that designs and builds storage domes around the world. As a CEO, I needed people around me who understood both business and legal risk. Business Legal Management gave me that: seasoned executives who had managed the legal function for major companies and had run their own businesses too. They helped me think through contracts, international projects and big decisions before they became problems, and the included Business Law Group hours meant the legal work actually got done. I was always satisfied, and working with them gave me real peace of mind."
Mike Hunter, Founder and Emeritus Managing Director, World Domes
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