About BLM
Every CEO deserves peace of mind on legal risk, not just Fortune 500 CEOs.
BLM is a business consulting company, not a law firm.
Our Story
For years, George Brunt was the executive Fortune 500 companies relied on to manage legal, government relations, and their outside law firms. He saw what that role really gives a CEO: peace of mind that someone experienced has their back on legal risk. And he saw how few smaller companies can afford it.
After retiring, he asked a simple question: how could growing companies get that same experience and judgment, at a fraction of the cost of a full-time hire?
That's Business Legal Management. Along the way, George also founded and built multi-million-dollar companies as CEO, so BLM's clients get a builder's perspective too.
BLM has grown by word of mouth since 2012. It is a Texas limited liability company headquartered at 100 Crescent Court in Dallas.
Founder
George Brunt
Principal Consultant and Founder
- Experience: Over 40 years of business and legal experience advising large and small companies.
- Principal Consultant and Founder, Business Legal Management LLC, 2007–present
- Owner of Paul Mitchell schools, since 2004
- Of Counsel, Greenberg Traurig, 2005–2007
- Executive Vice President and General Counsel, Alcatel Inc. / DSC Communications, 1995–2004
- Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary, Quotron Systems Inc., a division of Citibank, 1988–1995
- Vice President and General Counsel, ITT Information Systems, Qume Corporation, 1983–1988
- Companies founded or built as CEO: Controldocs.com (now iControl ESI) and PBW Holdings Inc.
- Education: Executive MBA, Quantic School of Business and Technology (2025); J.D., Pepperdine University School of Law (1977); B.S., Brigham Young University (1974).
George Brunt served as Senior Vice President and General Counsel at four Fortune 500 companies: ITT, Citicorp, DSC Communications, and Alcatel.
The Fortune 500 companies George served operated in about 160 countries, and he has directed the work of lawyers in many of them.
In each role, he was a member of the business management team, responsible for legal, development, and government relations. He led in-house legal departments ranging from 6 to 600 attorneys and directed work by many of the world's largest law firms.
He also served as Of Counsel to Greenberg Traurig, an international law firm, from 2005 to 2007.
After retiring from corporate life, George founded and built multi-million-dollar companies as CEO. He started BLM to give growing companies the kind of senior executive he once was, at a fraction of the cost.
George is an attorney. Admitted to the State Bar of California in 1977 (active) and the State Bar of Texas in 2003. He is also admitted to practice before the Supreme Court of the United States (2001).
Areas of focus: International companies entering the U.S., technology and telecommunications, life sciences and diagnostics, government relations.
Principal Consultants
Each BLM Principal Consultant has a senior executive background similar to George's.
Joseph Wadsworth
Principal Consultant
Particular expertise helping Japanese companies do business in the U.S. and U.S. companies do business in Japan. He speaks fluent Japanese. Nearly 25 years guiding companies through international expansion, especially between the U.S. and Asia. As North Asia Regional President for a major multinational, he managed business growth and legal affairs in Japan and Korea.
Areas of focus: Japanese companies entering the U.S. and U.S. companies entering Japan (fluent Japanese); broader international expansion across Asia, including Korea.
A serial entrepreneur and co-founder of Business Legal Management. He has held executive roles at multimillion-dollar global companies.
John J. Kendrick Jr.
Principal Consultant
Nearly half a century as a lawyer in private practice and as a business owner, with experience in banking and financial institutions, real estate, litigation, corporate, and securities work for major private and publicly held corporations.
Areas of focus: Banking and financial institutions, real estate, corporate and securities matters, litigation, and regulatory and operating issues across many industries.
He built and managed a multimillion-dollar bank and has helped develop a number of other successful businesses.
Gregory McConnell
Principal Consultant
Over 30 years providing strategic business consulting and government relations services before state and local governments for a wide range of businesses. A member of the District of Columbia Bar.
Areas of focus: Government relations, economic development, and policies that encourage business growth, residential and commercial development, and job creation.
He also supports nonprofit organizations that work with business interests on employment and job training. His insights on economic development and building successful communities have been featured in major news outlets and broadcast media.
Our Values
Plain talk.
We tell you what we see, in language a CEO can use.
Business first.
Every recommendation has to make sense for the business.
Fair price.
You pay for the senior judgment you need, not a full-time salary.
Transparency.
You'll know what we're doing, who is doing it, and what it costs before the work starts.
Clear boundaries.
BLM is a consulting company, not your lawyers. Our executives manage your legal function by working with your own counsel or the Embedded Legal Team from Business Law Group LLP. Legal advice comes from those lawyers, and we keep the two roles clearly separate.