California business and civil litigation, in the same firm.
Same attorneys draft the contracts and litigate the disputes when they break. The drafting is sharper because we have seen what fails in court — and the litigation is faster because we know what should have been in writing.
Most California business owners get the same advice from two different firms — and the two pieces of advice contradict each other.
The firm that drafted your operating agreement says everything will be fine. The firm you call when it isn't fine says, the operating agreement is the problem.
Both firms are right about half the time. Neither has any incentive to admit it.
Why the firm exists
Think Legal was built to do both jobs in the same place. Same attorneys draft the contracts and litigate the disputes when they break. The drafting is sharper because we have seen what fails in court. The litigation is faster because we know what should have been in writing.
That sounds obvious. In California it isn't. Most firms specialize in one or the other and refer the rest out — usually to firms that bill more, take longer, and never see the original transactional file.
What we do
Two practice domains, one firm:
Transactional
California LLC formation, multi-member operating agreements, buy-sell agreements, contract drafting and review, employment counseling, and outside general counsel for California companies. Flat-fee + costs. Scope on the engagement letter.
Civil litigation
Business disputes, breach of contract, partner and member disputes, judgment enforcement, civil litigation defense. Phase-priced — pre-filing assessment, pleadings, motion practice, trial prep, trial — each phase scoped and priced separately so the matter never runs an open-ended hourly meter.
How we engage
Two principles run through every matter:
Senior-led representation. Taylor Darcy handles the matter. There is no associate-staffing model where a junior associate runs your case and you discover that on the bill.
The number you saw is the number you pay. Flat fees and phase fees are written down before the work starts. No surprise bills, no scope creep, no rounded-up sixths-of-an-hour.
Details on engagement, retainers, and pass-through costs are on the Fees & engagement page.
Who runs it
Think Legal is a California professional law corporation founded in 2017 by Taylor E. Darcy, JD/MBA. California State Bar No. 317674. Recognized by Super Lawyers as a Rising Star, 2019–2023.
Taylor's full background is on the attorney bio page.
What we won't do
A few things we'll tell you on the discovery call rather than after a retainer:
- We don't take cases outside California. We're licensed in California and counsel California-headquartered companies on multistate questions, but we don't appear in courts elsewhere.
- We don't take matters where flat-fee scoping isn't honest — usually because facts are still evolving. In those cases we'll quote a pre-filing assessment phase first.
- We don't take fear-based marketing engagements. If you're shopping a 'cease-and-desist that scares them off' that doesn't actually have legal merit, that's not us.
- We don't take matters from a position of obvious conflict, even if a creative entity-structure could paper over it.
The first conversation
Litigation matters use the case-evaluation form so we can run conflicts before you share anything confidential. Transactional matters start with a short discovery call.
Either way, the first conversation is candid. We'll tell you whether the matter is one we can take and whether you actually need a lawyer for it.
Tell us what you're facing. We'll tell you what's actually next.
Litigation matters use the case-evaluation form so we can run conflicts before you share anything confidential. Transactional matters start with a short discovery call.