Advising the Small Business: What You Need to Know

Jean L. Batman founded Legal Venture Counsel, Inc. in 2004 to provide outside general counsel services to investors, entrepreneurs, and small businesses. Prior to forming Legal Venture Counsel, Ms. Batman was a partner in the San Francisco offices of an Am Law 100 law firm. As outside general counsel to a variety of companies and individuals, Ms. Batman provides business and financial legal services to privately-held entities operating in a broad range of industries including real estate development, financial and professional services, manufacturing, software, retail, biotechnology/specialty pharmaceutical and high technology. She has written and spoken on a number of topics of interest to the business community, such as choice of entity, venture financing, and finding practical solutions to common legal problems, and has had several books published by the American Bar Association.