About the firm
The firm built on Good, Good Counsel.
Schneidman Law exists to give business owners counsel that is as good in character as it is in competence.
The two goods are deliberate. Competence is the work being right. Character is the advice being honest, including the parts nobody asked about. Most firms can claim the first. This one is built to be measured on both. What Good, Good Counsel means
That standard is not a slogan sitting on top of the firm. It decides how the firm is structured, what work it takes, how it bills, and how many clients it will carry at once. The rest of this page is what it looks like in practice.
Andrew R. Schneidman, Founder & Principal
What the standard looks like in the work.
Timing
It decides when we get involved.
Counsel that arrives after a decision is just explanation. The firm is built to be in the conversation while contracts are still being negotiated and the outcome can still change, which is also the point at which legal problems are cheapest to solve.
Billing
It decides how we bill.
A clock between a business and its lawyer means owners sit on questions until they turn into problems. Ongoing clients pay a flat monthly fee so that calling never costs anything extra. Why we don't bill by the hour
Capacity
It decides how many clients we take.
Advice is only as good as the understanding behind it, and understanding a business takes real time. The firm stays deliberately small so the counsel stays specific. Who we take on
Honesty
It decides what you hear.
Honest counsel runs both ways. Most of the time it sounds like this is fine, that clause is not worth the fight, sign it and get back to running your business. Occasionally it sounds like stop, this one matters. The job is to get you to a good decision quickly, not to find problems.
What the firm does.
Four kinds of work make up most of what comes through the door.
Outside general counsel
Ongoing legal support for businesses that need a lawyer regularly but do not need one on payroll. One monthly fee, and you call as often as the business calls for it.
Learn more→02Business acquisitions and sales
Buy-side and sell-side work on deals in the $1M to $20M range, from letter of intent through closing and the parts nobody warns you about afterward.
Learn more→03Real estate
Commercial and residential transactions, purchase and sale agreements, leases, and the negotiation that happens between contract and closing.
Learn more→04Construction
Owner side and contractor side. Prime contracts and subcontracts, GMP and design-build agreements, change orders, payment disputes, and lien documentation.
Learn more→Beyond those four, the firm regularly handles entity formation and operating agreements, ownership and partner structuring, commercial leasing, vendor and customer contract programs, and employment agreements. If your question does not fit neatly into a category, ask anyway. Most of them do not.
How working with the firm actually works.
Most clients come in one of two ways.
Ongoing counsel
A flat monthly fee covers day to day legal work and access. There are three levels, set by how involved the firm needs to be, not by hours logged. No timer, no minimum, and no invoice you did not see coming.
Project work
A single transaction, quoted flat before anything starts. An acquisition, a building, a contract that matters. Plenty of clients start here and move to ongoing counsel later, and plenty do not, which is fine.
Either way the engagement gets scoped honestly. If a matter is smaller than it looks, the firm says so. If it is bigger, the firm says that too, before the work begins rather than in a later invoice.
Who the firm is built for.
Founder-led businesses, roughly $1M to $20M in revenue, with real contracts, real relationships, and real exposure, but no in-house lawyer. Usually the owner has been through a few hourly engagements and did not love the experience.
The common thread is not industry. It is an owner who wants a lawyer that knows the business, the people in it, and where it is trying to go. See if you’re a fit
Where the firm practices.
Schneidman Law is rooted in Franklin, Tennessee, serving Middle Tennessee, and trusted by clients across the country.
Office
99 E Main St, Ste 200Franklin, TN 37064
Who you will be working with.
Every matter is handled by Andrew R. Schneidman. Not passed down to an associate, not routed through an intake team. The lawyer you talk to in the first conversation is the lawyer who does the work.
Andrew spent years as general counsel inside a large construction and real estate development company before starting the firm. That is where the habit came from. He was not called in after decisions to explain them, he was in the room while they were being made, and the firm was built to give small businesses the same thing.
Andrew R. Schneidman, Esq. is licensed in New Jersey and authorized to practice in Tennessee (License Pending).
The next step is a conversation.
A short call about your business, what is in front of you, and whether this firm is the right one for it.