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GUIDANCE FOR ATTORNEYS
Who Need to Understand Their Clients
And Their Clients' Businesses 

(Even When Their Clients Think They Already Understand)

 

Sigrid Caroline Schroder, JD

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I Know what wakes you up at night,...or will.


Crisis Life-Cycle Management

Caroline assesses clients' businesses and circumstances to forecast and prevent crises, to mitigate and resolve active crises,and to encourage rebound of businesses by breaking the repetitive crisis cycle. Resolution may include business conciliation, neutral evaluation or facilitated negotiation. Her goal is to reduce the frequency and costs of transactional disputes, operational crises, personnel conflicts, and litigation. Through 4Dimensional Assessment (TM) Caroline analyzes your clients' entire circumstances through time, looking back through their business history and forward throughtheir goals. She has particular facility with issues including: intellectual property, employment, executive employment, customer and partner relationships, environment, governance, and real estate.

 

Long-term Strategies

Caroline can help guide strategic planning, development, risk assessment and turnaround. She helps US and foreign clients identify opportunities as well as risks, rationalize business models and business plans, develop products, restructure teams, redirect and broaden talent, and initiate strategic alliances.  She can help realign splintered management and guide turnaround. She has helped clients hone their presentations, identify opportunities and succeed in fundraising.  With degree and background in geology, she understands the earth sciences and landforms critical to your environmental assessments.  She partners with her clients to craft successful long-term business strategies amid the dynamic uncertainties of global regulatory, technological, and economic environments.  

 

Business Guidance from a Legal Perspective

As attorney and counsel, Caroline helps clients organize, clarify, and prioritize both advantages and risks as she helps move opportunities forward and bring problems to resolution.  She helps her clients move quickly and surely into action.  She understands the business and personal challenges which business people, including foreign expatriates, encounter when working and investing in the U.S..  Licensed in D.C. and Texas, she is an active member of the D.C. and American Bar Associations.   Her analyses have been published in the Harvard Business Review and elsewhere.

 CRISIS LIFE-CYCLE MANAGEMENT 

 Concrete Tools

Action Items

Red Flags

 Client Assessment
Business Model Tracking
Prior History - Trends - Operations
Product-Line Vetting

  Business Plan Debugging

Competitive Assessment

Industry Sector Trends

Regulatory Framework - Risks

Organizational Cultures and Teams 

International Contrasts

Science - Law - Technology

When it's hard enough to practice law.
 
Keeping up with business and finance,
organizations, business practices, research, and development can be not just daunting but impossible, especially if counsel has little business background.   I understand how your clients think--and they do not think the way you think.  I can bridge the gap between you and help make the law clear.  I can make the business and the technology make sense to you. 
 
Together we can work through to the real facts and understand your clients' strengths and vulnerabilities.  I can help you keep your clients on track, moving ahead and out of trouble, or help you stem the crisis and turn decline around. 
Sigrid Caroline Schroder, JD.
(877) 462-4035

Pertinent Questions

for

Pertinent Decisions and Strategy

  

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I KNOW WHAT WAKES YOU UP AT NIGHT, . . . OR WILL.

I Find You the Silver Lining—And the Gold.

 

 

 

 

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