Virtual Law Partners, Christopher La Chance

Legal Services Virtual Law Partners (VLP) provides and that I used were corporate (securties and venture capital) legal services. I started a company with other classmates from business school (some are abroad in Asia) and we wanted to start off on the right foot so as we expand, everything has been done correctly. If you go with the big well, known Silicon Valley law firms, they charge $ 800 an hour. And as a start-​up, you don’t want to spend your $ on legal fees but you also don’t want to incorporate online and get started through some hokey online service. So, out of word of mouth, we went to VLP and specifically Chris La Chance. The concept of VLP is that they take the top notch lawyers with the pedigrees from top law schools and very top law firms but because of their structure (no fancy pants office… they work virtually with partners who cover every area of expertise that you would want), you as a client don’t pay nearly the same as you would a top law firm but you get the SAME quality of service. Chris has been our counsel since the beginning and had the resources to reach out to his China resources to work with us as our business model is China/​US. I have super high expectations of quality legal work (believe me… so hard to find) and was actually surprised in a god way. He was very friendly, very knowledgeable, very patient (for some of us this was our first start-​up) and efficient. Extremely efficient (i.e., loaw legal bills!) and responsive and forward looking. We didn’t even know the right questions to ask half the time but he would tell us based on our business, what we would need to look out for in the future and if we made one little tweak here, this would save us time and $ down the road. We have angel investors and they also have been very impressed with his work. I highly highly highly recommend Chris for all the right reasons as a business person!