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Business Contract Lawyer for Long Island Companies
Handshake deals, five-year-old templates, and agreements nobody ever signed. If that sounds like your paperwork, you're running a good business on a bad foundation.
Agreements That Hold Up When It Counts
As a business contract lawyer serving Long Island companies, Shari drafts, reviews, and negotiates the agreements your business runs on, as part of the firm's business law practice. Strong contracts set expectations, define responsibilities, and protect against disputes. Weak ones sit quietly in a drawer until the day they cost you real money.
Most of the businesses that call us aren't starting from zero. They're running on agreements that were fine once: a template downloaded years ago, a vendor deal done over the phone, an operating agreement that still names a partner who left in 2019. The paperwork didn't keep up with the business, and nobody notices until there's a dispute.
A contract review closes those gaps before they open. You'll know exactly what you're signing, what you're owed, and what happens if the other side doesn't hold up their end.
Signs Your Contracts Need a Look
- Your operating agreement doesn't match how the business actually runs today
- Key deals with vendors or clients were never put in writing
- Your client contract is a template you found online
- A partner or employee left and the paperwork never changed
- You're not sure what your non-compete or confidentiality terms actually cover
The Agreements Every Business Runs On
Pick an agreement to see what it does, and what tends to go wrong without one.
What It Does
Defines ownership percentages, duties, profit sharing, decision rights, and exit strategies between co-owners, including the buy-sell terms that control what happens when someone leaves.
Without One
Every partnership dispute we litigate starts here. No agreement means New York's default rules decide, and a falling-out can put the whole company in court, or put you in business with a former partner's heirs.
What It Does
Governs how your LLC actually runs: capital contributions, voting, distributions, what happens when a member exits, and who can bind the company.
Without One
New York requires LLCs to adopt a written operating agreement, and banks, lenders, and buyers will ask for it. An outdated one is nearly as risky as none, because it locks in rules the business outgrew.
What It Does
Locks in delivery obligations, payment terms, warranties, and remedies with the vendors your operation depends on.
Without One
When a supplier fails to deliver or a customer won't pay, a phone-call deal leaves you arguing about what was promised instead of enforcing what was written.
What It Does
Clarifies roles, compensation, confidentiality, and non-compete provisions, drafted to be enforceable under New York's rules rather than copied from another state's form.
Without One
A departing employee can walk out with your client list and your pricing, and an overbroad template non-compete may be worth nothing when you try to enforce it.
What It Does
Sets pricing, timelines, deliverables, and what happens when scope changes, so every client relationship starts with the same clear rules.
Without One
Scope creep, unpaid invoices, and "that's not what we agreed to" conversations. The client contract is usually the difference between a collections letter that works and one that doesn't.
What It Does
Protects landlords and tenants in commercial space: rent terms, maintenance responsibilities, renewal options, and personal guaranty limits.
Without One
Commercial leases don't get the consumer protections residential tenants have. Signing without review can mean personally guaranteeing years of rent for a location that didn't work out. Our commercial real estate team reviews these before you sign.
How We Work on Your Agreements
Every contract is customized to your deal, your risk, and your industry. No recycled boilerplate, and no document you can't understand after we explain it.
Drafting From Scratch
New agreements written for your specific deal under New York law, in language both sides can actually follow.
Contract Review
Before you sign anything, we flag the terms that hurt you, the ones that are missing, and the ones the other side hopes you won't notice.
Negotiation
We push back on one-sided terms so the final agreement protects your interests, not just theirs.
Updating Old Agreements
Businesses change. We bring your operating agreements, client contracts, and employment terms up to date with how you run today.
Enforcement
When the other side breaches, we send the demand, negotiate the resolution, or take it to court through our commercial litigation practice.
Buy-Sell & Exit Terms
The agreements that control what happens when an owner leaves, drafted hand in hand with your succession plan.
Your Accountant and Your Attorney Do Different Jobs
We hear it all the time, and it's half right. Your accountant manages the numbers: taxes, books, payroll, and financial strategy. What an accountant doesn't do is draft the legal agreements behind those numbers, or stand up in court when one of them gets broken.
The two work best together. Your accountant might tell you the entity structure should change or that a buy-out needs certain tax treatment. We write the documents that make it legally real, and we regularly coordinate directly with clients' accountants so nothing falls between the two chairs.
If your accountant has been telling you for years to get your agreements in order, this is the call they meant.
"Cynthia Park attorney is great. She is great in communication and she made this deal happen when it was falling apart. It was a pleasure working with Cynthia."
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Read all 34 five-star reviewsBusiness Contracts FAQ
A lawyer checks that the terms are enforceable under New York law, fair to your side, and aligned with your goals. Most bad contracts don't fail because of what's in them. They fail because of what was left out.
Sometimes, for a while. The problem is that generic templates aren't written for New York law or your specific deal, and the gaps only show up when something goes wrong. A template that saved you a few hundred dollars can cost far more in a dispute.
Yes, for different work. Your accountant manages the numbers: taxes, books, and financial strategy. A business attorney drafts and enforces the legal agreements behind those numbers. The two work together, and we regularly coordinate with clients' accountants on entity and succession questions.
We can negotiate a resolution or take the matter to court to enforce your rights. Because we handle both contracts and commercial litigation, the attorney who reviews your agreement is the same one prepared to enforce it.
Yes. We prepare operating agreements, client contracts, and partnership agreements for new businesses so disputes get prevented on day one instead of litigated in year three.
When Was the Last Time Anyone Read Your Contracts?
If the honest answer is "when we signed them," bring them to a free consultation. We'll tell you what still protects you, what doesn't, and what's missing entirely.
Get Contracts That Protect Your Business
Fill out the form or call the office. Bring your existing agreements if you have them. Shari will tell you in plain English where you're covered and where you're exposed.
- Free initial consultation
- Drafting, review, and enforcement by the same attorney
- Serving Deer Park, Suffolk County, Nassau County, and all of New York State
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