Barnhart Law PLC is a niche law firm founded by Constance R. (Connie) Barnhart, Attorney At Law & Managing Member, after 30 years of legal practice at large law firms, including most recently 12½ years as a Partner at the law firm of Holland & Knight LLP. At Barnhart Law PLC she concentrates her legal practice in the area of business law, including corporate, commercial, financial and contracts matters, as well as licensing and internet law matters, for U.S. and international business clients.
Practice Areas
Barnhart Law PLC helps Scandinavian, European, Latin American, and U.S. businesses enter, expand and grow in the U.S. market. We ** help our clients start up, form, and finance business entities; acquire and divest businesses; partner and enter joint ventures; license and distribute technology, software, products and services; handle domain name and internet law issues; and enter into supply agreements, renewable energy project finance and development transactions, and other contracts and business transactions in the USA.
Further detail about the firm’s practice areas and capabilities is found under Practice Areas.
For information about our standard Terms of Engagement, see below.
Clients
The firm’s current clients include Scandinavian, UK, European, Latin American, and U.S. companies in industries including information and communications technology, renewable energy (solar and wind), SMS/ MMS text messaging, internet businesses, health and product safety IT, product manufacturing and distribution, and others. More than 75% of the firm’s clients are Scandinavian companies doing business in the USA.
See more information about the international scope of the firm’s clientele, and the geographic and industry focus areas of our practice.
Big Firm Capabilities at Small Firm Rates & Attention
Based on Ms. Barnhart’s 30 years of practice experience at large law firms, and her working relationships with a network of attorney colleagues, all with big firm experience like hers, practicing in a diverse range of practice areas throughout the U.S., Barnhart Law PLC provides big law firm experience and capabilities at small firm rates and attention.
Outside General Counsel
The firm ** frequently acts as “outside general counsel” to our ** business clients. Serving as part of a client’s team, Ms. Barnhart knows the client’s business, and can be there when needed, without the expensive payroll and benefits costs the client would incur to employ an in-house attorney full time.
Client engagements commence only upon the client’s signing of our written engagement letter with Barnhart Law PLC and deposit of the applicable advance fee deposit retainer in our Attorney IOTA Trust Account. The retainer deposit is held there, and typically applied toward the last billing for a particular matter, or retained as the basis for a continuing client relationship, if so mutually agreed. The engagement is governed by the terms stated in our engagement letter.
Our fees for work performed are billed at Ms. Barnhart’s standard hourly rate, which currently is $350.00 per hour, and as customary, the client is also responsible for disbursements, such as any filing fees or other expenses incurred in connection with the client’s matters. We invoice monthly, or at the conclusion of a matter if sooner, and our invoices are due in full upon receipt.
No Attorney-Client relationship is formed by your reviewing or interacting with this website, by contacting us, or by an initial consultation. Client relationships commence only after signing the engagement letter with Barnhart Law PLC and depositing the applicable retainer in our IOTA Trust Account.
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Community Service
Consistent with Ms. Barnhart’s commitment to client and community service, a part of the firm’s practice focuses on serving socially responsible, sustainable, and community service oriented businesses – primarily in the technology (including information, communication and health/ safety technology) and renewable energy sectors. This includes social enterprise entrepreneurs and companies in the emerging “Fourth Sector.” For news and updates on the emerging Fourth Sector, please see our PublicPurposeBusinessLaw/ Fourth Sector & Social Enterprise Blog.
Ms. Barnhart also serves the community through Care-Help LLC, a Fourth Sector/ Social Enterprise company she formed, which founded and publishes the website HelpingYouCare™, dedicated to serving as a comprehensive resource to help seniors and family caregivers in the expanding family caregiving challenge we all face as the Baby Boom Generation approaches its senior years and increasingly serve as family caregivers for our parents and senior loved ones.
See more information under “Community Service” in the navigation menu above.
Constance R. (“Connie”) Barnhart, Attorney At Law and Managing Member, founded Barnhart Law PLC in March, 2009, after practicing law for more than 30 years at large law firms, most recently 12½ years as a Partner at the law firm of Holland & Knight LLP.
More detail about Ms. Barnhart’s background and experience is found in her attorney profile and under Experience.
She founded Barnhart Law PLC in order to continue providing to her U.S. and international clients the same service they received at a large law firm, but at the lower billing rate and greater flexibility for individualized service and personal attention permitted by a niche firm with lower overhead.
For specialized assistance in complementary areas, such as tax, regulatory advice, and other areas, when required in the transactions she handles, Ms. Barnhart brings in and continues to work with her network of former partners and colleagues of many years, on an as needed basis.
For further information on Ms. Barnhart’s network of attorney colleagues and as-needed team-of-colleagues approach, which enables us to offer the capabilities of a large law firm without the overhead and costs, see Attorney/ Network.
