Practice Areas
At Proactive Law Firm, attorney Catalina helps small businesses in Atlanta handle legal issues with clarity and confidence. As a solo attorney, she offers personalized support and practical advice. Catalina works directly with each client, making sure they get answers that make sense for their business. Whether you’re launching an LLC, hiring your first employees, or planning for long-term growth, you’ll have a trusted Atlanta small business lawyer on your side.
Business Formation
Choosing the right legal structure is a key step when starting a business in Georgia. Catalina helps you form LLCs, corporations, and partnerships and explains the pros and cons of each option. She prepares formation documents, operating agreements, bylaws, and partnership agreements and makes sure your setup protects you and supports your goals.
Compliance and Risk Management
Laws and rules change often. Catalina helps businesses in Atlanta stay up to date. Catalina helps you stay current with Georgia and federal requirements—licensing, corporate governance, data and privacy policies, and industry regulations. She identifies risks early and fixes issues before they grow.
Contracts
Clear contracts prevent problems. Catalina drafts, reviews, and negotiates service agreements, vendor contracts, NDAs, contractor and employment terms, and more. Her focus: plain language, strong protections, and terms that reflect how you actually do business.
Dispute Resolution
When conflicts arise, Catalina works to resolve them quickly and efficiently. She handles contract disputes, partnership disagreements, demand letters, negotiations, and mediations—and is ready to litigate when necessary. The goal is to protect your interests and keep your business moving.
Labor and Employment
Catalina helps Atlanta employers stay compliant and manage teams with confidence. She reviews employment contracts, updates handbooks and policies, and advises on wage and hour, leave (FMLA), accommodations (ADA), and investigations into harassment or discrimination. She also negotiates severance agreements and represents management in union and NLRB matters.
Business Succession Planning
Protect what you’ve built with a plan for ownership and leadership transitions in the event of death or incapacity. Catalina designs practical, step-by-step succession plans so your company can operate without disruption—covering decision-makers, voting rights, buy-sell terms, and emergency authority. She coordinates with your tax and estate advisors to align the plan with your broader goals.
General Counsel for Growing Businesses
As your business grows, new legal questions will come up. Catalina offers ongoing general counsel services—on demand. Get clear, practical guidance for hiring, vendor relationships, compliance updates, contract renewals, and day-to-day decisions.
