Practice Group Leader · Scale LLP
Brian
Elliott,
Strategic counsel for CEOs, general counsel, and enterprises navigating high-stakes transactions, complex disputes, and rapid growth.
Strategic counsel for CEOs, general counsel, and enterprises navigating high-stakes transactions, complex disputes, and rapid growth.
Companies in transition rarely have a legal problem.
They have a legal infrastructure problem.
These situations don’t require another lawyer handling another matter.
They require someone who can diagnose the system, expose the risks the company hasn’t seen yet, and rebuild the legal architecture around where the business is going.
Austin · San Francisco · Nationwide
Brian serves as your primary point of contact into Scale LLP's complete platform.
Counsel that fuels growth - from formation to exit.
From formation to M&A, deals move faster with less friction. Strategies that protect value and capture opportunity at every stage of the business lifecycle.
Advocacy that protects what matters most.
High-stakes disputes and regulatory compliance managed with experience and judgment. Reduced disruption, protected reputations, and strong positions for what comes next.
Protecting innovation, preserving advantage.
IP portfolios and disputes managed as business assets. Protection for innovations and brands with strategic guidance that turns IP into competitive advantage.
In-house judgment. On-demand guidance.
Scale operates as your legal team - embedded, flexible, and responsive. In-house efficiency with full-service capability and experienced counsel without the headcount.
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Brian isn't just a lawyer. He is also a savvy business person. He understands the legal framework as it relates to business decisions, always acting as a voice of reason.
A litigation filing. A contract dispute. A regulatory question. Something bounded and specific that any competent lawyer could handle.
What happens next is different. Because the matter is never the whole story. Inside every engagement is a company whose legal infrastructure either supports where it's going or quietly undermines it. Most lawyers complete the matter and move on. Brian Elliott finishes the matter and tells you what he found.
Identified a seven-figure fraud scheme the company didn't know existed. Resolved it. Then replaced their GC function, led patent litigation, and rebuilt legal operations. Three years. One client.
Called about a U.S. litigation matter. We dismissed it. Then he tested our reaction to a problem another firm had misdiagnosed. We became his GC across multiple jurisdictions and every category of risk.
Criminal investigation. Pandemic shutdowns. Litigation, governance, transactions, creditor exposure. Five years of holding it all without dropping anything. The portfolio survived. The business grew.
Brian practices exclusively with Scale LLP. All engagements are through the firm.