One phone call. Two kinds of help.
In-house counsel for software companies that can’t justify a full-time lawyer yet, and plain-spoken help for families dealing with divorce, estates, immigration, and the justice system.
Your company’s in-house lawyer, on a fraction of the budget
Years of experience as in-house counsel embedded with the sales teams of growing software companies. We’ve redlined the MSAs, written the playbooks, and closed the deals from the legal side.
- NDAs (mutual & one-way)
- MSAs & SaaS subscription agreements
- Order forms, SOWs & SLAs
- Company formation (DE C-corp, CA LLC)
- SAFEs & convertible notes
- Terms of Service & Privacy Policy
- DPAs, CCPA/CPRA, GDPR, TCPA
- Offer letters, PIIAs, contractor agreements
- Option plans & equity grants
- Reseller, referral & channel agreements
- Trademarks & IP assignment
- Contract playbooks for your sales team
Help for the parts of life that come with paperwork
Divorce, custody, a will, a green card, a notarized signature, or a loved one in custody. Most of it is navigable. We translate the process and do the documents.
- Divorce, paternity, custody & visitation mediation
- Small claims mediation
- Family-law document preparation
- Wills & revocable living trusts
- Advance health care directives
- Durable powers of attorney
- Family-based immigration petitions
- Naturalization & green card renewal
- Mobile notary (Santa Monica & the Westside)
- Alternative sentencing & treatment advocacy
- Record sealing & expungement
- Incarceration support for families
Everything we do
Entity choice, founder agreements, and clean records from day one. Fixing these before a financing costs a multiple of getting them right at the start.
SAFEs, convertible notes, and priced rounds, handled by counsel who has sat on the company side of the table.
Master agreements, subscription terms, order forms, NDAs, and the playbooks that let your sales team handle most of it without a lawyer in the room.
Terms of service, privacy policies, CCPA and GDPR, TCPA and telephony rules. Enough to pass an enterprise security review without hiring a compliance department.
Offer letters, invention assignment, contractor agreements, option plans, handbooks, separations, and trademarks. The paper that follows every hire.
Divorce, paternity, custody, visitation, support, and small claims, resolved with a Los Angeles County certified mediator rather than a courtroom.
Family law, estate, and small claims paperwork, prepared and filed by a registered Los Angeles County legal document preparer.
Wills, revocable living trusts, health care directives, and powers of attorney, drafted so they work when they are needed.
Family petitions, green cards, citizenship, work authorization, and visas for founders and early hires. Attorney-handled, start to finish.
Acknowledgments, jurats, loan signings, estate documents, and apostille coordination across Santa Monica and the Westside, usually same day.
Alternative sentencing, treatment advocacy, in-custody support, record sealing, and reentry. The reason this firm exists.
Call or write. A free first conversation sorts out what you need and who should handle it, even if that is someone else.
David Gable & Associates
David Gable, Esq.
Attorney with years of in-house experience at growing software companies, working alongside their sales teams. Earlier, directed a criminal record sealing program and worked in dependency and criminal court. Knows the justice system from both sides.
Associates
Our associates bring over a decade of certified-paralegal experience in family law, estate planning, immigration, and small claims, along with Los Angeles County mediator certification and legal document preparer registration. They handle divorce, paternity, custody, visitation, and small claims mediation, plus family-law and estate document preparation.
Incarceration doesn’t help anyone. Rehabilitation does.
The firm started with one idea: the difference between jail and treatment can be a single phone call. That part of the practice isn’t going anywhere.
Just give us a call.
Free consultation. If we’re not the right fit, we’ll refer you to someone who is.
Santa Monica, California