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Why Padilla Law
Padilla Law is a next-generation law firm dedicated to helping entrepreneurs, small business and those that invest in them to navigate legal needs. We combine advanced technology with experience and know-how to provide superior legal services at reasonable costs.
We recognize that technology is changing the nature of a law firm practice. The law firm has now carefully and responsibly integrated artificial intelligence into the practice by using LegalMente AI to stay at the forefront of legal technology to ensure efficient and effective solutions for our clients.
Our commitment to innovation sets us apart from conventional law firms.
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Capabilities
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Business Formation and Structuring
Set up your business correctly the first time. Experience to put the right legal structures in place.
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Startups
Entrepreneurs need an attorney who understands that time is of the essence and with the experience and patience to help your business grow quickly. In negotiations, he knows how to get the best deals for scrappy small businesses looking to maximize limited resources.
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Angel Investors & Venture Capital Funds
Point out risks and negotiate solutions for VC funds, angel investors in various industries. Can also assist portfolio companies, and help with fund formation.
Immigration Legal Services Capabilities
Comprehensive legal representation to U.S. businesses hiring foreign professionals and executives and managers and foreign entrepreneurs moving to the US with their business ideas
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International Corporate
Advise foreign companies establishing, maintaining, and growing their presence in the United States. Having visited over 60 countries and speaking 5 languages, José Padilla has unique experience that facilitates international business, and he has negotiated cross-border contracts.
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Commercial Contracts
Solid contracts are the foundation of any business transaction. We can review and help negotiate contracts with customers and vendors, as well as create templates of contracts used on regular basis.
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Mergers & Acquisitions
Experienced with structuring, negotiating, and executing the sale or purchase of a business, as well as joint ventures. We advise from due diligence, letters of intent through to negotiation and closing on definitive agreements.
Web3/Blockchain
Padilla Law believes in the disruptive nature of blockchain technology and in supporting those helping to bring this innovation forward. With regulations in flux, it is important to have a legal expert at your side. From company formation to financing to contract review, we can help. Our clients include investors and startups.
Artificial Intelligence
Not only do we use AI, but we provide legal services to AI companies. The Firm helps AI technology businesses and those businesses that use AI to navigate contracts, terms of service, and other legal issues.
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Gaming Law & Fantasy Sports
Padilla Law has experience helping to apply for gaming licenses, drafting sweepstakes rules, and reviewing gaming transactions contracts, and also previously taught a course on gaming transactions at UNLV’s law school.
Cybersecurity
With San Antonio as the center of the U.S. military’s cybersecurity force, we help companies focused on this area, as well as helping to draft privacy policies for companies in various industries.
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Healthcare
Experience in almost every aspect of the health care industry, from physician practices to hospital systems, urgent care centers, freestanding ERs, imaging centers, nursing homes, hospices, pharmacies and more. He guides clients through transactions and compliance issues, as well as providing regulatory advice.
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Outside General Counsel
Handle day to day legal needs, which includes commercial leases, equipment leases, employment contracts, severance agreements, non-disclosure agreements and general regulatory advice.
AI Capabilities from LegalMente AI™
At Padilla Law, we use the cutting-edge AI technology offered by LegalMente AI, the One Stop AI Legal Shop. Their technology includes the following:
RedFlag Detection™ Technology
Quickly reads and analyzes contracts to identify potential issues based on a patent pending AI model based on how an attorney actually reviews a contract.
Para™, the company’s AI Paralegal™
Answers legal questions, analyzes various documents, and assists with business formation, providing reliable support.
Multi-language Support
Offers AI tools in multiple languages, making our services accessible to an international client base.
Client Trust and AI
LegalMente AI is a part of Meta’s Open Loop program for AI trust and risk management, reflecting the company’s commitment to responsible AI use.
“Well, I don't know as I want a lawyer to tell me what I cannot do. I hire him to tell how to do what I want to do.”
About Us
About Padilla Law
José M. Padilla worked at top law firms out of Silicon Valley and New York City, and then worked at companies hiring top law firms.
While at law firms, he was frustrated that his speed and efficiency meant a lower chance to get a bonus based on billing more hours.
While in-house, he became frustrated at the lack of responsiveness and high rates of outside law firms.
Thus, he founded Padilla Law PLLC to provide top quality legal services efficiently and responsively.
He has a background and has recruited team members with unique sets of skills that make Padilla Law PLLC a one-of-a-kind law firm with the capabilities to help clients succeed, including expertise in mergers & acquisitions, venture capital investments, healthcare, gaming and cryptocurrency.
Mission
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Core Principles
Our firm’s success is rooted in our core principles.
Integrity
Many can say they are honest, trustworthy and ethical, but José M. Padilla has lived a life with the personal policy to never cheat or exploit anyone. The firm is run on the Kantian principle to “always treat people as ends in themselves, never merely as a means to one’s own ends.”
Excellence
We commit to the highest standards of performance on behalf of our clients. We are not perfect but we strive to deliver outstanding results in everything we do and to improve when we do not. With national experience, we hold ourselves to national standards.
Value
As a business law firm, we help our clients to balance legal risk and value in a rational manner to drive business goals. In short, we use reason to understand facts and arrive at logical conclusions to legal issues. Sometimes, instead of spending thousands in legal fees, a problem can be solved with a $6 check.
Clients*
Don’t take our words only. Hear others too.
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*Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome.
Representative Clients:
Meet Our Attorneys
Years Of Experience
We bring each client a combination of deep industry knowledge and expert perspectives from other industries on the challenge at stake, to offer our clients fresh perspectives and breakthrough business insights.
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Irene Oswald
Associate | New York
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Harry Walker
Of Counsel | New York
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Emma Stone
Associate | New York
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Martin Williams
Of Counsel | New York