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TKA Law Firm

We put Wall Street knowledge to work for you.® Fractional general counsel for companies scaling toward investment, partnership, and exit. Attorney advertising.

Business transactions and IP. TKA Law Firm is a business transactions and intellectual property practice serving companies as they scale toward investment, partnership, and exit. The firm operates as fractional general counsel, sized to the company, handling the contracts, intellectual property, and day-to-day legal questions that keep a business moving. The work is preventive and transactional: s

tructuring deals, negotiating commercial agreements, and protecting brands upstream of the problem. Core areas include mergers and acquisitions, venture capital financing, commercial contracts, entity structuring and governance, and trademark and brand protection. Founder Shakera Thompson brings Big Law experience trained on Wall Street transactions to companies that want that caliber of judgment without a full-time legal department. This page is for general information and does not constitute legal advice or create an attorney-client relationship. Prior results do not guarantee similar outcomes.

09/01/2026

A customer can ask an AI system to achieve an outcome without choosing every act the system takes to get there.

That distinction can matter when a customer agreement makes the customer responsible for its “instructions.” If the product chooses intermediate steps and then takes an external action without the customer choosing each intermediate step, the fact that the customer started the task may not answer who selected the conduct that matters.

The legal judgment is who the agreement can fairly treat as choosing that act, based on what the customer directed, what the product decided, and what conduct came from provider performance.

TKA Law Firm provides fractional general counsel to companies negotiating AI-enabled commercial agreements where automated discretion is part of product performance.

General information only, not legal advice.

08/28/2026

Best Lawyers recognitions are based on peer review, which gives this announcement particular meaning for TKA Law Firm.

Founder and Principal Attorney Shakera Thompson has been recognized in the 2027 edition of Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch® in America for Intellectual Property Law. We are pleased to see her work recognized again by fellow members of the profession.

Congratulations to Shakera and the other attorneys recognized this year.

08/25/2026

A paying customer stops providing an approval the agreement requires. Work stalls. The customer may be in breach.

That still does not necessarily give the company a right to stop performing.

The legal question is whether the noncooperation is serious enough to change the company’s own obligations. If the breach does not cross that threshold, treating any breach as a reason to suspend or end performance can shift contractual risk back to the company.

TKA Law Firm provides fractional general counsel to companies determining whether continued performance, suspension, or a path toward termination is the defensible position before the company acts.

General information only, not legal advice.

08/18/2026

A customer pays late. The company accepts it. The same thing continues for two years.

New leadership may look at the written due date and treat enforcing it as a simple correction. The customer may point to the practice it relied on when structuring staffing, pricing, or other commitments.

Most commercial agreements say that failing to enforce a term does not waive it. That protection matters, but it is not absolute.

TKA Law Firm provides fractional general counsel to companies determining what they may still require and what changing course may cost. Consider that analysis before sending the correction. More on our website.

General information only, not legal advice.

08/11/2026

Planning to sign an agreement later is not necessarily the same as conditioning the deal on that signature.

The difference can matter when commercial negotiations are happening by email. The parties may still be discussing the formal agreement while also confirming terms, approving work, accepting payment, or otherwise acting as though the business deal is settled.

The legal analysis looks at the exchange as a whole. A phrase such as “subject to contract” can be relevant, but so can the terms already accepted, the terms still unresolved, how clearly signature was made a condition, and what the parties did in the meantime.

TKA Law Firm provides fractional general counsel to companies negotiating commercial agreements, including the legal judgment required to distinguish a deal reserved for signature from one that may already have moved beyond negotiation.

Consider that question before performance begins under terms still expected to be documented later. More on our website.

General information only, not legal advice.

08/04/2026

Technical access to existing customer data and contractual permission for a new use are separate questions.

A company may already have the data needed for a new analytics, automation, or AI-enabled feature. That does not determine whether the customer agreement permits the company to use the data for benchmarking, system training, recommendations, or improvement across customers.

The legal decision is whether each proposed use remains part of delivering the service as purchased or changes the commercial bargain by expanding company control or shifting risk. That determines whether the existing agreement supports the feature or whether the company needs a different contract or product path.

TKA Law Firm provides fractional general counsel to companies making that decision before the new use becomes part of the product. Consider a new-data-use review before development depends on the data. More on our website.

General information only, not legal advice.

07/29/2026

Two agreements can have the same price and leave the company with very different leverage.

Version one delivers everything, then waits on net payment.

Version two sequences the deal: payment before work, objective milestones, payment before the next delivery stage, then final access.

The second version creates decision points before all value has moved to the customer. This is especially important to consider when entering a new geographic market.

TKA Law Firm provides fractional general counsel to companies adapting customer agreements for new markets. The legal judgment is which protections remain usable where the counterparty sits, not only whether the template contains them.

Consider this review before reusing a template. More on our website.

General information only, not legal advice.

07/21/2026

A partner-branded offer can combine company know-how, partner branding, and custom implementation work before either side has decided what it may reuse elsewhere.

The customer may see one product. Legally, the arrangement may contain several assets. The company’s core product may stay company-owned. The partner’s marks and branded wrapper may stay partner-owned. A custom adaptation may call for ownership in some cases and a license in others.

The legal work is choosing an allocation that fits the commercial model. Work created together does not necessarily make joint ownership the strongest answer, and broad partner access does not need to become a right to reuse the company’s know-how in another offer.

TKA Law Firm provides fractional general counsel to companies structuring white-label and channel agreements across business transactions and IP. Consider this analysis before the partner creates or sells the branded offer. More on our website.

General information only, not legal advice.

07/15/2026

Early contractor work has a way of becoming the base for everything that comes after it. The process a contractor built in year one can end up training new hires, supporting sales, and running customer delivery.

At that point, the legal question is bigger than whether the original invoice was paid. It becomes whether the agreement transferred ownership or only granted a license, how far that license reaches, whether the contractor's own pre-existing materials are embedded inside the work, and whether what employees add later counts as derivative of what the contractor created.

Those answers are legal judgment calls, and they matter most before more of the company is built on top of the system.

TKA Law Firm provides fractional general counsel to companies expanding headcount around contractor-created systems, reading the legal position across business transactions and IP. More on our website.

General information only, not legal advice.

07/07/2026

A silent owner who has not worked in the business for months can become the person a financing or sale suddenly needs.

Ending the contribution does not necessarily end the stake. The governing documents may still give that owner votes, consent rights, or a required signature.

The legal work is not listing those rights. It is judging which ones actually bite and what they are worth under transaction pressure.

TKA Law Firm provides fractional general counsel to companies addressing inactive-owner equity before a financing or sale, with Wall Street transactions experience applied to the governing documents, negotiation leverage, and closing path. Pricing that position before a counterparty asks about it can preserve more options. More on our website.

General information only, not legal advice.

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