GC Counsel files Colorado mechanic's liens for contractors and Colorado evictions for landlords — both on published flat-fee scopes. The contracts, claims, and payment work surrounding those filings is what we do the rest of the day.
Lien Practice Eviction PracticeColorado mechanic's liens and Colorado evictions both fail in the same way: a procedural step gets skipped, a deadline gets missed, and a defensible claim turns into a lost one. We handle both on published flat-fee scope, attorney-handled, with the surrounding contract and payment work running on the same retainer.
Forcible Entry and Detainer representation for Colorado landlords on a published four-stage flat fee. Starts at $950 for the 10-day Demand for Compliance and caps at $4,500 for the full uncontested path through sheriff lockout. You pay each stage only if your tenant forces it.
Mechanic's lien filing for contractors, subs, and suppliers under C.R.S. § 38-22-101 et seq. Notice of Intent through recorded Lien Statement, on flat-fee scope. Typical timeline: 12 to 14 days from intake.
Construction companies face legal exposure every day — in contracts, change orders, pay applications, subcontractor disputes, and close-out. Most don't have in-house counsel. Those that do often have attorneys who don't know a schedule of values from a schedule of work.
GC Counsel is different. Built specifically for contractors: we speak the language, understand the margins, and know what it costs when a dispute goes sideways. As your General Counsel, we serve as a true in-house partner — which means we can advise your company on matters in any state, not just where a courthouse sits.
About GC Counsel PLLC*Wyoming license is currently inactive. GC Counsel is licensed to practice law in Colorado and Arizona. In-house General Counsel advisory services may be provided to clients in any state. For matters requiring court appearances or transactional work in jurisdictions where GC Counsel is not licensed, local counsel will be engaged as needed.
Colorado lien deadlines are short and unforgiving. Originals have four months; subs and suppliers have two. We confirm the deadline, serve the Notice of Intent, and record the Lien Statement — on flat-fee scope. Prompt-payment enforcement runs in parallel.
See the lien practice →Forcible Entry and Detainer for Colorado landlords on flat-fee scope. Demand for Compliance through writ of restitution. Most uncontested matters reach a writ in 14 to 28 days. Honest scope conversion if a tenant answers.
See the eviction practice →We read every contract before you sign it. We identify the provisions that will cost you — and rewrite them. Payment terms, indemnity, dispute resolution, notice requirements, and risk allocation, handled by someone who has been on both sides of these negotiations.
Learn more →From the first scope gap to formal mediation, we help you build the record, send the right notices, and pursue the right strategy. We know when to push and when to settle — and we tell you the truth about both.
Learn more →For companies that need ongoing counsel without a full-time hire. A set number of hours per month covers your contract reviews, day-to-day legal questions, and proactive risk management — predictable cost, senior-level access.
Learn more →Whether you are flowing down a prime contract or writing your own subcontract template, we make sure the terms protect your schedule, your scope, and your right to be paid. Flow-down traps and back-charge provisions get particular attention.
Learn more →GC Counsel uses AI as a genuine productivity tool. That keeps overhead low and turnaround fast. It also means we have built real competency in evaluating, deploying, and integrating AI tools that are actually worth using in a legal and business context.
We can help your company build internal systems for contract management, obligation tracking, deadline alerts, and workflow automation. Not as a technology project — as a business improvement project with a legal foundation. If your team is spending hours on tasks that AI can handle in minutes, we can show you how to close that gap.
The companies that win disputes are the ones whose project managers built the right record months before the dispute started. That is an operations discipline, not a legal one.
We provide training for estimators, project managers, and operations teams on how to read contracts, identify risk provisions, price scope gaps, and document correctly. For smaller companies without in-house counsel, this raises the floor for the entire organization. Your people learn to account for legal risk the way they account for labor and materials — as a line item, not a surprise.
GC Counsel works in close partnership with Simply Spreadsheets, a financial modeling and analysis firm built specifically for small-to-mid-size businesses. Legal strategy and financial analysis regularly need to speak the same language — and on complex matters, having both capabilities coordinated from the start makes a real difference.
Whether a dispute turns on a damages calculation, a reconciliation runs into thousands of line items, or a company needs to build internal financial reporting to support growth or evaluate performance, Simply Spreadsheets brings the analytical infrastructure to match the legal work.
Visit Simply Spreadsheets“Running a small financial firm means contracts, client agreements, and the occasional difficult situation — and I had no idea what I was actually signing half the time. Joe changed that. He doesn’t just mark up a document and send it back; he explains what it means for the business and tells me what I should actually care about. Our engagement agreements are tighter, I understand my exposure, and when something comes up I know exactly who to call. Having real legal counsel in your corner — not a form letter, not a chatbot — makes a real operational difference.”
Erin Onsager — Founder, Simply Spreadsheets
Most contractors don't lose money because they did bad work. They lose it because nobody told them what the contract actually said — or they waited too long once things went wrong.— GC Counsel PLLC
Prime contract review, owner disputes, subcontract management, and risk allocation from pursuit through close-out. We are the GC's GC.
Pass-through liability, lien rights, back-charge defense, and payment enforcement against GCs who use slow-pay as a negotiating tactic.
Contract structure, construction manager agreements, design-build risk, and dispute resolution when your project goes off the rails.
Most small companies operate without legal coverage and get away with it — until they don't. Bet-the-company disputes don't come with advance warning. Neither do missed lien deadlines, defective contracts, or payment disputes that spiral into litigation. The company built from nothing deserves serious legal protection before the crisis hits, not a lawyer scrambling to catch up after it. Every contractor, at every size, deserves a goliath in their corner. GC Counsel is lean by design — no decorated downtown office, no partners billing for their reputation, no associates padding hours to meet a quota. That structure lets us deliver senior-level work at rates that serious construction companies can actually justify. That is what this is built to be.
Our work is structured around fixed fees and unit pricing for defined deliverables. You know what it costs before you authorize it. No clock running while we think, no invoice surprises at month-end. And because we run without the overhead that most firms pass straight to clients — no decorated offices, no layers of staff, no partners billing four figures an hour for work someone else is doing — we can charge what the work is actually worth.
The training, the AI tools, the contract templates — they are designed to raise your team's capability so more routine legal work gets handled internally. That is the goal. A business that runs well legally because your people understand how to protect it, not because they are on the phone with a lawyer every week.
Self-sufficiency does not mean you are on your own. Complex matters, high-stakes disputes, and ad hoc questions are exactly what we are here for. The difference is you call when it counts — armed with context, not starting from zero.
First consultation is on us. Tell us what you're working on and we'll tell you where the risks are.
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