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#Equine Legal Solutions - About Us

For clients with specialized needs, ELS drafts customized contracts tailored to individual situations. ELS is proud to offer this service at a fixed price of just $750 (or by the hour, whichever is cheaper), which includes up to two drafts and all attorney consulting time. For clients who have purchased one of ELS’ form contracts and later need customization, ELS is always happy to credit the equine forms purchase price toward the customized equine contract.

Incorporation and LLC Formation

ELS advises its clients to incorporate or form a limited liability company for their businesses. Among other benefits, operating an equine business as a corporation or limited liability company can help protect the business owners’ personal assets from liability. To make the process affordable for its clients, ELS offers incorporation or LLC formation for a fixed price of $1,500, plus expenses.

Attorney Bio

ELS’ founder and owner, Rachel Kosmal McCart, is a graduate of Duke University School of Law with over 15 years of legal experience. Rachel is a member in good standing of the Oregon, Washington, California and New York bars, and is admitted to practice before the U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon. Prior to founding Equine Legal Solutions, Rachel was a corporate lawyer at Donovan, Leisure, Newton Irvine in New York and Cooley Godward, LLP in the San Francisco Bay area. Rachel also served as in-house securities counsel at Silicon Graphics and Intel Corporation .

Rachel grew up on a horse farm in Tipp City, Ohio and competed as a youth rider in nearly every discipline at Appaloosa, Quarter Horse and hunter/jumper shows. To help raise money for their horse show efforts, Rachel and her mother Mary Kosmal bought, retrained and sold horses. As a 10-year member of Miami County Ohio 4-H, Rachel never missed 4-H horse camp, and she had a lot of fun (and learned something, too!) as part of winning horse bowl and judging teams.

Rachel is a member in good standing of the United States Eventing Association. the AQHA Professional Horsemen and the American Paint Horse Association. She and her husband currently own three Paint horses. After earning numerous open and amateur APHA points in almost every event as well as many year-end APHA regional awards in a wide variety of different events, Rachel currently competes in three-day eventing with two of her Paint horses.

Rachel and her husband Erin keep their Paint horses at their home in Beavercreek, Oregon, which is shared by Emmy, a sweet blue merle Australian Shepherd adopted from Aussie Rescue Placement Helpline ; Squawkus, a sassy housecat who lives up to her name; Vivienne and Cassidy, two incomparable Oriental Shorthair cats; and Jordan, Callie and Bee, the barn’s feline rodent patrol. They also have a flock of Black Australorp chickens that they raise for meat and eggs, and an ever-multiplying number of rabbits. Erin and Rachel also grow a large organic garden, supplemented by horse manure.

Speaking Engagements and Events

Rachel McCart regularly speaks on equine legal topics . and has been a guest lecturer at numerous prominent horse industry gatherings, including the American Quarter Horse Association Convention and the California Horse Expo.

Equine Publications

Rachel McCart has written numerous articles published in some of the horse industry’s most prestigious magazines . including the Quarter Horse Journal and the Paint Horse Journal. Rachel is also the author of The Legal Equine . a syndicated blog.

Contact Equine Legal Solutions

Call us toll free (866) 385-2972. You can also email us for more information or to schedule your initial 30-minute legal consultation .