Legal insight
A DC-licensed attorney with experience spanning business, intellectual-property, and compliance matters.
Our firm
Experience with purpose.
Guidance with perspective.
The Strategy Counsel brings legal insight and practical business thinking to the work of building, protecting, and growing organizations.
The Strategy Counsel
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Business perspective
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Thoughtful counsel. Practical direction.Purposeful partnership
Meet Attorney Nekima HillThe Strategy Counsel
Meet your strategic partner
Attorney Nekima Hill
Learn how experience, purpose, and a passion for service shaped her commitment to helping organizations build lasting success together.
DC-licensed attorneyIRS Enrolled Agent
Her work connects funding readiness, business strategy, compliance, visibility, and intellectual-property protection.
Book a discovery callThe perspective behind the practice
Professional experience.
Practical understanding.
Attorney Hill’s background connects legal analysis, tax, and organizational strategy to the realities of building and operating a business.
Tax perspective
An IRS Enrolled Agent whose consulting background includes PwC and Deloitte.
Organizational focus
Support for entrepreneurs, nonprofits, and mission-driven leaders connecting their plans to practical next steps.
Our mission
Build for today.
Position for tomorrow.
Our mission is to help businesses and nonprofits become fundable, visible, compliant, and positioned for sustainable long-term growth and success.
Every organization arrives with a different starting point. The first step is understanding yours.
Our missionThe Strategy Counsel
Watch. Consider. Take the next step.
The story behind the work.
Experience, purpose, and a commitment to helping organizations move forward.
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My story
Learn about the person behind the practice through an original introduction from Attorney Hill.
A question to consider
Watch the personal welcomeWhat qualities are you looking for in a professional partner?
My storyThe Strategy Counsel
A broader view of your organization
Important decisions rarely belong to one category.
A new business may need strategic direction and brand protection. A nonprofit may need governance work before pursuing funding. We help connect the questions.
See the relationships
Consider how structure, operations, visibility, and protection influence the decision in front of you.
Start with the priority
Identify the immediate need before expanding the scope of work.
Keep the engagement clear
Legal representation and non-legal advisory support are distinct and must be appropriately scoped.
How we approach the work
Thoughtful analysis. Practical communication.
Professional support should help you understand the decision, not leave you with a more complicated set of questions.
Context before recommendations
Your stage, resources, leadership structure, and goals shape the conversation.
A shared understanding
Discuss what the work involves, the information needed, and where responsibilities sit.
Direction you can use
Connect the agreed support to the next decisions your organization needs to make.
Your starting point
Bring the work you are building.
The firm works with founders, businesses, nonprofits, and mission-driven leaders with different needs and different definitions of progress.
An idea or an early-stage organization
Explore the questions around your concept, structure, audience, and first priorities.
An established organization
Discuss the operations, compliance, protection, or growth questions that need attention.
Our approach
A clear path.
A considered next move.
Begin with a conversation. Understand the need. Agree on a strategy. Move into a clearly defined engagement.
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Consultation
Talk through your goals and the support you’re looking for.
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Intake
Provide the information needed to understand your organization and situation.
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Strategy
Clarify the priorities, scope, and next steps together.
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Start
Begin the agreed work after the engagement has been accepted.
Let’s move forward