My RIA Lawyer

My RIA Lawyer

Share

My RIA Lawyer, a division of Shaver Law Group, LLC, helps advisers create the life they want by going independent. We assist advisers who are looking to break away from an independent broker-dealer to establish a fee-only RIA firm or to start a hybrid firm by maintaining an affiliation with an independent broker-dealer. We assist advisers who are already investment adviser representatives but want

05/29/2026

Your CCO probably isn't the problem.
The structure around them is.

Most firms have one person carrying compliance, with a few outsourced consultants and a tech stack layered on top. On paper it looks covered. In practice, no one is holding it together — and the gaps don't surface until an exam or an issue forces them to.

Compliance should not depend on one person's bandwidth, memory, or calendar.

That's not a CCO problem. That's a governance problem.

05/28/2026

Three things most $1B+ RIAs have in place, and what each one actually does:
🔵 A compliance consultant runs your annual review and tells you what they found.
🔵A law firm responds when something goes wrong and tells you what to do.
🔵An integrated compliance partner sits between your CCO, your COO, and your executive team — and makes sure the program is operationally sound before either of the above become necessary.

Most firms we engage with already have the first two.

What they're missing is the third — the structural layer that makes the first two rarely needed.

Want your practice to be the top-listed Law Practice in Alpharetta?
Click here to claim your Sponsored Listing.

Category

Address


44 Milton Avenue, #314
Alpharetta, GA
30009

Opening Hours

Monday 9am - 5pm
Tuesday 9am - 5pm
Wednesday 9am - 5pm
Thursday 9am - 5pm
Friday 9am - 5pm