Please do tell us how it all turns out.
Very wise move to turn it all over to the lawyer. He'll know exactly what to do and it will only require a few phone calls, so the bill should be insignificant. And if you use him for business counsel, probably won't even bill you.
I very much doubt that the lawyer in Texas that I had set up my S corp and review all my employment contracts would have billed me for it. Not worth the paperwork to bill for making a few short phone calls.
Sadly, there are a lot of lawyers with a very different attitude. Once I wanted someone to review a real estate purchase and, because I did not then have a lawyer, got bled by an SOB that stretched a 15 minute conversation into 45 minutes engaging in idle chit chat and then billed me for 45 minutes at some obscene hourly rate. I was quite insulted.
That convinced me it is a really good idea to have an established relationship with a good lawyer, so you know who to call, *before* you need to call him. A good lawyer's focus is keeping his clients out of court. When I set up my S corp, I was going to give my wife part ownership. He advised strongly against doing that. Texas is a community property state, so effectively she already had a right to 1/2 and it kept things simple when we later got divorced.
What you want to look for is someone who mostly does general tax and estate planning and business law. Those are the skills you are most likely to need and also the last refuge of the lawyers of good character. If you need something more specialized such as criminal defense or divorce, you let him pick the person. He'll know who is honest and who is a crook. Mine sent me to someone for the divorce work and everything went very smoothly and cost only a few hundred dollars, much of which was filing fees.
Interestingly, in conversations with both, I mentioned my grandfather and a brother of his were both lawyers and that I had intended to go into the law myself, but didn't because by the late 70's the legal profession in the US was over run by crooks. Both of them remarked if they had recognized what wouldhappen to the law they would have chosen a different career. But both are about 10 years older than I and it wasn't yet obvious that things would really go own hill fast once lawyers were allowed to advertise seeking clients when they started law school.
Reg