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Fractional General Counsel
There’s a moment most growing companies reach where outside counsel on an hourly basis stops being the right model. Not because the lawyers aren’t good — they usually are — but because the relationship is structured wrong. Hourly outside counsel is responsive. What you need is proactive: someone who knows your business well enough to spot the legal issue before it becomes the legal emergency.
A fractional general counsel is a senior lawyer genuinely integrated into your business — attending leadership meetings, understanding your contracts and relationships, knowing your history — available at a retainer cost that makes sense for where you are. The value proposition is institutional knowledge. An outside counsel who learns your business anew with every engagement is operating at a structural disadvantage to someone who already knows your cap table, your material agreements, and the disputes that got settled three years ago.
Services Offered by General Counsel
The work covers contract review and negotiation across all material agreements — with your standard positions, your risk tolerance, and your history already understood. IP portfolio oversight for technology companies. Employment law guidance on the questions that come up constantly at growing companies. Regulatory compliance awareness: staying current on the regulations relevant to your industry and flagging new obligations before they become violations. Board support: ensuring minutes are kept, resolutions are properly documented, and investor rights are tracked.
This model works especially well for technology companies, AI companies, startups, and innovation-driven businesses that have scaled past the point where ad hoc outside counsel is efficient, but haven’t yet reached the size where a full-time GC is the right hire. Engagements are structured as monthly retainers with defined scope, scalable as needs change.
Why DeepLaw Fractional General Counsel?
We work in Texas, DC, Colorado, and California, with affiliated counsel nationally.
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