Services
How it works
If you believe that your organization might benefit from a fractional legal counsel:
-you may have specific legal or policy needs that you know already, or-I can provide a professional assessment of your legal needs and the services you require. After initial consultation, you select a fractional time level that you require, and the day of the week you want my services, and I will present a draft engagement quote and contract for your consideration.
Essentially, you are hiring a regular in-house legal counsel, just less than full-time. I will attend at the location you choose on the days you have selected and provide legal services, represent your organization in legal matters, and answer both internal and external questions as a professional and executive resource at whatever level of your organization is required. The cost will be consistent period to period, and billed weekly, biweekly, or monthly. As your fractional counsel, I will give you the fundamental legal services you require at a cost and scale that are appropriate for your company.
But having in-house counsel also offers advantages for your business that even outweigh savings in legal fees. I will establish a rapport with key staff in your enterprise, and build bridges with external entities such as regulators, suppliers, industry organizations and others. As a continuing part of your team, I will be a resource in your strategy formation and a pro-active problem solver.
Although as your fractional counsel I can work both on and off-site, it is critical that you and your staff consider me a part of your team. If space permits, I strongly recommend setting up a designated space for me to work during my attendance at your site. I also recommend that you select a title to identify my function at your company, and connect me to your internal services and communications.
What I can do [under construction]
A broad-based background in business law allows me to meet a variety of types of legal needs for fractional clients:
Comprehensive in-house counsel functions
Act as the point of contact for your organization for all legal matters as they arise, ensure that your company's operations fall within all applicable laws and regulations, respond to legal communications and served documents, engage and supervise outside counsel services and accounts, and give prompt legal advice on questions from managers, operating units, and corporate service functions such as HR, facilities, etc.
Legal support for business operations
Contracts and agreements
Develop, negotiate, review and/or draft out-bound and in-bound contracts, trading documentation, service agreements, other corporate contracts
••Commercial Contracts: reviewing, drafting, and advising and giving legal approval on contracts, including sales, supply, services, licensing, manufacturing, development, …
•Commercial Contracts: reviewing, drafting, and advising and giving legal approval on contracts, including sales, supply, services, licensing, manufacturing, development, …•Draft agreements that minimize risks and maximize legal rights
Draft agreements that minimize risks and maximize legal rights• Draft, review, and negotiate customer contracts for products and services, suppliers, partners and others.
• Assist in the development of new efficient contracting templates.
