Fractional General Counsel

By Trenton Roberts and Andrew Brown. A structured legal audit in the first 90 days of a fractional general counsel engagement finds the problems that are still cheap to fix. The work plan, month by month.

Fractional general counsel provides ongoing outside legal support without a full-time hire. In-house counsel is an employee embedded in the company. Many growing businesses start with fractional GC and later hire in-house as legal volume and complexity increase.

A fractional general counsel (fractional GC) is an outside attorney who provides ongoing legal guidance to a business on a part-time or scoped basis, covering contracts, governance, day-to-day questions, and coordination on transactions, without hiring a full-time in-house counsel.