Cost Effective Legal Solutions

How The General Counsel Works

We provide full and part-time senior level general counsel attorneys who work on-site at our client’s office as a member of their management team. We believe our clients are best served by having an experienced general counsel maintain regular, in-house contact. To provide the greatest value a general counsel has to be intimately aware of all aspects of the business – sales, marketing, IT, finance, HR, etc.

Benefits of having a retained counsel on-site compared to the outside services offered by a traditional hourly-rate law firm, include:

  • Frees up the time of senior management or the business owner to focus on the core operations of the company.
  • Better able to assess strengths and opportunities as the company grows and changes;
  • Reduced cost of legal services;
  • Add value by preventing legal difficulties up front, rather than resolving them after they have arisen.
  • Ability to be on-hand to attend and participate in meetings of the executive management team and the Board of Directors, empowering her or him to provide advice on issues as they arise.
  • Working relationships with all members of the management team, not just one primary contact;
  • Better able to understand the culture of the company;
  • Better able to understand the business challenges facing the organization;
  • More opportunity and greater insight in helping to develop key business strategies while mitigating legal risk; and
  • Provide CEO and CFO with a much broader range of feedback and guidance on the organization

For larger corporations that already have an in-house legal department, The General Counsel provides a flexible and ready extension of their existing in-house capacity. The General Counsel provides cost effective legal solutions, ranging from dealing with those nagging, smaller problems that never seem to come to the top of an expanding workload, to handling highly specialized projects that require specialized expertise. Our attorneys have the experience of working in the corporate environment and understand how to be effective extensions of the existing legal team.