Once a business reaches a certain size, one-off legal help stops being enough.
And a full-time hire isn’t the right answer yet either.
Pat Smith Law provides fractional general counsel and outside general counsel services for companies in Thornton and the Denver metro area, offering senior-level legal judgment at a fixed monthly rate, without the cost or commitment of a full-time hire.
I’ve served as general counsel to several corporations, both on the East Coast and here in the Denver metro area. This is what that experience is built for: not one-off contract review, but the ongoing legal infrastructure a growing company actually needs. Internal controls. Policy and procedure. Getting departments that don’t naturally talk to each other onto the same page. Counseling HR through the situations that don’t have a template. Internal agreements, non-disclosure agreements, and the day-to-day judgment calls that come up when you have someone who already knows your business, instead of starting from zero every time.
Fractional general counsel gives you a virtual office down the hall. It’s the question about a contract that just landed on your desk, answered before end of day. It’s your project manager’s crisis about a subcontractor who didn’t show up on a critical deadline, handled by someone who already knows your business and can be on the phone with your team that same afternoon.
A full-time general counsel typically runs $15,000 a month or more once you include salary, benefits, and payroll burden, and that’s the low end. Fractional general counsel gets you the same senior judgment, dedicated time every month, at a fraction of that.
Rates are fixed and agreed to upfront. If your business has reached the point where it makes more sense to have someone on retainer than to call every time something comes up, let’s talk about what that would look like.
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