Fractional Chief Legal Officer and Consulting General Counsel

Services

On-Site Part-Time; On-Call Full-Time


General counsel on retainer

Representative Services:

  • Business/Legal risk assessment and mitigation

  • Strategic advice

  • Corporate governance

  • Routine legal services

  • Managing (and focusing) outside counsel

  • Litigation management

  • Providing practical solutions to business and legal challenges.

Results:

  • Reduce business/legal risk

  • Reduce outside counsel costs

  • Provide peace of mind


Acquired company integration

 Representative Services:

  • Assess industry and company-specific legal risks

  • With other executives, prioritize and plan remediation

  • Implement remediation plan

  • Develop and implement delegated authorities policy and other significant policies and procedures

  • Develop forms, processes, and training


Results:

  • Improve operational efficiency and reduce risks

  • Measurable, auditable and sustainable


Project management
 

Representative Services and Examples:

  • Project examples:

    • Manage (and focus) outside counsel defending the company against lawsuits

    • Preparing for major event (acquisition, disposition, restructuring)

  • Work with outside counsel to coordinate discovery responses

  • Manage due diligence data room

  • Respond to RFIs

Results:

  • Free up CEO, CFO and COO time

  • Reduce outside counsel costs and obtain better outcome

FEES:

Part-time general counsel services are billed on a monthly retainer basis for a defined scope of work. Nancy also offers services on an hourly rate, flat fee or project based billing for a defined scope of services. Fees will be mutually agreed upon and hourly rates will be substantially less than rates charged by attorneys of similar experience at a traditional law firm. Compensation will be documented in a retainer agreement. New clients may be requested to provide a retainer, which must be paid upfront.