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Five Signs Your Business Needs a General Counsel

A quick checklist to tell whether your business has reached the point where senior legal leadership would pay for itself.

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Growth·3 min read

The five signs

One: you are signing contracts without proper review. Two: legal questions are going unanswered. Three: a dispute or compliance issue has caught you out. Four: decisions are being made without legal input. Five: you cannot remember the last time you felt on top of legal risk.

What to do next

If two or more of those ring true, it is worth a conversation. A fractional general counsel can give you the oversight, protection and senior judgement your business is missing — often for around half the cost of an in-house hire.

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