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When to Hire a Fractional General Counsel

The signs that your business has reached the point where ad-hoc advice is no longer enough.

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Growth·4 min read

The tell-tale signs

You are signing contracts without review. Legal questions are piling up. A dispute has caught you by surprise. Decisions with legal consequences are being made without advice. Any of these suggests you have outgrown ad-hoc support.

The right moment

The right time to bring in a fractional general counsel is before something goes wrong — when the business is growing fast and the legal risk is rising but a full-time hire still does not make sense.

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