Senior legal judgment integrated into the business without a full-time legal department.
Ongoing counsel for privately held companies that need continuity, direct access and experienced legal involvement in significant decisions.
Fractional general counsel is ongoing legal judgment, not simply outsourced contract review.
The value comes from continuity: understanding the company, its owners, its risk tolerance and the decisions that repeatedly come across management's desk.
Van Williamson serves as fractional general counsel to select privately held companies that need senior legal involvement on a recurring basis but do not need, or do not want to build, a full-time internal legal department.
The role can be structured around a defined monthly scope, recurring availability, transaction oversight, or a broader relationship in which management has direct access to experienced legal counsel as issues arise.
Representative scope
- Strategic legal advice to owners and senior management
- Negotiation of significant contracts and transactions
- Governance and ownership issues
- Risk assessment and decision support
- Transaction planning and oversight
- Coordination of specialized outside counsel
- Dispute avoidance and early issue management
- Legal review of major business initiatives
For the right company, the relationship is less about having a lawyer on call and more about having legal judgment inside the decision-making process.