5 Times to Call Your Fractional General Counsel for Support

Most CEOs and business owners understand the legal reasons for having a Fractional General Counsel on their team. 

Contract negotiations, business disputes, and proactive legal strategy are all perks of having consistent legal support in your business. 

But there are actually quite a few unexpected and surprising ways you can benefit from having a business attorney in your back pocket. The truth is, we do a lot more than just the standard legal procedures with our ongoing Fractional General Counsel clients. 

And today, we’re pulling back the curtain and taking you on a little behind-the-scenes journey to see why we’re the first ones our clients call when the proverbial ish hits the fan. 

Your Fractional General Counsel should be your first call

When we step into your business as your Fractional General Counsel, you get the immediate benefit of having an attorney who knows the ins and outs of your business and can jump in to help as needed. 

When your large corporate client demands you sign their contract (instead of using your own), we’re here to review the contract and request any revisions needed to protect your interests in the agreement. 

This access gives you more leverage in a situation where you’re outsized, and negates the stress of signing contracts you don’t understand that might not protect your interests.. 

You have on-demand access to your Fractional General Counsel, because we prioritize your business and hold space open for you––even when you don’t know you’re going to need it. 

But what about all the other risk management and business operations questions and challenges that pop up in any business?

We’re here to help with those, too! 

Our clients know to call us when they run into a roadblock or aren’t sure what to do next, even when it’s not an explicitly “legal” situation. As business experts, we’re excellent at:

• Talking you through challenging situations.
• Presenting possible solutions.
• Connecting you with the right professionals when we’re not in a position to solve your problem. 

We want to be your first call so we can evaluate the situation and help you avoid potentially expensive or time-consuming disasters.

5 surprising ways we can support you and your business

There’s honestly no limit to what we can help with as your Fractional General Counsel. 

Just this year, we’ve helped our clients with the following:

1. What to do when a key employee unexpectedly quits. An employee who had been with a client for over 12 years (and had access to everything) decided to leave. The client was concerned this employee was leaving to go to a competitor, but they didn’t have time to deal with it because they were deep into their busiest month. This client called us and asked: “Tell us what to do!”

And we did.

1. One of our clients called us because they do work in their clients’ homes and wanted to post photos and videos of their work to their business social media. They wanted to know what they needed to get from their clients so they could share without running into legal trouble.

In this case, we modified their existing contract (that we had written, so we knew it was solid!) to include a specific clause about social media content. 

1. Another client had a key partnership with a business that objected to language our client was using to market the partnership. This client had made a significant investment in the partnership and needed to know what word(s) they could use in their marketing to distinguish them from competitors to recoup that investment.

We gave them a workable alternative that they loved. 

1. A manufacturing company needed to renegotiate terms with its investors to address changes in its business and industry since the investors had come on board.

Here we wrote a contract amending the original investment terms to meet the current needs of the client.

1. A client called us when they were negotiating a deal with a Fortune50 company and weren’t confident in the procedure.

We had them introduce Kliebert Law as their General Counsel so they knew our client had legal support and were serious about the proposed work. 

What can having Fractional General Counsel do for your business?

Want the ease and confidence of having your own business attorney just one call away?

We would love to see how we can support your business needs and help you proactively solve your problems, even when they fall outside the scope of typical “legal” services. 

At Kliebert Law, we’re intentional and passionate about building long-term relationships with our clients. 

We take your business as seriously as our own, and we pride ourselves on our ability to learn the ins and outs of your industry, organization, and clients so we can seamlessly support your decisions and provide the legal, risk management, and operational direction you deserve.