Fractional General Counsel
Get Back to What You Do Best

A fractional general counsel is an experienced business lawyer who works as part of your leadership team, supporting your legal and risk management at the level you need, and scaling as the business changes. Equinox takes legal projects off your plate and puts them on ours, at a fixed monthly cost.

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Why Fractional

Your Business is Our Business

As a business owner, you make decisions every day that have legal consequences in contracts, employment, and risk management. If you’re like most, you rarely use legal support for everyday needs. Why not?

Because it takes too long, gets too complicated, and is too expensive, plus the result may not even suit your needs. We get that.

To make legal work for you, it must be seamless, quick, relevant, and cost-effective. Equinox takes legal projects off your plate and puts them on ours at a fixed monthly cost, freeing up your team to do their best work. When legal questions come up, they can call us, and it’s all built into a fixed price.

Fixed Fee

Legal work is built into a fixed price, so a question never arrives with a surprise bill.

Phone Calls and Emails

Freedom to ask questions when the fix is easier.

Tailored to Your Industry Needs

Advice that fits how your business and your industry actually work.

Other Projects to Support the Day-to-Day

Get legal and compliance projects off your plate and onto ours.

A fractional general counsel is a generalist who integrates into your leadership team for both strategic risk management and tactical problem solving.

The Mind

Logical qualities: governance, security, and strategic decision-making.

The Body

Physical assets: contracts, assets, and operational execution.

The Spirit

Intangible qualities: vision, values, and how they’re reflected in policies.

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What Working with Us Looks Like

A Month with
Your Fractional General Counsel

We start with a kick-off meeting to agree your project plan and priorities, then work through it with you, with regular check-ins and your team able to reach us along the way. A typical cycle might look like this:

  • Reviewed and negotiated vendor and client contracts
  • Collaborated with insurance on risk planning
  • Updated employee handbook for operational and legal compliance
  • Delivered training on contract basics
  • Advised on a state expansion
  • Adjusted Privacy Policy for new regulations
  • Filed new trademark application

Plus monthly alignment meetings, quarterly legal updates and registered agency services. Each month moves some of these forward.

General Counsel Services

The Right Solution Tailored to You

One general counsel service, tailored to your business. You choose the projects, the timing and the budget, and it is all built into a fixed fee.

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Is It Time?

Signs You’ve Outgrown Hourly Legal Services

Businesses typically move beyond hourly legal help when:

  • Legal questions around hiring, contracts, and compliance are becoming more frequent, and harder to answer internally.
  • Other fractional partners, like HR or finance, are integrated and effective, but legal support feels disconnected.
  • Legal documents are difficult to implement, lacking the clarity or structure needed for real-world use.
  • Legal advice feels generic or misaligned with your business’s operations and goals.
  • Leadership is involved in every legal decision, regardless of priority or relevance.
  • Teams hesitate to raise legal concerns due to confusion or fear of saying the wrong thing.
  • Legal risks are surfaced without prioritization or context, making it difficult to take decisive action.
  • Unexpected invoices make legal support feel like a liability, discouraging early engagement.

These are more than growing pains. They’re signals that the legal function needs to grow with the business.

Legal Health Check

Still Wondering If Fractional General Counsel is Right for Your Business?

The Legal Health Check shows you what you don’t know about your legal foundation, before it costs you.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Questions about Fractional General Counsel

An experienced business lawyer who works as part of your leadership team, supporting your legal and risk management strategically and day-to-day, at the level you need and scalable as the business changes. They help the business be proactive and take the contracts, governance and compliance off your plate.

Hourly help is built around single matters. A fractional general counsel works with you over time, so the advice reflects how your business actually operates, and your team can raise questions early, when solutions are often simpler and less expensive.

Hourly billing is transactional and doesn’t align with a business’s needs. With fixed fee pricing, you get the freedom and confidence to get the right solution and all your questions answered. The fee supports your legal and risk management strategically and day-to-day, at the level you need, and scales as the business changes. We agree the plan and its priorities with you at the start.

Your team can. Human resources, finance, operations and leadership all face legal and compliance questions in their day-to-day work, and they can reach us by phone and email, so those questions come to us early.