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When to hire a Fractional General Counsel
You need a General Counsel when legal risk is outpacing what your founders or outside counsel can manage alone. These are the signals that it is time to hire.
Fundraising or M&A Activity
Term sheets, due diligence, and deal negotiations require in-house legal judgment, not just outside counsel running up billable hours.
Contract Volume Is Unmanageable
Customer agreements, vendor contracts, and NDAs are piling up and slowing down your sales and operations teams.
Regulatory or Compliance Exposure
Your business touches regulated industries, data privacy, or employment law and you need someone accountable for keeping you compliant.
Board and Investor Pressure
Investors or board members are asking for stronger legal governance and you do not have the internal function to answer those questions.
IP and Equity Needs Protecting
You are building proprietary technology or preparing equity plans and need a legal lead who understands startup IP and cap table mechanics.
The benefits of hiring a Fractional General Counsel
Access senior legal leadership on a flexible engagement model. Get the strategic and operational legal coverage your company needs without the cost or commitment of a full-time hire.
Cost Efficiency
Senior General Counsel expertise without the full-time salary, equity, and benefits package. Pay only for the legal leadership you actually need.
Speed to Hire
Pre-screened candidates ready to engage in as little as 3 days. Skip the months-long search and start getting legal coverage fast.
Pre-Screened Expertise
Every General Counsel in our network is pre-screened by veteran executive recruiters on track record, references, and hands-on in-house leadership experience.
How to hire a Fractional General Counsel
No more juggling job boards and sorting through pools of unqualified applicants. Hiring a Fractional General Counsel is easy with Go Fractional.
Discovery Call
Book a free 20-minute discovery call with one of our executive recruiters to review your goals, needs, and team dynamics.
Meet Experts
Within days, we'll introduce you to a short-list of pre-screened Fractional General Counsel candidates to interview, each pre-screened by veteran executive recruiters before you meet them. Our match success rate is 98%.
Start Work
Finalize contract details with Go Fractional and get working within less than a week of your discovery call.
Engagements that fit how you work
Every Go Fractional engagement is structured for senior leadership without full-time overhead. Start fractional, scale up, or convert to full-time when you’re ready.
Fractional General Counsel
- Senior leadership on a part-time schedule
- Monthly retainer, no recruiting fees
- Scale hours up or down as needs change
Contract-to-Hire
Trial a Fractional General Counsel on a fractional engagement before converting them to a full-time hire.
- Keep the expert's learnings or convert to full-time
- Try the fit before you commit, no hiring risk
- Faster speed to market, conserving time and resources
Interim General Counsel
Full-time coverage for a defined stretch: a leadership gap, a transition, or a critical project.
Fractional General Counsel rates average $243/hr across our live benchmarks. Pricing scales with hours and scope.
General Counsel Hourly RatesFractional vs full-time vs agency
Three ways to get General Counsel leadership, and where each one wins.
| Factor | Go Fractional | Full-time General Counsel | Agency / dev shop |
|---|---|---|---|
| Time to hire | ~3 days | 3–6 months | 1–4 weeks |
| Engagement | Monthly retainer, flexible | Salary + equity + benefits | Project fee + markup |
| Talent level | Senior operators, 12 yrs avg experience | Varies by market and budget | Mixed-seniority delivery teams |
| Scalability | Scale hours up or down monthly | Fixed full-time cost | Rescope and renegotiate contracts |
| Best for | Strategy + leadership, flexibly | Stable long-term scale | Pure build execution |
We’ve helped hundreds of organizations Go Fractional
Twelve years: the average experience across a network of handpicked executives ready to make an impact on day one.
“It was literally three days after he started with us fractionally, Ryan was calling me and asking if we could get a full-time offer out.”
“It's a can't-lose scenario. You either get the learnings from the subject matter expert, or you get the full-time capability. It provided a ton of flexibility, much faster speed to market, and conservation of time and resources.”
“Having someone senior from day one as a founder means you're actually hiring yourself out of a job, not transferring that amount of work to essentially management of someone junior, which can only be as often just as much work or only slightly less work.”
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