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Outside General Counsel
Growing companies need legal judgment week to week, not just when something breaks. Outside general counsel puts a lawyer in your corner without the cost of an in-house department.
The Approach
Legal judgment on call, priced like a utility instead of an emergency.
The core of the engagement is contracts: reviewing what customers and vendors send before it is signed, negotiating the terms that matter, and building the templates and playbooks that let your team move fast on everything routine. The cheapest legal work a company ever buys is the contract reviewed before signature.
Beyond the paper, the value is judgment with context. Counsel who already knows your business can answer the Tuesday afternoon question in minutes, spot the issue inside a new deal before it becomes a dispute, and tell you when something genuinely needs a specialist.
And when a matter turns adversarial, the firm’s litigation practice is already in the building. No handoff, no new lawyer learning your business at your expense, and a negotiating posture across the table that reflects it.
What we handle
What the engagement covers.
- Contract review & negotiationCustomer, vendor, and partner agreements, before they bind you.
- MSAs & customer termsThe master agreements and terms of service your revenue runs on.
- Templates & playbooksStandard documents and fallback positions your team can run without us.
- Employment & contractor agreementsOffer letters, restrictive covenants, and contractor terms.
- NDAs & licensingProtecting what is yours in every relationship.
- Risk & compliance reviewsFinding the exposure before the other side, or a regulator, does.
Questions
Before you call.
How is an outside GC engagement structured?
Typically a monthly engagement with a defined scope, or hourly with a written estimate, agreed in writing before work begins. The point is predictability: legal review as an operating cost, not a crisis cost.
Is my company too small for this?
If you are signing contracts, hiring people, or taking on customers of any size, no. The engagement scales to the company; early-stage clients often start with contract review alone.
What happens if a dispute starts?
The litigation practice steps in without a handoff, with counsel who already knows your contracts and your business. That continuity is half the reason clients structure the relationship this way.
Contact
Get counsel in the room before the terms are set
Tell us how your company buys and sells. We will tell you what a right-sized engagement looks like, in writing, before any work begins.
Canton Office
101 Woodland Way, Suite 1C
Canton, GA 30114
Phone: (770) 891-3681
Monday to Friday, 9:00 am to 5:00 pm
Florida office, by appointment:
1831 NW 33rd Street
Oakland Park, FL 33309
Request a consultation
Confidential. No obligation. We respond during business hours, usually the same day.
Corporate and transactional inquiries go directly to Jack Ross. Prefer the phone? Call (770) 891-3681.