Outside General Counsel
A fractional General Counsel relationship for companies that have outgrown ad hoc outside counsel but do not require a full-time hire.
Crossbridge Law Group serves as a company’s fractional General Counsel, providing senior-level judgment, business-aligned advice, and predictable monthly support across the recurring legal issues a company faces as it scales. As companies handle more routine legal work on their own, the role is increasingly the senior layer: setting priorities, reviewing what the team prepares, and advising on the decisions that carry real consequence.
Each OGC relationship is led by the Principal Attorney, so the context built over the relationship stays with the attorney handling the work. That counsel draws on major law firm training, Wall Street deal-structuring experience at a leading investment bank, and the practical perspective of a former senior in-house counsel at a Fortune 100 company.
Who We Serve
Companies that need a more disciplined legal function (contract escalation, outside counsel coordination, approval workflows, and practical risk triage) but are not yet ready to hire a full-time General Counsel, including those with a legal or contracts manager in place.
Founder-led and owner-managed companies facing increasingly complex contracts, governance, financing, employment, or strategic relationship issues, where legal decisions need to be integrated with business judgment.
Companies approaching a growth, financing, acquisition, succession, or market-expansion inflection point, where recurring legal issues need to be organized before they become transaction, governance, or execution problems.
U.S. subsidiaries and operations of Asian parent companies, particularly Korean and Japanese, that need coordinated U.S. legal support, cross-border alignment with the parent, and a single point of accountability across legal, business, and governance issues.
OGC clients typically include:
Industries served include technology, healthcare and life sciences, finance, manufacturing and distribution, real estate, consumer products, entertainment, and service businesses.
How It Works
OGC engagements are structured as monthly retainers covering a defined scope of recurring legal work. The appropriate retainer level is matched to the company's actual legal posture, including the expected volume, complexity, and cadence of legal needs. The firm is built to deliver senior counsel efficiently. That is what makes a defined monthly scope, rather than open-ended hourly billing, both workable and predictable.
Work outside the agreed OGC scope, including financings, major acquisitions, and other significant matters, is handled through separate scoping and pricing.
Functional Scope
Senior counsel that compounds: context carried from one decision to the next, so each answer is informed by everything that came before. A typical OGC engagement may include some combination of:
Strategic counseling: legal and business judgment on commercial, operational, governance, and risk-management questions as they arise.
Review of internally prepared work: contracts, policies, and documents the company’s team prepares with its own tools, reviewed for risk, market terms, and business fit before signature or release.
Commercial contracts: customer agreements, vendor and supplier contracts, licensing arrangements, partnerships, and strategic commercial arrangements.
Employment and contractor matters: offer letters, separation agreements, independent contractor arrangements, handbook and policy review.
Board and governance support: board and committee materials, written consents, minutes, entity maintenance coordination, and governance hygiene.
Privacy, terms of service, and commercial compliance: practical review of business-facing policies, customer terms, and operational risk areas.
Disputes triage: first-response analysis, demand letter review, and coordination with litigation counsel when needed.
A senior legal function, without the full-time hire.
To discuss an OGC engagement, please get in touch.