What is a "General Counsel"?
A salaried attorney who manages risk, who hopefully does not
impede revenue unnecessarily as the "point" of business is
revenue generation, not risk avoidance.
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What should a General Counsel do?
A GC should have certain work performed in-house and other work
performed by a specialist - similar to how a primary care physician should
operate.
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Why hire a General Counsel?
To make sure your counsel is intimately familiar with your company as
you'll never remember to tell your counsel everything and your counsel
will never ask you all the right questions. Also, a general counsel
is supposed to save you money by reducing legal fees.
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What should a General Counsel know?
The GC should have broad experience, be competent in many areas
of the law and know when to bring in a specialist. Technology GCs need
to be well versed in intellectual property.
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How can Carter Allen be your "outside" GC?
1. Up to 1 hour per week of "off-the-top-of-the-head"
knowledge for 1 year is included in many bundled packages.
2. Our fixed fee, no surprises pricing aligns our interests
with your interests.
3. We have an extensive network of attorneys and firms that we
work with as necessary that the client always has access to
the right expertise. We are not married to the attorney down the hall. So, we can (like a GC would) bring in the appropriate attorney or law firm for each matter.
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