Outside General Counsel Services

Organizations today operate within complex — and constantly shifting — conditions that challenge their approach to legal and compliance support solutions.

They face pressure to control spending at a time when business matters are more diverse, complex, and regulated. Best legal practices and compliance requirements evolve as fast and unexpectedly as the business itself. However, this demanding business environment presents opportunities for those who properly and efficiently balance operations with effective, value-driven, integral legal and regulatory compliance strategies.

For emerging or small businesses, in-house legal resources may be economically unavailable or distracting. Even for businesses that can afford internal legal resources, all except the largest of them struggle with hiring and turnover, balancing expertise and experience with efficient and empathetic advice and counsel, managing and scaling workload and resources, and staying current on ever-evolving regulatory requirements.

Today’s business organizations need legal support that understands and integrates with their industry and operations, changes with the times, is well trained and current on specialized legal concepts, and can be scaled up or down rapidly, responsively, and strategically, as conditions demand.

Whether your need is for fractional or temporary general counsel support, turn-key outsourcing of your entire legal function, or supplemental resources for your existing staff, Bradley is the ideal outside general counsel services partner for your business or organization.

Bradley’s Outside General Counsel Services team is led by attorneys with extensive outside general counsel experience across multiple disciplines, many of whom have served as general counsel or in senior legal positions at Fortune 500 companies, global public and private businesses, healthcare systems, financial institutions, insurers, private equity firms, and family offices, among others. One of these professionals will align with your operating team to develop a full understanding of your business, industry, and regulatory climate and serve as a primary point of contact, legal advisor, and coordinator of other as-needed Bradley resources based on knowledge and experience. Depending on the circumstances, we can assemble a dedicated, multi-practice client service team that works seamlessly with your business teams to deliver routine legal solutions and tools, including:

  • Risk assessment and legal issue spotting
  • Compliance program, policy, and procedures development
  • Organizational structuring and entity formation
  • Governance management
  • Public and private securities and other regulatory filings and reporting
  • Health, safety, and environmental program and policy creation
  • Contract review and negotiation
  • Human resources support and dispute management
  • Intellectual property protection and prosecution, including portfolio administration
  • Real estate lease negotiation
  • Supply chain and import/export management and contracting
  • Sales and distribution strategy and contracting
  • Government relations
  • Technology transactions and licensing
  • M&A and joint venture strategy, negotiation and documentation
  • Liability protection and litigation/claims management

Bradley provides clients with a dedicated team of one or more experienced attorneys to answer as-needed legal questions — both general commercial and subject-matter-specific — related to routine regulatory, compliance, transactional, or operational matters. Our work is scaled to suit each client's needs:

  • Fractional General Counsel - For clients who need skilled general counsel representation but do not have a full-time in-house attorney
  • Legal Function Outsourcing - A dedicated fractional team of Bradley subject-matter- specific attorneys providing comprehensive legal function support
  • Supplemental Resources - Additional or temporary resources to augment existing legal departments and permanent staff

Our client teams take time to develop a deep understanding of the role legal services play in complementing your unique business needs and challenges. We build real-time, continuous, and holistic relationships with business leaders, serving as key members of your team for legal, governance, and operational compliance advice, and risk assessment.

We provide attractive rate structures and attorney staffing models that are sensible and tailored to each client's needs.

Our Outside General Counsel Services team's experienced skillset carries the same Bradley promise:

  • High-quality work at competitive rates
  • Proactive and responsive service
  • Client-focused and service-minded approach
  • Deep industry experience from decades of in-house counsel roles
  • Scalable resources to match business growth and evolving day-to-day needs
  • Immediate access to transactional, subject-matter specific, and specialized resources
  • No operational distraction for legal resource placement and management
  • Greater depth of experience and capability than may be available through direct hires
  • Access to Bradley’s full suite of research, information, scheduling, matter management, and other systems and software platforms and solutions