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No babysitting
You are not asking for a memo factory. You need someone who can assess risk, make practical calls, and keep work moving.
The capacity problem
The expensive part is not just the legal work. It is the time it steals from you.
A cheap lawyer who needs ten hours of supervision is not cheap. Fractional InHouse™ works when senior talent can operate independently inside your team.
02
No hourly mystery
Monthly scopes replace the anxiety of sending overflow into a law firm meter and hoping the invoice behaves.
03
No full-time commitment
Use senior talent before the role is big enough, approved enough, or clear enough to hire permanently.
The embedded difference
Operators, not pontificators.
Goodlawyer vets for lawyers who have lived inside businesses and can contribute with judgment, context, and hands-on execution.
- vetted lawyers across the Goodlawyer network
- 750+
- common two-to-three-day monthly anchor
- 64 hrs
- typical entry point for the model
- 30 hrs
Embedded, not outsourced
Your fractional joins the operating rhythm and works from inside the context, not from a disconnected inbox.
Vetted for live-fire judgment
The screen is about how they think through real business situations, not just resume pedigree.
Scale capacity up or down
Add hours for a launch, transaction, backlog, or specialist push, then adjust as the pressure changes.
Meet the lawyers customers actually work with.
16 yrsPearl C.
Fractional General Counsel
Toronto, ON
- Corporate
- Commercial
- Venture capital
15 yrsNofa K.
Technology, SaaS & Privacy Counsel
Toronto, ON
- SaaS
- Data privacy
- Commercial
16 yrsRyan T.
Fractional General Counsel
Cambridge, ON
- Technology
- IP
- Privacy
15 yrsRebecca H.
Fractional Commercial Counsel
Vancouver, BC
- Commercial
- Mining
- Leadership
34 yrsShari H.
Fractional General Counsel
Vancouver, BC
- Commercial
- IP & licensing
- Governance
11 yrsJosée B.
Global Technology & AI Counsel
Montréal, QC
- Technology
- AI
- Cybersecurity
17 yrsNatasha G.
Fractional General Counsel, B2B SaaS
Toronto, ON
- B2B SaaS
- Privacy
- Legal operations
8 yrsThelma Z.
Employment & Labour Counsel
Vancouver, BC
- Employment
- Investigations
- Human rights
12 yrsStefan B.
Commercial In-House Counsel
Calgary, AB
- Commercial
- Fintech
- Telecom
Choose the right model
Fractional, secondment, and recruiting are different answers to different risks.
Buyers often ask where one model ends and another begins. The simplest answer is to start with capacity, duration, and whether the relationship should become permanent.
Pricing and sizing
Trade the legal meter for a planned mandate.
Legal coverage gets risky when the work goes into an open-ended billing meter. We scope the route before the work starts: responsibilities, monthly capacity, seniority, and handoff expectations.
Before work starts
The triggerLeave, vacancy, overflow, or specialist gap
The capacity1–5 days/week
The operating rhythmMeetings, tools, stakeholders, handoff
The budget logicPlanned scope instead of surprise invoices
No meter anxiety
No vague handoff
Right-fit talent
Coverage areas
Senior coverage across core in-house workstreams.
Match a fractional whose experience maps to the work that is actually slowing the business down.
Commercial contracts
MSAs, SOWs, vendor and partnership paper.
Privacy & data
DPAs, AI governance, security reviews.
Employment
Offers, separations, policy, HR escalations.
IP & licensing
Assignments, content, software, brand, licensing.
M&A & diligence
Deal support, data rooms, integration work.
Compliance & policy
Internal policies, audits, regulator response.
How it works
From need to embedded operator.
We scope the work, match for fit, and stay involved so support does not become another thing to manage.
Size the work
Map the pressure to a practical capacity tier, from monthly support to multi-day weekly coverage.
Match the operator
Review lawyers who opted into the scope with the right in-house, industry, and practice background.
Embed fast
Bring the lawyer into your tools, stakeholders, and priorities so they can contribute from day one.
Adjust with demand
Change capacity as priorities shift, with Goodlawyer supporting fit, continuity, and the account.
Customer proof
Embedded from day one — the bar for Fractional InHouse™.
We've been very pleased with how our lawyer hit the ground running and integrated into our team. I would highly recommend other GCs consider Goodlawyer.
Kay Johnson
General Counsel · Flair
FAQ
Questions worth asking before you bring someone in.
Straight answers on how the model works, who you will be working with, what it costs, and what happens if things change.
Goodlawyer is not a law firm and not a traditional recruiter. We are an alternative legal service provider that curates a network of independent lawyers and matches them to in-house legal needs.
Add capacity
Embed a senior operator for the work ahead.
Tell us the workload, timing, and specialty you need. We’ll shape a fractional in-house scope that moves commercial, product, or specialist work forward.
- Senior counsel who take ownership
- Matched in days, not a six-month search
- Stack specialties as you need them