Practice · On-call leadership
Senior legal leadership on a monthly retainer — priority access to a partner, contract flow, governance, and strategic counsel from someone who has held the chief legal officer's seat.
Senior, on-call legal leadership for startups, growth-stage companies, and operating businesses that need a general counsel's judgment without a general counsel's overhead — from a partner who has actually held the chief legal officer's seat.
Direct access to the same partner every time, without per-call metering, for the questions that come up between deals.
Negotiation and drafting of customer, vendor, employment, and partner agreements at volume pricing, with a template library built for your business.
Board materials, minutes and consents, equity administration, and the governance hygiene that investors and acquirers check.
Regulatory monitoring for your industry, policy and process design, and early identification of the issues that become expensive when ignored.
Keeping the data room current so that a financing or an acquisition does not start with three months of clean-up.
A seat at the leadership table from someone who has run companies — an operator's read on risk, not a memo that hedges.
Scott Beckmen has served as chief legal officer of a venture-stage technology company, co-owned a land services company with more than two hundred contractors, and founded and run law firms. That experience is the point of the fractional GC practice: counsel who understands payroll, runway, and the board's mood as well as the statute.
Priority access to a partner without per-call metering, a monthly allowance of document and advisory work sized to your volume, volume pricing on contracts beyond the allowance, and a standing seat in your leadership conversations. The retainer is set after a scoping conversation and reviewed quarterly.
Hourly billing punishes the early call — the five-minute question that would have prevented a problem. A retainer removes that friction: you call when the issue is small. It also means the lawyer answering knows your business, your contracts, and your board, because it is the same lawyer every time.
Yes. The retainer is designed for operating companies in energy, real estate, and technology: it covers the day-to-day while transactions and offerings are quoted as flat fees on top.