Fractional General Counsel.
Take the pain out of your legals.
Providing fractional General Counsel services, delivering access to senior, strategic legal expertise without the cost or commitment of a full-time hire. Services are aligned to support leadership teams with pragmatic, commercially focused advice across contracts, governance, risk, compliance and employment matters.
Backed by over 20 years’ experience across legal, commercial, employee relations, governance, risk and compliance, with experience in multinational organisations spanning FMCG, Retail, Agriculture, Franchising, Manufacturing, Telecommunications and Technology, as well as a B2B professional services marketplace.
Key focus areas:
In-house legal support.
Providing legal support to SMEs that don’t yet have an in-house legal team, busy GCs at large corporates that have overflowing workloads, and off-shore entities setting up operations in Australia by providing outsourced in-house counsel on retainer, part-time time or as-needs basis.
Legal team design & operations.
Consulting on legal team design options for resourcing (headcount, seniority, expertise), in-house vs external legal spend, technology solutions to support legal matters (triage, tracking and reporting) and can also provide coaching support to new (junior/mid-level) sole legal counsels.
External law firm optimisation.
Assisting with developing law firm panels by running RFPs, negotiating rates (including volume discounts, value-adds) and terms of engagement to establish external legal panels, ensuring that businesses have the right sized firm with the right level of expertise, at competitive rates.
Work we do.
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Commercial Contracts
Non-Disclosure Agreements, Services Agreements, Subscription Services, Purchasing Ts&Cs and a wide range of other general commercial agreements.
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Employment Matters
Employment Contracts, HR Policies and Procedures, template HR Letters, Training and a range of other template documentation for employees.
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Governance & Compliance
Board Charters, Committee Charters, Delegations of Authority Policies, Board Reporting templates and more..
When you just need your legals sorted but don’t quite know where to start.
Our signature solution: Your legal toolkit.
To help you set up your business for success, we can help to set solid foundations for a well-functioning in-house legal team. Know your legals are sorted, so you can focus on running your business.
Template Contracts.
Create template agreements tailored to your business to ensure your legal bases are covered, and that your commercial interests and operational model is accurately captured.
We can help with well structured, easy to use, clear template agreements such as: NDAs, Employment Agreements, Goods & Services Agreements, Tender Ts&Cs
Policies & Procedures.
Set up a suite of clear policies and procedures so that employee performance, regulatory compliance and governance can be managed effectively.
We can help with a range of policies & procedures such as:
Bullying & Harassment, WHS, Internet & Social Media, Gifts & Entertainment
Whistleblowing, Conflicts of Interest, Code of Conduct
Board Committee Charters, Delegations of Authority
Systems & Processes.
Having solid template agreements and policies & procedures is a great start. As your business grows, you will want to have well functioning systems and processes in place to ensure everything is easily accessible, usable and trackable.
We can help to source and implement legal matter management tools such as document automation, task tracking, law firm billing, e-signatures and contract storage.
What people say:
“Fluent Legal provided clear, simple, practical advice, without ‘over-lawyering’ the contract so we could get the deal done quickly. We’re really grateful!”
—SME Client.
