Our Practice Areas
Legal Support for the Questions Reaching Your Team
Your sales team is sending more customer contracts to leadership each month, and the process is starting to feel inconsistent.
Or your company is using AI tools, building AI-enabled products, or getting questions from customers about data use, risk, and governance.
Maybe your CEO, COO, CFO, founder, or head of operations is becoming the default legal filter because your company is not ready for a full-time in-house counsel hire.
What if your in-house legal team needs senior-level support for overflow contracts, policy updates, legal operations, or a project that needs to keep moving?
Extended Counsel provides practical business law services for companies that need legal guidance, structure, and support that can be used across daily operations.
Business Law
Services
Outside General Counsel
Ongoing legal support for companies that need practical business counsel before hiring a full-time in-house lawyer. Also includes overflow support for in-house legal teams.
Commercial Contracts
Contract review, drafting, negotiation, and systems that help businesses manage recurring agreements with greater consistency, clearer expectations, and stronger internal processes.
Legal Frameworks
Templates, checklists, processes, and legal infrastructure for companies that are growing quickly and need stronger systems to support the next stage of the business.
AI Governance
Guidance for businesses using AI tools, building AI products, or responding to customer, vendor, and compliance questions around responsible AI use.
Compliance, Risk Assessment & Operational Strategy
Practical support for identifying legal risks, improving internal processes, and turning compliance into a stronger business advantage.
Corporate Training
Legal training for staff, leadership teams, and business units on the issues they encounter in daily operations, including contracts, AI use, compliance, risk awareness, and working effectively with legal counsel.
A Legal Model Built for the Pace of Business
Extended Counsel is built around direct access to senior legal experience. That matters because growing companies do not need every legal question to become a long, slow, expensive process.
They need clear judgment, usable documents, practical systems, and a legal counsel model that fits how business teams actually work.
Heather’s in-house and law firm experience helps make the process more efficient. She understands what leadership needs to decide, what business teams need to use, and when an issue should be handled internally, escalated, or sent to a specialist.
The work is structured to help your company get useful legal support without adding unnecessary layers.
An Extension of Your Team
Extended Counsel can also support in-house legal teams that need senior-level help without adding permanent headcount. Whether your team needs overflow contract support, help with a policy update, business-team guidance, outside counsel coordination, or legal operations support, Heather can step in quickly and work within your existing structure.
Understanding the Business Context
Legal advice works better when it starts with how your company sells, hires, contracts, manages risk, uses technology, and makes decisions.
Building the Right Legal Tool
The answer may be a contract review, but it may also be a template, checklist, workflow, policy, playbook, training, or broader legal framework your team can use again.
Keeping the Process Practical
Extended Counsel focuses on usable next steps, clear communication, and legal support that helps your team handle the issue in front of them while preparing for what comes next.
Getting Started With Extended Counsel
01
Schedule a 15-Min Consultation
Tell us what your company needs, what legal questions are reaching your team, and what kind of support would be most useful right now.
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Confirm Fit and Scope
Extended Counsel will run a conflicts check, learn more about your business, and identify the right structure for the work, whether that is a focused project, ongoing counsel, or team training.
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Start With a Clear Plan
Once the engagement agreement is signed, we get to work with a clear scope, practical next steps, and a legal support model built around your business.
Put the Right Legal Structure Behind Your Operations
Your company does not need legal support that slows the business down. It needs practical counsel, efficient systems, and legal guidance your team can actually use.
Frequently Asked Questions
Your company may need outside general counsel when legal questions are becoming part of daily business decisions. That may look like contracts reaching leadership more often, customer requirements getting more complex, AI questions coming from employees or customers, or recurring issues that no one owns internally. Fractional business counsel can help you build a more consistent legal process before you hire a full-time in-house lawyer.
Yes. A commercial contracting attorney can help your team move beyond reviewing each contract from scratch. Extended Counsel can help create templates, playbooks, workflows, fallback positions, and negotiation standards so your team has a clearer way to handle customer agreements, vendor contracts, NDAs, software contracts, and other recurring business agreements.
Common areas include contract terms, data use, AI policies, employee and contractor issues, customer requirements, approval workflows, compliance obligations, and corporate records. The right priorities depend on your company’s size, industry, budget, and growth plans.
Probably. Customer questions about AI, data use, confidentiality, security, or internal policies are often a sign that your company needs a clearer AI governance structure. An AI governance lawyer can help you think through policies, contract language, employee guidance, vendor risk, and responsible AI use in a way that fits your business.
Legal frameworks give your team repeatable tools for recurring legal issues. That may include contract templates, intake processes, checklists, approval steps, internal policies, compliance workflows, and training. Instead of treating every issue as brand new, your company has a practical structure for making better decisions faster.
Yes. Extended Counsel can work with leadership, sales, operations, HR, finance, and in-house legal teams. That may include answering business-team questions, providing corporate training, improving contract workflows, or helping teams understand when an issue should be escalated.
Start with a 15-minute consultation. You can share what your company is working through, what questions are reaching your team, and where legal support would be most useful. From there, Extended Counsel can run a conflicts check, discuss fit and scope, and help identify whether the right next step is outside general counsel, commercial contracting support, AI governance, compliance and risk assessment, corporate training, or a focused legal framework.
Contact us
Have questions? Get in touch with us! We look forward to hearing from you soon.
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