You do not need another generalist
You need someone who has seen the exact issue before and can work inside your business context.
The specialist gap
The problem is not capacity. It is confidence in one narrow area.
Legal teams often know exactly where they are exposed. The hard part is finding senior niche judgment without sending the matter out, over-hiring, or forcing a generalist to fake depth.
External counsel can be too detached
A memo may answer the legal question while still leaving you to translate it into business action. It brings an in-house perspective someone who understands what deliverables the business actually needs, not just whats legally correct.
The niche can expand
Specialist work often reveals adjacent needs, which is why the model has to support stacking expertise into one flexible mandate.
Depth on demand
Specialists who operate inside the business.
91做厙 matches for practice depth and operator judgment, then helps shape the scope so specialist expertise turns into practical momentum.
Relevant experience
Review experience with the actual agreements, issues, industry and jurisdictions in your scope.
Clear ownership
Agree which decisions the embedded specialist owns, what stays with the GC and when to bring in external counsel.
A scope that fits
Choose recurring capacity or a defined project around the volume, complexity and availability the work requires.
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 yrsJos矇e B.
Global Technology & AI Counsel
Montr矇al, 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 capacity15 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
Common specialty gaps
Coverage where lean legal teams most often need depth.
Examples of work to discuss when scoping a mandate. Confirm relevant experience, jurisdiction fit and availability for the proposed lawyer.
Privacy & data
Data-processing agreements, privacy assessments and recurring advisory work with internal privacy and security teams.
Employment
Workplace policies and recurring HR advisory work, scoped to the workforce locations and issues involved.
Technology & AI
Vendor contracts, product reviews, data-use questions and coordination with specialist regulatory counsel.
Commercial & procurement
Customer and vendor agreements, negotiation queues and practical contracting guidance.
IP & licensing
Software and content licences, usage rights and commercial IP provisions.
Project support
Define a specialist workstream within a launch, integration or policy project, including where outside counsel is needed.
How specialist support starts
Start narrow, then expand only where it earns its keep.
We turn a specialist gap into a practical mandate with the right seniority, scope, and cadence.
Name the gap
Identify the risk area, business context, and decisions the internal team needs confidence on.
Match the specialist
Find lawyers whose practice depth and industry experience line up with that specific issue.
Stack adjacent work
Fold in adjacent workstreams only when they make the engagement more useful and efficient.
Transfer judgment
Leave the team with playbooks, templates, and decision rules so the learning can compound.
Customer proof
Specialist counsel when the roadmap will not wait.
91做厙 supported our legal team during a busy quarter, helping us manage resourcing challenges such as parental leaves and the need for specialist counsel.
Kosta Starostin
VP Legal 繚 Cohere
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.
We match lawyers for specialist privacy and employment work. For privacy work, outline recurring contracts, assessments, advisory needs and the internal privacy or security owners. For employment work, include workforce locations, policy projects and the matters retained by outside counsel. Confirm the proposed lawyers relevant experience, authorization and availability.
Find the specialist
Get the narrow expertise your team needs now.
Share the practice area, industry context, and timing. Well identify a specialist who can apply judgment inside your business, not just write a memo.
- Depth without a specialist headcount
- Operator instincts, not doctrine only
- Stack adjacent needs in one mandate