Outside Counsel Management

Streamlined Oversight, Strategic Alignment

At Decimal Legal, managing outside counsel is not just about controlling costs — it’s about ensuring that every legal resource is aligned with your company’s strategy. Your Decimal Legal fractional general counsel embeds directly with your leadership team and board, providing oversight, coordination, and strategic guidance on all external legal matters.

Unlike traditional law firms that treat each engagement as isolated, your Decimal Legal fractional general counsel ensures that every external legal effort supports your business objectives. Over time, they become deeply familiar with your company’s operations, goals, and culture, giving your board confidence that legal work is efficient, targeted, and aligned with long-term strategy.

Our Approach

Embedded Oversight – Your GC coordinates with outside firms while remaining fully integrated into your leadership team.

Strategic Alignment – Legal activities are aligned with business priorities, ensuring every action supports growth and risk management.

Cost Efficiency – We optimize external counsel usage, reducing unnecessary spend without compromising quality.

Network Leverage – Your GC can draw on Decimal Legal’s broad attorney network for specialized expertise, ensuring the right counsel is involved at the right time.

Maximizing Value from External Counsel

Proper counsel management provides tangible advantages for your company:

  • Predictable Legal Spend – Oversight ensures budgets are respected and resources are deployed efficiently.

  • Focused Expertise – External counsel is engaged strategically, not reactively, with the right specialists assigned to the right matters.

  • Risk Mitigation – Coordination reduces errors, miscommunication, and overlooked risks.

  • Strategic Consistency – All legal work supports your board’s objectives and long-term business strategy.

 

A Board-Level Advantage

With a Decimal Legal fractional general counsel overseeing your external counsel, your board gains a single, trusted point of contact for all legal matters. This ensures clarity, consistency, and alignment between internal strategy and external execution — allowing leadership to make decisions with full insight into legal implications.

Why Decimal Legal?

Counsel management is most effective when led by someone who understands both law and business. Decimal Legal embeds a fractional general counsel with deep industry knowledge into your company, giving them oversight of external legal resources while providing your board with strategic, actionable guidance. The result: streamlined legal operations, reduced risk, and confident decision-making at every level.

Get the Guidance Your Board Deserves

Reach out to Decimal Legal to learn how a fractional general counsel can provide actionable legal and business guidance, helping your company grow with confidence.