What we do.

How we do it.

Fractional General Counsel

Legal becomes a steady operating function — built in, not bolted on when something breaks.

"Most growing businesses need a general counsel long before they can justify hiring one."

You’re signing contracts you haven’t fully read. Legal questions are slowing down decisions that should be moving faster. Your counterparties are getting larger — and so are their legal teams. You’ve had one situation that made you realize you need someone consistently in your corner before the next one arrives.

These are the signals that a growing business has outgrown ad hoc outside counsel. The answer isn’t always a full-time general counsel — it’s an experienced outside attorney who operates like one. Present at the decision-making level, familiar with your business, and structured to scale with you.

KSA Law’s fractional GC service is built around that model. We don’t just answer legal questions as they arise — we build the legal infrastructure your business needs, anticipate the issues before they become problems, and give you a trusted advisor who understands your business objectives as well as your legal exposure.

When Fractional GC Makes Sense

You may be ready for fractional GC if your business is experiencing any of the following

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Contract volume is outpacing your bandwidth to review them carefully

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Legal questions are creating decision bottlenecks or being deferred too long

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You're preparing for a capital raise, acquisition, or significant new customer relationship

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You want proactive legal strategy — not just reactive legal response

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You're engaging with counterparties who have in-house legal teams and you don't

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You've had a contract, employment, or regulatory issue that could have been prevented

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Your business is entering new markets, products, or regulatory environments

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You need a lawyer who understands your business well enough to give business advice, not just legal advice

What our clients are saying

If you have ever sat on a question for your attorney because you were doing quick math in your head about what that one email was going to cost you, then you already understand why Kelly is part of our team.

We run two companies. Things come up constantly. Contracts, vendor agreements, privacy language, questions about what we can and can’t say in our marketing. For a long time, legal was the thing we avoided until it turned into an emergency, because every question came with a meter running behind it. That is an expensive way to operate, and not because of the invoice. It’s expensive because you end up making decisions without the one person who should be in the room.

Bringing Kelly on as part of our fractional legal team, on retainer every month, fixed that completely. I don’t hesitate to reach out to her. I don’t draft an email and then delete it because the question feels too small. I don’t wait until Friday to batch up three questions so it feels worth it. I just ask, and I get an answer.

Her communication is prompt and it is clear. She tells me what she’s looking at, what she recommends, and what the actual risk is in language I can repeat back to my business partner without translating it first. There is no mystery about where things stand or what happens next. When something needs to be sequenced in a specific order, she tells me the order.

The other thing I didn’t expect: because she’s in our business every month, she isn’t starting from zero every time we talk. She knows how we operate, she knows what we’re building, and her advice reflects that. She is not just reviewing documents. She is protecting the company she already understands.

If you’re running a growing business and legal still feels like something you brace for, talk to Kelly at KSA Law. The peace of mind of having a real attorney on your team, who you can actually call, is worth more than anything I expected to get out of it.

— Courtney Weaver, CEO AgencyCoach AI, President Weaver Sales Academy

Business Transactions

Contracts that allocate risk. Terms that hold.

"The deals you do today determine the exposure you carry tomorrow."

Most commercial contracts are negotiated under time pressure, against counterparties with more lawyers, or from template agreements that weren’t designed with your business model in mind. The result is terms that create risk you didn’t intend to carry, leverage you didn’t intend to surrender, and obligations that compound over the life of the relationship.

KSA Law’s transactional practice is built around a different approach: we start from the deal’s real goal, then pressure-test the risk before a word hits the page. What exposure is this agreement creating? Where is leverage being traded away unnecessarily? What happens when this relationship doesn’t go as planned? Those questions shape every contract we negotiate and every structure we recommend.

We bring the discipline of large-firm transactional practice to commercial agreements of all sizes — with the judgment to know which terms matter, which battles to fight, and how to close without creating problems downstream.

Scope of Representation

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Master service agreements, SOWs, and vendor/customer terms

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Partnership, joint venture, and strategic alliance structures

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Letters of intent, term sheets, and acquisition support

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Securities law considerations in private and public company transactions

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Technology licensing and SaaS agreements

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Corporate formation, governance documents, and operating agreements

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Mergers, acquisitions, and business combination transactions

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Insurance industry transactions — carriers, agencies, and reinsurance arrangements

Litigation Defense

Defense built on knowing how the other side evaluates your case.

"In complex litigation, the strategy you build in the first thirty days determines what your options look like at trial.

You’ve received a reservation of rights letter and aren’t sure what it really means for your coverage position. A third-party claim has been tendered and the defense strategy being proposed doesn’t account for how the insurer on the other side is actually evaluating the matter. A professional liability suit has been filed and the stakes — financial and reputational — are too high to hand to counsel who hasn’t been in this room before. You need someone who understands not just the legal theory, but the institutional logic driving the other side.

These are the conditions where trial experience alone isn’t enough — where the outcome turns on understanding how insurers evaluate claims, set reserves, and position coverage disputes from day one. The answer is defense counsel who has operated inside that system and knows how to use that knowledge on your behalf.

KSA Law’s Litigation Defense practice brings that advantage to every engagement. We don’t manage litigation — we build strategy around it. Early case assessment, a clear and practical defense posture, and informed judgment about when to press and when to resolve — always in service of the client’s broader business objectives.

Litigation Defense is led by Brian Boos, Senior Counsel.

When Litigation Defense Makes Sense

You may be ready to engage KSA Law’s Litigation Defense team if your business is facing any of the following —

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A claim has been tendered and you're unsure whether defense and indemnity obligationsare clearly established

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A reservation of rights letter has been issued and no one has assessed what it means for your exposure

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A coverage dispute is developing and the insurer has already begun framing its position

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A professional liability or malpractice claim has been filed and you need senior trial counsel from day one

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A commercial dispute is escalating and the counterparty has more litigation resources than you do

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Bad faith exposure is a concern and you need counsel who understands how those claims originate and how to defend them

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Settlement discussions are approaching and you need someone who has been to trial enough times to know what the numbers actually mean

Practice Areas

KSA Law’s Litigation Defense practice covers a broad range of insurance and civil litigation matters, with Coverage operating as a sub-specialty under the broader defense umbrella.

Insurance Defense

Defense of claims tendered to insurers and their insureds, with a strategic understanding of how coverage obligations and defense interests align — or diverge — across complex matters.

Third Party Liability Defense

Defense of tort and indemnity claims brought by third parties against insureds, across a range of policy types, industries, and exposure profiles.

First Party Liability Defense

Defense of claims brought by policyholders directly against their insurers, including benefit disputes, claim denials, and policy interpretation matters.

Commercial Litigation Defense

Defense of complex commercial disputes — breach of contract, business torts, and multi-party litigation — with the business context that shapes both strategy and resolution.

Insurance Bad Faith Litigation Defense

Defense of bad faith claims and extra-contractual exposure, informed by deep institutional knowledge of how insurers make claims decisions and where bad faith risk originates.

Medical Malpractice Defense

Defense of healthcare providers and institutions in high-stakes medical liability matters, with a track record of trial work across complex clinical and institutional settings.

Professional Liability Defense

Defense of professionals — including legal, financial, and other licensed practitioners — in matters involving errors and omissions, breach of duty, and related claims.

Coverage (Sub-Specialty)

Coverage disputes are shaped significantly by decisions made in the first weeks of a claim — how the matter is tendered, how coverage positions are framed, and whether the litigation strategy reflects a clear understanding of how the insurer on the other side is evaluating it. KSA Law brings deep familiarity with how insurers evaluate claims, set reserves, and make coverage decisions — developed through substantial representation of insurance industry participants at the highest levels of the Missouri insurance bar.

Coverage analysis and coverage opinion letters
Reservation of rights response and strategy
Defense and indemnity disputes — duty to defend and duty to indemnify
Bad faith exposure management and assessment
Insurance litigation strategy and dispute resolution

Why KSA | LAW

The Credential Behind the Model.

Twenty-five years advising public and private companies through complex transactions — including:

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Represented Seller in a $48 million merger with a NYSE-listed foreign acquirer,

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Represented multi-jurisdictional formations and acquisitions in heavily regulated industries, and

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Represented institutional investors in Bermuda segregated cell investment vehicles.

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Represented institutional investors in Bermuda segregated cell investment vehicles.

Current work: representing multiple technology startups from seed forward on:

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Advising on capital raise structures,

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Advising on governance strategies,

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Building the org chart as they expand product lines,

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Managing employee matters as they hire,

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Negotiating increasingly complex services agreements as they grow ARR by landing enterprise customers.

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We are - Big Law depth without the overhead or mandatory hourly billing.

Founders and Executives keep me in the room round after round.

Work With Us

Ready to put legal strategy to work for your business?

Every engagement starts with a conversation about where your business is, where it’s going, and what’s in the way. No lengthy intake process. Just a direct conversation.