What we do.

How we do it.

Fractional General Counsel

Legal as an operating function. Not a fire drill.

"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

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 begin with the business objective and work backward through the risk. 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

Insurance Matters

Coverage disputes require counsel that knows how the other side thinks.

"When coverage is disputed, the strategy you bring in early determines the outcome."

Insurance coverage disputes are unlike most commercial litigation. The outcome is shaped significantly by decisions made in the first weeks of a claim — how the claim is tendered, how coverage positions are framed, how reservation of rights letters are responded to, and whether the litigation strategy reflects a clear understanding of how the insurer on the other side is evaluating the matter.

KSA Law’s insurance practice brings an advantage that few boutique firms can offer: deep familiarity with how insurers evaluate claims, set reserves, and make coverage decisions. That perspective — developed through substantial representation of insurance industry participants at the highest levels of the Missouri insurance bar — fundamentally changes how we advise on coverage disputes and insurance litigation strategy.

We understand what motivates resolution, where leverage actually lies, and how to build coverage positions that hold. Whether advising on an insurer’s coverage obligations or managing the litigation risk around a complex claim, we bring the same discipline: early case assessment, clear strategy, and informed judgment about when to press and when to resolve.

Scope of Practice

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Coverage analysis and coverage opinion letters

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Reservation of rights response and strategy

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Insurance company transactions — formations, acquisitions, and regulatory matters

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Regulatory compliance and Department of Insurance matters

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Defense and indemnity disputes — duty to defend and duty to indemnify

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Bad faith exposure management and assessment

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Reinsurance and alternative risk arrangements

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Insurance litigation strategy and dispute resolution

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 forms. No intake questionnaires. Just a direct conversation.