Fractional legal counsel for growth-stage companies

Hacken Advisory provides two layers of an in-house legal function: a general counsel for strategy and a day-to-day counsel for tactical decisions

16,954: vulnerabilities identified
60+: security engineers in-house
2,183: security assessments delivered
$180B+: in client value secured

Why go fractional legal?

Full-time GC

Senior judgment on big decisions
Daily queue needs an extra hire
Context carried between matters
Salary, benefits, and overhead
Does not scale down in quiet periods

Law firm on call

Senior judgment, matter by matter
No one owns the daily queue
Context rebuilt and billed per matter
Hourly billing
Scales down in quiet periods

Hacken Legal Counsel

Senior judgment from a fractional GC
Day-to-day counsel owns the daily queue
Context kept in the Legal OS decision log
Monthly retainer
Scales down in quiet periods

Roles and responsibilities

Fractional GC

Owns legal strategy and roadmap
Designs and decides entity and tax architecture
Leads or oversees high-value contracts, M&A
Sets standards for routine contracts and templates
Risk oversight on compliance calendar and filings
Takes escalations from day-to-day advice
Primary on board and founder briefings
Strategic selection of external counsel

Day-to-day counsel

Informs legal strategy and roadmap
Implements and maintains entity and tax architecture
Supports and tracks high-value contracts, M&A
Owns lifecycle of routine contracts and templates
Owns execution of compliance calendar and filings
Primary owner of day-to-day advice and triage
Supports board and founder briefings as needed
Briefs external counsel and controls cost

From diagnostic to a running legal function

Step 1

Diagnostic

Map your legal and commercial position, current risk and volume, and what the Legal OS needs to handle.

Step 2

Stand-up

Staff the GC and day-to-day roles, configure the Legal OS, and set up templates, playbooks, intake and escalation.

Step 3

Operate

Monthly retainer, weekly operating rhythm, quarterly strategic review with leadership.

Step 4

Scale

Add capacity, specialist counsel or new-jurisdiction support as the business changes.

Senior legal judgment without the full-time hire

Hacken Advisory staffs your general counsel and day-to-day counsel on one monthly retainer, and the record of every decision stays with your company.

A shared record of decisions

Every request, clause and decision is recorded in the Legal OS, for the next person on the account.

Matter and workflow tracking

Every request, contract and compliance item from intake to close, with a named owner and a service level.

Contract repository and playbooks

Approved templates, clause libraries, version control and a searchable archive.

Compliance calendar

Filings, renewals, licences and regulatory deadlines, with alerts set before each one is due.

Knowledge and decision log

Advice given, decisions taken, precedents set. The record stays with the company.

Stakeholder portal

One intake point for the business, status visibility and self-serve access to approved documents.

Leadership dashboards

Volume, risk flags and capacity for the GC and leadership in one view.

FAQ

No. The model fits any growth-stage company with cross-border operations and more legal work than one founder can review. Our depth is in digital assets: token-related agreements, foundations, exchange and market-maker contracts, and the regulatory calendars that come with them.

Where a matter needs a practitioner admitted in a specific jurisdiction, the fractional GC selects and briefs specialist external counsel, and the day-to-day counsel manages cost and quality.

A monthly retainer, set after the two-to-four-week diagnostic, when both sides know the real workload. Hours and intensity adjust with the business cycle. Equity or success-based components are available for companies that want the relationship tied to outcomes.

Squire.Law is the platform your Legal OS runs on. Platform access is paid by you, separately from the retainer. We configure your workspace during the stand-up phase.

One call to scope your legal function

We map your legal workload, then propose the split between general counsel and day-to-day capacity.