Fractional GC and Counsel Services: Your Outside In-House Counsel

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What is a Fractional GC?Start-ups and growing businesses frequently require regular legal guidance, whether to protect their intellectual property (IP) or navigate complex business transactions. While external counsel can be helpful, the costs can be substantial, and hiring a full-time General Counsel (GC) may not be economically feasible for smaller companies.Enter the Fractional GC. This model brings in-house legal expertise on a part-time or flexible basis, tailored specifically to a company's needs. A Fractional GC offers a distinct advantage over traditional external counsel. While external counsel excel in specific legal areas, a Fractional GC brings a more general legal and business-centric approach. They have experience dealing with the challenges faced by growing businesses and can provide practical advice that goes beyond just legal technicalities. Fractional GCs can help develop strong IP strategies to safeguard valuable ideas and inventions, mitigate against risks, and offer guidance on legal aspects of contracts, partnerships, and other strategic transactions, all while understanding the pain points you might encounter when working with external counsel. They deeply understand your business goals, similar to a full-time GC, and achieve specific legal goals you define, and you can determine the length of their engagement. The flexibility of this model allows you to have access to legal support at your fingertips, without the high cost normally associated with the practice of law.

Integrated Expertise: A collaborative partner that understands your technology and learns your business, not just an external advisorBusiness-Minded Approach: Proactive legal strategy to mitigate risk and accelerate your growthTransparent Fixed-Fee Structure: Invest in expert guidance, not hourly surprises

Strategic legal and IP solutions at the intersection of law, business, and technology, tailored for innovative healthcare and tech-forward companies.

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The Evercounsel Fractional Approach

Unlike a traditional law firm, Evercounsel leverages prior in-house GC experience to deliver legal and IP solutions as an integrated member of your team at a fixed subscription fee so you can budget legal.

Business Focused
We take the time to understand, learn and keep current with your business and its intellectual capital to provide on-going strategic and business relevant counsel.

Team Member
By strategically integrating with your organization, we work closely with your founders, business executives and technical teams (and external legal teams, where appropriate) to provide fast and effective counsel.

Flexible Workflows
Evercounsel seamlessly integrates with existing legal arrangements or restructures them for maximum cost efficiency. As your GC, we can manage the comprehensive legal and IP process.

Cost Effective
Part-time legal and IP services without the law firm overhead and at a fixed fee with no long term commitments to allow you to stay on budget.

Broad Experience
Our broad experiences in the following areas make us the ideal outside in-house general counsel partner for startups looking to manage their legal processes and costs, expand their business and develop and manage leading IP strategies:

...and other core needs for startups and growth companies

Engagement Process
We want to establish relationships based on mutual trust to ensure we provide our very best. To facilitate this, we start with a free discovery call/visit to learn about your business to determine if and how we could provide value through a partnership. Once we've determined that we can provide value, we can offer you a custom quote based on the amount of time required and the length of engagement.Schedule a Discovery Call with Evercounsel Law PC

About

Jasminder Brar is a lawyer, IP strategist, and former medtech executive. He launched Evercounsel Law PC in 2024 to bring his unique blend of experience to startups and growing companies.

Meet Jasminder - Evercounsel Founder and Fractional GC

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Who is Jasminder? A lawyer? Yes. An IP strategist? Yes. An in-house executive? Yes. But he wouldn't list those as his primary attributes. He is a son, husband, father, brother, and a friend to an amazing and talented group of people with a variety of backgrounds. He considers himself more a technology nerd and businessperson than a lawyer. He just happens to be a Legal and IP Ninja, knowing some things about law and IP. Jasminder has spent over 15 years working with startups and understands the highs and lows, the requirements of running successful businesses, and the appropriate role law and IP play in supporting and growing such businesses. He has worked with Canadian and U.S. private and public companies on several interesting business cases including leveraging IP for capital fundraising, strategic collaborations, licensing and other cross-border matters. He helped Titan Medical (TSX: TMD; Nasdaq: TMDI) establish its U.S. operations. He also led licensing efforts with Medtronic PLC (Nasdaq: MDT), and served on a steering committee for the successful development of robotic surgery technologies. Further, he led Titan's efforts in licensing its patent portfolio to well-established medtech companies, including Intuitive Surgical (Nasdaq: ISRG), Medtronic and Auris Health, part of J&J Medtech (NYSE: JNJ).Get in touch!

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