Contingent GC provides fractional General Counsel support and targeted legal, risk, and strategic advisory services principally for the contingent labor industry and the businesses that operate around it, including enterprise buyers with significant contingent workforce exposure.
The work is practical, commercially grounded, and designed to help leadership move faster with better legal structure, stronger governance, and more disciplined risk management.
Fractional GC and Executive Advisory
Day-to-day senior legal support for founders, CEOs, and leadership teams.
Counsel on legal, workforce-risk, commercial, governance, compliance, and escalation issues.
Decision support for new offerings, market positioning, executive issues, and business structure questions.
Outside counsel management and triage when specialist support is needed.
Joint Employment, Independent Contractor Compliance, and Worker Classification
Enterprise-wide independent contractor and workforce-model audits.
Worker-classification analysis and remediation planning.
Joint-employer, co-employment, supplier, and contingent workforce governance review.
Training, documentation, playbooks, and recommended mitigation steps.
Program design for independent contractor compliance, worker-classification governance, and joint-employment risk control.
Support around DOL, IRS, EEOC, state agency, and related audit or enforcement exposure.
Buyer-Side Enterprise Advisory and Contingent Workforce Governance
Advisory support for enterprise buyers with substantial contingent workforce spend or complex labor-channel usage.
Review of contingent workforce structures, supplier arrangements, SOW environments, and enterprise governance controls.
Assessment of workforce-risk allocation among enterprise buyers, suppliers, intermediaries, and service providers.
Support for procurement, HR, legal, and operations teams dealing with complex supplier and workforce issues.
Design and refinement of enterprise governance frameworks for contingent labor, outsourced services, and supplier oversight.
Strategic Consulting and Project-Based Support
Defined-scope consulting projects tied to contingent workforce risk, governance, contracts, and operating-model design.
Project-based support for audits, playbooks, contract-suite buildouts, and remediation efforts.
Consulting on legal-commercial alignment for new offerings, service lines, and growth initiatives.
Disputes, Investigations, and Outside Counsel Management
Litigation management, dispute triage, demand-letter response strategy, and settlement positioning.
Selection, supervision, and cost management of outside counsel.
Practical alignment between legal strategy and business objectives.
M&A and Strategic Projects
Small and medium-sized buy-side and sell-side transaction support.
Commercial, employment, workforce, and contingent labor diligence support.
Transaction-related contract, workforce-model, and risk review.
Commercial Contracts and Revenue Protection
Customer MSAs, staffing agreements, vendor agreements, supplier agreements, and complex service contracts.
MSP, RPO, EOR, AOR, SOW, BPO, direct sourcing, solutions, payrolling, and related workforce-delivery agreements.
Platform, SaaS, subscription, licensing, and technology-related contracts in the workforce / HR-tech environment.
Clause frameworks, fallback positions, playbooks, and contract-process improvement.
Negotiation support for high-value, nonstandard, and strategically sensitive deals.
Employment Counseling and Executive Risk
Employment agreements, offer letters, restrictive covenants, separation terms, and executive arrangements.
Day-to-day employment counseling in workforce-intensive businesses.
Investigations, sensitive personnel issues, and management-side risk questions.
Policies, training, and practical issue spotting tied to contingent labor businesses.
Contingent Workforce Model Architecture
Review of how your delivery model, contracts, onboarding, supplier relationships, and documentation actually fit together.
Support for MSP, RPO, EOR/AOR, direct sourcing, SOW / solutions, and hybrid workforce-delivery structures.
Risk allocation and commercial architecture aligned with how the business really operates.
Cross-Border Growth and Supplier Frameworks
Cross-border workforce expansion support and issue spotting.
Supplier and local-partner framework support for international growth.
Coordination with local counsel where required and practical integration into business operations.