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Legal Expertise, Tailored to Your Business Needs
When legal questions pile up, it can slow leadership down or create risk you only discover after the fact. FH&P Lawyers provides Corporate Counsel services, including Fractional General Counsel (FGC), to help businesses across the Okanagan, Interior BC, and Lower Mainland manage legal work in a practical, business-first way.

Why Corporate Counsel Matters
Corporate Counsel is a partner to your leadership team. Instead of treating legal as a last-minute “review,” Corporate Counsel helps you:

• reduce avoidable risk before it becomes a dispute
• keep corporate records and governance in good order
• support growth plans with clear contracts and steady compliance habits
• make faster, more confident decisions with legal context built in

For many organizations, the challenge is not “Do we need legal support?” It is “How do we get the right level of support without hiring a full-time in-house lawyer too early?”

What is a Fractional General Counsel
A Fractional General Counsel (FGC) is an experienced lawyer who provides senior-level legal leadership on a part-time, flexible, or project basis. Think of it as in-house style support, scaled to your business. It can also help during high-demand periods, such as rapid growth, a new partnership, a capital raise, or a complex contract cycle.
Common situations where a fractional model helps:

• Startups and scaling businesses that need repeat legal support
• Small and mid-size businesses that want predictable access to counsel
• Leadership teams that are spending too much time managing contracts and risk
• Organizations in transition (new management, restructuring, succession planning)
• Project spikes (financing, acquisitions, major vendor agreements)

What Working with FH&P Can Look Like
Businesses choose Corporate Counsel and Fractional General Counsel arrangements for a few practical reasons:

Cost control and predictability: You can access senior legal support without the overhead of a full-time hire, and often with a clearer scope and budget structure (hourly, retainer, or project-based).

Flexibility: Scale support up or down based on what is happening in your business. Some months require steady contract work. Others need only a light touch.

Continuity: Instead of re-explaining your business to a new lawyer every time, you build a working relationship with counsel who learns your operations, priorities, and preferred decision-making style.

A full-service bench when needed: FH&P is a full-service firm, so when a matter touches real estate, construction, employment, litigation, or estates and succession planning, we can help coordinate support across practice areas under one roof.

If you are looking for a corporate lawyer to serve as your ongoing Corporate Counsel, or if you are considering a Fractional General Counsel model, we can help you map the right approach.

Book a Consultation to discuss your goals, current pressures, and the level of support that makes sense for your business.