Outside General Counsel Services

Direct senior counsel for recurring contracts, commercial risk, transactions, and consequential legal decisions.

Elkhoury Law serves as outside general counsel to operating companies, investor-backed businesses, project-driven organizations, and leadership teams with recurring legal needs. Andrew works directly with executives, in-house lawyers, finance, operations, procurement, human resources, and project teams.

The role may include contract strategy and negotiation, governance, insurance and risk transfer, employment matters, claims, transactions, dispute management, and coordination of specialized counsel. The scope is defined by the company’s operations, legal workload, decision cycle, and risk profile.

Where the Model Works Best

An outside-general-counsel engagement is most useful when a company has recurring contract volume, material project or transaction activity, meaningful operational exposure, or leadership that needs consistent senior legal judgment. It may also support an existing legal department during a transition, leave, transaction, project, or period of increased demand.

As outside general counsel, Andrew develops a working understanding of how the business operates and provides legal support that aligns contracts, operations, and risk management. His goal is to serve as a core strategic partner, giving you the legal insight you need to move decisively on opportunities and manage risk before it turns into disruption.

Built Around Your Business

The firm’s approach is practical, business-focused, and grounded in how companies operate. Legal strategy should account for the client’s commercial objectives, internal decision-making, project demands, and tolerance for risk. With experience across contracts, transactions, projects, and operational matters, Andrew provides informed judgment when it matters most.

Each business has distinct demands, and engagements are structured around the scope, intensity, and cadence of the client’s work. Andrew can handle your:

  • Commercial contracts and negotiations.

  • Governance, operations, and recurring legal decisions.

  • Projects, transactions, and periods of elevated demand.

  • Insurance, risk transfer, project recovery, and coordination of specialized counsel.

Outside-general-counsel engagements may be ongoing, interim, or defined around a particular period of activity. Responsibilities, availability, workflows, and decision authority are established at the outset and adjusted as the company’s needs change.

Interim Legal Coverage

The firm can integrate with an existing legal department during a leave, leadership transition, transaction, project, or period of increased demand. The engagement is structured around defined responsibilities, existing workflows, escalation protocols, and an orderly handoff.

 FAQs

  • An outside general counsel engagement is generally appropriate when a company has recurring contract volume, significant project or transaction activity, meaningful operational exposure, or leadership that regularly needs senior legal judgment. The model may also support an existing legal department during a transition, leave, transaction, major project, or period of increased demand.

  • The scope may include commercial contracts, governance, insurance and risk transfer, employment-related matters, transactions, project support, recurring legal decisions, and coordination of specialized counsel. Responsibilities are defined around the company’s operations, internal capabilities, legal workload, and risk profile.

  • Yes. The firm can work alongside in-house lawyers, executives, project teams, and other outside counsel. The engagement may address a defined area of responsibility, provide additional capacity, support a consequential project or transaction, or coordinate matters requiring other specialist counsel.

  • Interim coverage is structured around defined responsibilities, availability, workflows, escalation protocols, and an expected transition or handoff. The firm can integrate with an existing legal department during a leave, leadership transition, transaction, project, or period of increased demand.

Discuss an Outside General Counsel Engagement

To discuss an ongoing, interim, or project-defined outside general counsel engagement, contact Andrew Elkhoury.