Fractional Counsel for In-House Legal Teams

Senior capacity for your team, from a lawyer who has spent fifteen years in teams like yours.

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By Cam Gow, SRA-regulated solicitor. Last updated October 2026.

SRA-regulated solicitor. Fifteen years in-house. FTSE 100 and NASDAQ-listed experience.

When Teams Bring Me In

Maternity and Parental Leave Cover

Senior cover for a team member on leave, for the length of the leave, with a proper handover at both ends.

Interim Legal Cover

A departure, a long-term absence or a gap while you recruit. If it's your General Counsel who's away, see interim General Counsel cover.

Workload Spikes

A major transaction, a procurement round or a busy quarter that your team can't absorb.

Defined Projects

Contract remediation, a template overhaul, a playbook, or a review of your AI procurement terms.

Specialist Gaps

Technology contracts, IP and AI governance, where the team needs depth it doesn't have in-house.

Working the Way Your Team Works

I use your templates, playbooks and approval rules, work in your systems, and report to whoever you choose. Your stakeholders deal with me as part of the legal team. Fifteen years in-house across enterprise tech, financial services, energy and media, including FTSE 100 and NASDAQ-listed businesses, means there's very little onboarding before I'm useful.

An Alternative to a Secondment

With a secondee from an agency or a law firm's resourcing arm, you're paying for the lawyer plus the platform's margin and its account management. With CHORD you choose the lawyer, deal with them directly, and keep the same person for the whole engagement. There's no platform in between. The full comparison is on How CHORD Works.

Quality and Confidentiality

SRA-regulated solicitor, bound by professional duties of confidentiality. CHORD Legal Ltd has an appropriate level of professional indemnity insurance cover.

Happy to sign your confidentiality terms and follow your information security policies.

Your rules on AI tools apply to your work. If you'd rather I didn't use them on your matters, I won't.

How It's Structured

Usually an agreed number of days or hours a week on a committed term, or for the length of the gap you need covered. Hours flex up when the work needs it. Pricing is fixed and agreed upfront. More on how CHORD works.

What In-House Lawyers Say

“I worked with Cam on a long-term basis when he was an external advisor helping our internal legal team. He was invaluable to the team in managing a heavy workload, and was always professional and approachable, both in his interactions with the legal team and with our stakeholders. He was unflappable, efficient, and nothing ever seemed to be too much bother. He often received great feedback from satisfied stakeholders around his ability to make complex legal positions clear and his quick turnaround time.”

Ross MacTaggartSenior lawyer at a major high street bank

“We worked with Cam over a 2-year period and he helped with all types of commercial contracting, on both vendor and client side. He's commercial, pragmatic, quick and a great team player.”

Vicky BrownGeneral Counsel, Commercial at WPP

Frequently Asked Questions

How is this different from a secondee from an agency?

You choose the lawyer and deal with them directly, with no platform margin or account manager in between, and the same person works with you for the whole engagement.

Can you cover maternity or parental leave?

Yes. Cover is agreed for the length of the leave, usually as a set number of days a week, with a handover at the start and the end.

Will you work in our systems and to our templates?

Yes. I work to your templates, playbooks and approval processes, and in your systems where that's how the team operates.

Do you work on site?

Mostly remotely, with time on site when it's useful, particularly at the start of an engagement.

What if we only need help with one project?

That works too. A defined project is scoped and priced upfront as a fixed fee.

How quickly can you start?

It is usually possible to onboard a new client and start work within seven working days of initial contact, subject to agreeing terms.

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Based in Warwickshire, working with clients nationally.

Call: +44 7783 534486 · Email: cam@chord.legal · Connect on LinkedIn →

CHORD Smart Fractional Counsel

“CHORD” and “Chord Legal” are trading names of CHORD Legal Limited, registered in England and Wales, company number 14820174. Registered office: 124 City Road, London, EC1V 2NX. Cam Gow is a solicitor regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (“SRA”) (SRA ID 453794). CHORD Legal Limited is not authorised or regulated by the SRA. This is a structure the SRA's rules expressly permit.