The Law Offices of Michelle Gessner, PLLC, offers clients a business-minded, common-sense approach to legal services, always keeping an eye on the client’s bottom line.
Michelle’s 18 years of experience, including her position as the Chief Litigation Counsel at Fortune 300 companies, positions her to fully appreciate and understand the pressures associated with outside counsel expenses.
Many businesses decide that the cost of in-house counsel outweighs the benefit, while other businesses find their in-house counsel need additional resources on a temporary basis, particularly in an important area of the law. Michelle’s experience and knowledge gives her the unique insight to assist both large and small to mid-size businesses effectively with their legal needs.
Our available General Counsel services provide a wide scope of coverage to our clients:
Interim General Counsel Services
While your Company searches for your next in-house General Counsel, our office will perform the General Counsel’s responsibilities:
- For the entire company
- Or for specific sections, such as Employment Law or Litigation Counsel
Fractional General Counsel Services
If your company needs a General Counsel on a less than full-time basis, our Practice serves companies as a General Counsel on an apportioned basis.
In-house Legal Department Design Recommendations
- Maximizing internal resources
- Streamlining litigation portfolios
- Establishing early case resolution processes, procedures and formats
- Training and developing in-house team on setting legal reserves
- Reducing the number of law firms thus achieving better results and cost savings
- Establish early case warning systems by identifying trends of claims/litigation
- Producing reports to business partners to show value, and mitigate risks before litigation happens
Specific Isolated Needs
If your company has a need for counsel on an individual legal matter, such as an employee termination, our Practice can serve as a General Counsel on a one-time basis.
Litigation Management Services
Strategically managing class action and multi-party cases is both an art and a science, and requires both short-term and long-term vision and planning. Successful resolution of such cases in a cost-effective and efficient manner occurs only when the managing litigator oversees a complex case by:
- Maximizing internal resources
- Streamlining litigation portfolios
- Establishing early case resolution process, procedures and format
- Reducing the number of law firms, thus achieving better results and cost savings.
Our Service Level Objectives
Our law office provides “outside” or “outsourced” general counsel services at a cost that is well below the costs of maintaining one or more attorneys on staff.
Our office serves out clients by:
- Learning our clients’ goals and business models
- Crafting legal solutions that maximize the overall mission, goals and objectives of the Company
- Working closely with senior management, in-house attorneys and other outside counsel
- Providing services efficiently and in a cost-efficient manner