OUTSIDE COUNSEL FOR BUILDERS

Legal counsel for the decisions that cannot wait.

Consilium Law works with growth-stage companies that need steady legal judgment before the issue becomes urgent.

The legal questions usually arrive before the company is ready for a full-time general counsel. A customer contract gets more complicated. A board member asks about AI risk. A financing round exposes old corporate cleanup. A regulatory issue moves from background noise to operating constraint. Consilium Law works in that space, giving founders and executive teams legal counsel from someone who has practiced law, built companies, and made decisions from the client side of the table.

Approach

How we work

01

Discovery

We start by understanding how the company actually works: the customers, contracts, capital path, regulatory pressure, and decisions already moving through the business. The goal is not a long memo. It is a clear view of what needs attention now, what can wait, and what should be built before it becomes expensive.

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Architecture

From there, we put structure around the legal work. Corporate governance, commercial contracts, IP, regulatory questions, and AI risk should not sit in separate boxes if the business does not operate that way. We build the legal framework around the company’s actual decisions, not around a generic outside-counsel checklist.

03

Engagement

The ongoing relationship runs through a flat monthly engagement. You get regular access, a predictable rhythm, and a lawyer who understands the business before the next question lands. Larger matters, such as financings, acquisitions, or major regulatory filings, can be scoped separately so the monthly relationship stays clear.

Practice

Practice areas

Consilium Law is built around two connected kinds of work. Outside General Counsel gives the company a steady legal function before it hires one in-house. AI Governance Counsel helps companies make defensible decisions about AI deployment, vendor risk, data use, and oversight while the legal rules are still taking shape.

Outside General Counsel

Outside General Counsel is for companies that need more than project-by-project legal help but are not ready, or not structured, for a full in-house legal department. Consilium Law works with the leadership team on the recurring legal decisions that shape the business: contracts, governance, financing readiness, regulatory posture, and the questions that do not fit neatly into one matter.

Outside General Counsel

AI Governance Counsel

AI governance is becoming a business issue, not just a policy issue. If a company uses AI in products, operations, procurement, or customer delivery, legal judgment now belongs closer to the product and compliance conversation. Consilium Law helps companies think through vendor terms, data use, model oversight, disclosure, auditability, and the board-level questions that follow.

AI Governance Counsel
SparkPoint

Writing on the changes that matter

SparkPoint is where Consilium Law writes about the legal and regulatory changes that matter to builders. Not every development deserves a client alert. The ones that do usually change a contract, a board question, a financing diligence request, a procurement response, or the way a company should document its decisions.

When Co-Located Generation Becomes a FERC Question

Data center operators and clean energy companies are putting generation closer to load. The legal issue is no longer just whether the project can interconnect, but who has authority over the arrangement and how the structure should be documented.

AI Inventorship After the USPTO Guidance

The Patent Office has made clear that an AI system cannot be named as an inventor. The harder question is what evidence a company should keep to show where human contribution began, especially when investors or acquirers later review chain of title.

FEOC Compliance for Manufacturers Receiving Federal Incentives

Foreign Entity of Concern rules are changing how manufacturers think about suppliers, ownership, licensing, and federal incentive eligibility. The companies that wait until diligence to map those relationships may find the legal question has become a financing question.

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