Strategic Counsel Empowering You
Welcome
Being a great in-house counsel involves much more than just practicing law.
It requires business judgment, strategic thinking, emotional intelligence, curiosity, leadership, and the ability to see around corners. It also requires understanding how organizations actually work and how law can be used not merely to manage risk, but to create possibility.
I’m Saerin Ally Cho. I am an attorney, fractional general counsel, law professor, advisor, and coach. I work with mission-driven organizations and the people who lead them, while helping current and future in-house counsel develop the skills and perspective to thrive in a changing profession.
Services
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Embedded as part of the leadership team as a fractional general counsel, I provide mission-driven organizations with experienced, strategic legal counsel to navigate legal, governance, risk, and organizational challenges.
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Board governance consulting helps mission-driven organizations and leaders build more effective and engaged boards, including board assessments, governance bylaws and policies, board roles and responsibilities, committee structures, board recruiting strategy, strategic planning, and board development and retreat.
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I partner with mission-driven leaders and general counsel as a trusted thought partner and advisor, helping them build and strengthen effective legal functions, while coaching law students and attorneys to strategically build and advance successful, sustainable in-house careers.
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Leadership training combines practical leadership skills with decades of mindfulness practice to help mission-driven leaders and teams lead with greater self-awareness, empathy, clarity, authenticity, and joy while building stronger, more collaborative organizations.