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Your Next General Counsel Doesn't Need an Office.

Fractional General Counsel services, enhanced by AI, for companies scaling to $500M. Strategic legal leadership without the full-time cost.

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20+ Years of Practice
Admitted New jersey • new york • florida
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Serving $20M - $500M Companies

You're Paying for Legal Like It's 2006

The traditional model is broken. A full-time General Counsel costs $250K–$400K in salary alone — before benefits, bonuses, and office space. And that's assuming you can find one willing to join a company your size.

The alternative? Hourly outside counsel at $500–$1,000 per hour, with no alignment to your business strategy, no seat at the leadership table, and no incentive to keep your costs down.

Meanwhile, every legal department in the Fortune 500 is deploying AI to review contracts faster, assess risk earlier, and cut spend dramatically. Mid-market companies are being left behind — overpaying for outdated legal models while their competitors move faster with less.

$595,000
Average annual fully-loaded cost of a full-time GC at a mid-market company
40%
Estimated inefficiency in mid-market legal spend, per industry benchmarks
3x
Our target ROI for fractional engagements within Year 1

What We Do

Three ways to modernize your legal function — each enhanced by AI, each designed for companies that move fast.

Fractional General Counsel

Strategic legal leadership without the full-time overhead. From growth-stage companies needing their first GC to established firms requiring C-suite legal counsel for board governance, M&A readiness, and regulatory strategy.

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Legal Operations

Transform your legal function from a cost center into a competitive advantage. Process optimization, vendor management, spend analysis, and workflow automation — built for operational leaders who measure results.

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AI Transformation

Deploy AI across your legal department with the judgment of experienced counsel behind it. Contract analysis, risk assessment, research acceleration, and compliance monitoring — faster, more accurate, and at a fraction of the cost.

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THE ANZALONE DIFFERENCE

Every Engagement We Run Is Enhanced by AI. Not as a Gimmick. As Infrastructure.

Most law firms treat AI as a marketing buzzword. We treat it as a core operating system. Every contract review, risk assessment, and legal research project we handle is accelerated by AI tools — purpose-built, attorney-supervised, and designed to deliver faster, more thorough results.

This isn't about replacing judgment. It's about giving experienced counsel better tools. The same way a surgeon uses robotic instruments to be more precise, we use AI to be more thorough, more consistent, and more efficient.

The result: our clients get the strategic excellence of a major law firm without the 'BigLaw' price tag. We bring the unique perspective of an attorney who has not only tried cases but has built and steered legal departments and sat at the board table.

Contract Intelligence
AI-powered review that identifies risks, obligations, and non-standard terms across thousands of pages in hours, not weeks.
Research Acceleration
Legal research that would take days is completed in hours — comprehensive, cited, and ready for strategic decision-making.
Risk Monitoring
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Continuous AI surveillance of regulatory changes, compliance obligations, and contractual deadlines — so nothing falls through the cracks.
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Results, Not Promises

Anonymized outcomes. Every number is real. Every result was delivered.

EdTech · Global Online Education

Served as Chief Legal Officer and EVP for 7 years. Built the legal, HR, and compliance functions from scratch. Decreased outside legal spend by 90% while increasing productivity, effectiveness, and compliance. Prepared the business for acquisition — refining processes, leading due diligence, and executing the sale to a private equity firm.

90% reduction in outside legal spend · Led multimillion-dollar PE exit · 150% workforce scale in one year
FinTech · Emerging Technology

Joined as General Counsel during a period of rapid expansion. Built the legal department. Enhanced compliance infrastructure across AML, privacy, and financial regulations. Introduced AI-driven solutions to optimize legal operations and reduce reliance on outside counsel. Oversaw corporate governance through employee growth.

Enhanced AML compliance · Implemented AI-driven solutions
Wellness & Digital Health · Multiple Startups

Provided fractional general counsel to growth-stage companies across wellness, technology, and digital health. Covered commercial contracting, IP strategy, regulatory compliance, and business operations for multiple clients simultaneously. Handled litigation in state and federal courts and arbitration.

Several companies supported concurrently as fractional GC · Contract lifecycle fully systematized
Case studies are representative of typical engagement outcomes and have been anonymized. Results vary by engagement. Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome.
INTERACTIVE TOOL

How AI-Ready Is Your Legal Department?

Most legal departments are leaving efficiency gains on the table. Our AI Readiness Assessment scores your department across five critical dimensions and shows you exactly where AI can reduce cost, accelerate speed, and lower risk. Takes 90 seconds. Results delivered instantly.

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Meet Marco Anzalone

Marco Anzalone has spent over two decades as a trusted legal and business advisor to companies navigating growth, transformation, and complexity. He has served as General Counsel and Chief Legal Officer to high-growth technology, fintech, and education companies, as a litigation partner at a major national law firm, and as fractional counsel to startups and scaling businesses across wellness, digital health, fintech, and more.

He holds the conviction that world-class legal leadership shouldn't require world-class overhead — and that AI, deployed with experienced judgment, delivers better outcomes at dramatically lower cost. His track record includes a multimillion-dollar PE exit, 90% reduction in outside legal spend, building legal and compliance functions from scratch at growth-stage companies using AI-driven solutions, and leading organizations through periods of significant revenue and employee growth.

Marco is admitted to practice in New Jersey, New York, and Florida.

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