Strategic fractional
leadership. In the seat,
not on the payroll.
Murjis fills the legal, compliance and governance seats growing companies cannot yet justify hiring, and the gaps larger organizations cannot leave open: General Counsel, Privacy Officer, Compliance Officer, Corporate Secretary and Independent Director. Flat monthly fees, a named operator in the seat rather than an advisor on call, at a fraction of the cost of a full-time hire.
COMPANIES WE HAVE WORKED WITH
Why Fractional
Growing companies need the same leadership functions large companies have: someone who owns risk, someone named to regulators, someone who keeps the compliance program current, someone who keeps the records defensible, and directors who bring real governance depth. What they do not need is five salaries. And larger organizations have the salaries yet still have gaps: a GC who resigned mid-search, a leave to cover, an overflow quarter, a subsidiary with nobody local in the seat.
Fractional counsel fills those seats with named senior people, engaged for set days each month and integrated into your leadership cadence. One accountable lead who knows your business runs every mandate, so nothing falls between the chairs and nobody bills you in six-minute increments.
Take the seat you need today and add seats as the company grows into them. Scale up during a financing or regulatory matter. Scale down when things are quiet. No surprises at month end.
WHO THIS IS BUILT FOR
- Companies that have outgrown ad hoc external counsel
- Technology companies with steady regulatory and contract volume
- Teams bridging a GC departure, a leave, or a long executive search
- In-house legal teams adding senior capacity without headcount
- Companies that must name a Privacy Officer or Compliance Officer
- Subsidiaries, joint ventures and PE portfolio companies
- Boards adding an independent director with legal depth
- Growth companies not yet ready for a full-time executive hire
Licensed like a law firm. Built like nothing you have engaged before.
Murjis is a licensed practice, which means clients keep what no consultancy can offer: solicitor-client privilege, professional liability coverage and regulatory oversight. Everything else about the traditional firm is gone. No timesheets. No six-minute increments. No leverage pyramid of associates learning on your file. No office view built into your bill. And no marketplace matching: the people you meet are the people in the seats, not lawyers assigned to you from someone else's network.
The Five Seats
Fractional General Counsel
Call it fractional counsel, a Fractional GC or outsourced general counsel; the seat is the same. The flagship engagement: your acting general counsel, embedded in the business: contracts drafted, reviewed and negotiated against a playbook built for you; employment matters done correctly; financings and M&A supported through closing; disputes managed before they become litigation; risk called plainly, the way an in-house counsel calls it.
- COMMERCIAL CONTRACTS
- EMPLOYMENT
- FINANCINGS & M&A
- DISPUTES & RISK
- GOVERNANCE
Fractional Privacy Officer
Canadian privacy law requires an individual accountable for your organization's compliance. We take the appointment: CIPP/C-certified counsel named as your Privacy Officer, owning PIPEDA and provincial compliance (including Quebec Law 25 designation requirements), privacy impact assessments, breach response and the regulator relationship.
STATUTORY APPOINTMENT · CIPP/CFULL DETAILS →
Fractional Compliance Officer
A designated compliance officer with a live program behind them: regulatory mapping, AML and FINTRAC program administration for money services and fintech businesses, CASL and marketing compliance, sanctions screening, training, monitoring and board-level compliance reporting on a set cadence.
DESIGNATED OFFICER · PROGRAM + REPORTINGFULL DETAILS →
Fractional Corporate Secretary
The record-keeping seat that determines whether your next financing's diligence takes days or months. Board and shareholder meeting cycles run properly, resolutions and minutes drafted and filed, minute books kept current, annual filings made on time and the cap table kept clean.
BOARD CYCLE · MINUTE BOOK · FILINGSFULL DETAILS →
Independent Director
A board seat filled by counsel with operating governance experience: for boards adding independents, subsidiaries needing qualified local directors, and companies that want legal and privacy fluency in the room. Audit and governance committee capacity available.
BOARD APPOINTMENT · SUBJECT TO INDEPENDENCE REVIEWFULL DETAILS →
A seat we did not list? The mandate flexes.
Fractional mandates are shaped to the company, not to a practice area or an org chart. If your gap sits between these seats, combines several of them, or looks like something else entirely (deal counsel for a single financing, a governance lead for a subsidiary, an executive to stand up a compliance function from zero), we scope it, price it flat and fill it.
The first 30 days, every engagement.
Legal health check
Corporate records, key contracts, employment docs, privacy and compliance posture reviewed and risk-ranked.
Playbooks & programs
Contract positions, privacy program and compliance calendar codified so every seat runs on a system, not memory.
Priority fixes
The highest-risk gaps closed first, with a rolling quarterly plan for everything else.
Fees
One price holds one seat, whichever seat it is. Add seats and add days as the company grows. The math: $29,400 a year for a seat, against $250,000+ all-in for a single full-time hire, before you have filled the privacy, compliance or secretarial seats at all.
The Seat
Select any of the five seats, GC, Privacy, Compliance, Corporate Secretary or Independent Director, at one price.
$2,450 /MONTH
INCLUDES 1 COUNSEL DAY / MONTH
+ $1,250 ONE-TIME SETUP FEE
ADDITIONAL DAYS AT $1,650 / DAY- Named appointment with regulator or board interface
- Program build-out and ongoing administration for the seat
- Async access to the principal with a 1-business-day response commitment
- Contract and document review within the mandate's counsel-day capacity
- Monthly mandate review against a written plan
- One-time setup fee covers onboarding and the 30-day legal health check
Add counsel days whenever you need them, effectively $206/hour, a fraction of standard rates. Full or half-day blocks, at the same rate however short the notice, subject to availability.
Add a Seat
Officer seats layered onto your mandate, one at a time, as the company needs them.
+$2,250 /MONTH
PER ADDED SEAT
INCLUDES 1 COUNSEL DAY / MONTH
ADDITIONAL DAYS AT $1,650 / DAY- Named appointment added to the existing mandate
- The executive best suited to each seat, one consolidated mandate and one bill
- Program, reporting cadence and interface per seat
- Seats set scope; days set capacity. Every seat's day pools across the mandate
- Unified quarterly risk report to the board when two or more seats are held
- Add or release seats on 30 days' notice
Each added seat includes one counsel day. Add more at $206/hour, in full or half-day blocks, at the same rate however short the notice, subject to availability.
INCLUDED IN EVERY MANDATE
A company email address
Counsel works from your domain, inside your tools and your threads. Nothing gets lost forwarding matters out to a law firm, because there is no "out."
The template bank
Mandate clients draw on a maintained library of corporate, commercial, employment and privacy templates, adapted to your business rather than drafted from zero and billed by the hour.
A living playbook
Your contract positions, fallbacks and approval rules are codified on a playbook platform you can see. Every review gets faster, and your positions outlive any single deal or any single person.
Deals are scoped and priced flat, per deal.
Financings, acquisitions, dispositions and reorganizations are led to closing under defined-scope mandates priced on the deal, not the day. Mandate clients receive priority scheduling. Companies may also engage Murjis for a single transaction; most stay for a seat.
ScopedFLAT FEE PER DEAL
How We Compare
| TRADITIONAL FIRMS | LEGAL PLATFORMS | AI DRAFTING TOOLS | MURJIS LPC | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Who does the work | Rotating associates, partner supervision | A lawyer matched from a network | Software output, no counsel behind it | The named team you meet, every time |
| Pricing | Hourly, in six-minute increments | Teaser rate, then custom quoted | Monthly software licence | Published flat fees |
| Officer appointments | Rarely offered | Not offered | Not possible | Privacy, Compliance and Corp Sec seats, one price |
| Board service | Not offered | Not offered | Not possible | Independent Director seat, same flat price |
| Urgent work | Premium rates apply | Subject to lawyer availability | Drafts, but cannot advise or appear | Same day rate, however short the notice, subject to availability |
Seat fees are invoiced on the first of each month for that month and are due within 3 days of the invoice date. Payment is accepted by credit card (Visa, Mastercard, Amex) or pre-authorized debit, and clients keep a payment method on file which is charged automatically. Pricing excludes applicable taxes and disbursements. A counsel day is up to 8 hours of dedicated capacity, deployable in half-day (4-hour) blocks. Every mandate opens with a one-time setup fee covering onboarding: the 30-day legal health check, playbook build-out, company email and systems setup. The monthly seat fee begins the same month. Mandates run for an initial term with a minimum commitment, in consideration of which the seat and counsel-day rates are offered at a substantial discount to standard hourly rates, and thereafter on notice as set out in the engagement agreement. Every mandate has a structured 90-day review. Companies with officer or director appointments are expected to maintain D&O insurance extending to appointed officers and directors. The Independent Director seat covers the full board cycle (quarterly meetings with prep, committee service, and interim consultation), is subject to an independence and conflicts review, and is not combined with counsel seats at the same company where independence standards apply; committee chair roles and transaction-heavy boards are priced on inquiry. Murjis holds a limited number of mandates at any time so that every seat gets a named lead's full attention; fees may be adjusted where circumstances require a greater degree of customization or dedicated support. Interim GC mandates at half-time capacity or greater are available on inquiry. Murjis reserves discretion to decline engagements as a result of conflicts or otherwise.
The Team
Samir A. Murji
National corporate and securities law training at a Seven Sisters Bay Street firm, in-house at one of the world's largest retailers and a national health technology company, then years building and operating businesses of his own. Currently Chief Legal Officer, Chief Privacy Officer and Corporate Secretary of a multi-jurisdiction consumer technology group, and Fractional General Counsel to more than ten companies: the fractional suite running in production, at portfolio scale. J.D. (Queen's), CIPP/C, Law Society of Ontario.
- All fractional seats
- Director mandates
- Transaction mandates
Ahsan Mian
General Counsel of a cloud software company, overseeing legal across multiple operating companies, a seat he earned after rising from Legal Counsel. Before that, in-house at one of the world's largest retailers, negotiating complex commercial contracts and managing a global IP portfolio, and counsel to a global consumer lifestyle brand. Co-founded a technology platform in the fitness industry. J.D., with an Osgoode certification in IP transactions.
- All fractional seats
- Director mandates
- Commercial & IP focus
Sabrina Murji
Senior director-level legal leadership inside a national retailer, and Senior Corporate Counsel at a provincial Crown agency responsible for major public infrastructure and real estate projects. Earlier, counsel at a healthcare advisory firm, negotiating practice leases and transactions for physicians and dentists across Canada, following years running her own practice in real estate and business law. J.D., Osgoode Hall. A career spent inside operating businesses, which is exactly what a fractional seat is.
- Director mandates
- Leasing & transactions focus
Interested in holding a seat?
We add fractional executives selectively, across all five seats. If you are senior in your field and willing to take a named appointment inside an operating company, we would like to hear from you.
SENIOR EXPERIENCE · CREDENTIALED IN YOUR SEAT · CANADA
The AI-Assisted Practice
Machine speed on the first pass. Lawyer judgment on every deliverable. That model is why one counsel can hold five seats at these prices, and it comes with commitments.
Counsel reviews everything
Our firm's own customized AI agent, tuned further for each individual mandate, produces first-pass drafts, contract triage, playbook checks and compliance monitoring summaries. Your fractional lead reviews, corrects and approves every deliverable before it reaches you. Nothing ships on machine output alone.
Your data stays yours
Client information is never used to train public models. Every tool in the stack is vetted for confidentiality, privilege and data residency before it touches a client file.
Disclosed, not hidden
Where AI materially assists a deliverable, we say so. Our use of these tools is consistent with Law Society of Ontario guidance on technological competence and supervision.
The savings are passed on
First-pass work that once took days now takes hours, and the pricing on this page reflects it. We also advise clients on their own AI governance, because we run a compliant AI practice ourselves.
Start a conversation
Onboarding takes minutes, not weeks. A virtual coffee is exactly that: fifteen minutes to talk through what your company is dealing with and work out together whether we are the right fit. If we are, we will tell you which seats you need filled now, which can wait, and what it costs. If we are not, we will say so and point you somewhere better. No pitch, no obligation.
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- Murjis LPC
- ADDRESS
- 517 Richmond St E, Toronto, ON M5A 2W7, Canada
- info@murjis.com
- PHONE
- +1 647 799 3936
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Questions
What is fractional senior leadership?
A named senior operator retained for set days each month to hold a leadership seat, General Counsel, Privacy Officer, Compliance Officer, Corporate Secretary or Independent Director, at a fraction of the cost and commitment of a full-time hire.
How much does a Fractional General Counsel cost in Canada?
Murjis prices every seat, including Fractional GC, at $2,450 per month, with additional seats at $2,250 per month and additional counsel days at $1,650 per day, at the same rate however short the notice, subject to availability. Days are requested in advance and confirmed; work outside a booked day is billed at the standard hourly rate.
Can we start with one seat and add others later?
Yes. Seats set scope and accountability; counsel days set capacity. Start with the seat you need and add seats or days as the company grows, without renegotiating the mandate. Seats are added by written amendment and billed from the following month.
Do you serve companies across Canada?
Yes. Our seats are held as embedded contractors working in-house with your company, not as external counsel, so the model travels: it works for established operating companies across Canada, for larger organizations bridging a leadership gap, and for growth companies building out their first legal function.