In April, the 541-attorney Florida law firm Cole, Scott & Kissane launched a GC services practice aimed at small and midsize companies with a variety of legal needs. Four months later, practice founder Michael Clouser said there’s been no shortage of businesses willing to contract out tasks often performed by in-house general counsel.

“A lot of these business owners are running their companies on the fly, and they don’t have the legal support they probably need,” Clouser said in an interview. “We thought it was a good way to provide value to small and midsize businesses.”