FRACTIONAL GENERAL COUNSEL SERVICES
CAMERON BANKS LAW offers Fractional General Counsel Services to provide your organization with the expertise of an experienced in-house attorney, without the cost or commitment of a full-time hire. We help you make clear, ethical, strategic decisions that strengthen credibility, reduce liability, and protect reputation. Because doing the right thing is not optional -- it is foundational.
Legal Protection Rooted in Integrity. Credible Guidance Built on Trust. Every organization faces legal risk—whether you are building something new, advancing a mission, managing public responsibility, or supporting stakeholders and investors. What you need is not just legal answers, you need trusted legal leadership.
Accessible Legal Counsel: Maximum efficiency. Minimum Drag.
CAMERON BANKS LAW offers clients accessible legal leadership from someone who can understand and align with your goals, mission, and operational realities. That means no bloated retainers, unpredictable billing, or junior associates on a learning curve, Indira cuts straight to the chase with direct, principal-level attention at a fraction of the cost of a full-time general counsel or traditional Big Law engagement. We can provide an arrangement that Flexible hourly arrangements, monthly retainers, project-based support, or executive level advice and counsel arrangements, results in an arrangement that scales with your need and priorities.
Strategic Insight Forged in Real Consequences. In her almost twenty-five years of experience in public service and private practice, Indira has learned what actually works -- and what catastrophically fails -- when legal strategy meets business reality. From preemptive compliance structuring to crisis response, contract negotiation to internal investigations, she brings foresight that anticipates issues before they escalate.
We can offer support to a diverse range of organizations, each with unique obligations and accountability standards, including, but not limited to, startups in need of a strong legal infrastructure to grow responsibly; nonprofits and mission-driven organizations that must protect donors, beneficiaries, and board leadership; investor-backed and portfolio companies balancing innovation with compliance and risk control; public institutions and universities operating under heightened scrutiny and regulatory oversight; public and private companies managing governance, disclosure, and stakeholder trust. With ongoing strategic counsel, we support your operations in areas such as: corporate governance; board and executive-team advice; contract drafting, review, and negotiation; risk assessment and compliance program design; employment and HR guidance; trade secret protection and policies; crisis management and internal investigations; regulatory interface and government inquiries; pre-transaction due diligence and structuring; data privacy and regulatory compliance; ethical decision-making frameworks; strategic planning and legal-risk audits; public image and reputation.
Cameron Banks Law Advantage: Authoritative guidance built on experience and credibility.
When Indira speaks, people listen. Indira’s background translates directly into instant authority with regulators, opposing counsel, investors, and boards. Her battle-tested legal experience is matched by her senior management experience.
At the U.S. Attorney’s Office, she directly supervised and managed several large teams, and responsible for personnel, policies, budgeting decisions affecting the entire office – one of the largest within the U.S. Dept. of Justice. She served as the Chief of the Financial Litigation Section, Special Counsel to the United States Attorney, and a faculty member teaching the U.S. Dept. of Justice’s National Advocacy Center specifically teaching effective management techniques. She also served on the U.S. Dept. of Justice’s Executive Office for U.S. Attorneys’ Evaluation and Review Staff conducting management audits of various U.S. Attorneys Offices across the country.
When she left the U.S. Dept. of Justice, she went to direct the Los Angeles County’s singular grant to provided unhoused people, and extremely vulnerable tenants with legal services. In that role, Indira managed millions of dollars in government and foundational grants, and oversaw the work of six major legal services corporations in the county, while providing substantive supervision guidance to legal staff and attorneys new to the profession. Indira has sat as a Board Member on the California State Board of Pharmacy, and currently sits as a Council Member on the California Civil Rights Council. And she continues to serve as an Advisory Board Member at RAND Corporation.
In her practice, Indira has been called on senior executive leadership -- including general counsel -- to provide strategic advice and guidance in crisis situations, chronic “long term” issues, protracted complex litigation, and investigations. With her clients she has remained a trusted voice in closed-door leadership conversations, and oftentimes plays a recurring role within their organizations.
As an entrepreneurial small business owner herself, Indira understands how important it is for organizations to have a strong legal foundation to support their mission, and match their vision.
