What Business Lawyers Do
Business lawyers:
- Help business clients structure and develop their businesses
- Represent, private, public and non-profit businesses or entrepreneurs of all sizes
- Navigate core business law concepts, strategic planning options, and specialized expertise, including complex statutes and regulations
- Practice in firms of all sizes, including solo practice, and in-house for a specific company or organization
Who Might Enjoy This Specialty?
You might enjoy practicing business law if you:
- Enjoy and communicate effectively with non-lawyer business owners, entrepreneurs, and executives
- Like to work in teams in a collaborative, non-adversarial process
- “Speak business” and understand core business and accounting concepts and basic planning challenges and solutions
- Think strategically and like the game of “what if?” or “if, then”
- Creatively solve problems and develop solutions with a positive “can-do” mindset
- Negotiate effectively
- Are not drawn to the courtroom
- Write well and enjoy drafting precise language
- Thrive on detail-oriented, complex technical challenges
- Aspire to work as corporate or in-house counsel