Monthly Archive for May, 2009

Understanding a client’s business is essential to providing outstanding legal services. Therefore, extensive research and investigation of the client’s business should be done when the lawyer is retained and it should be continually updated. To fully understand a client’s business, a primary source should be written materials relating specifically to the client’s business and more [...]

The lawyer-client relationship can vary considerably, depending upon the business and needs of the client. It can also depend upon the client’s reasons for retaining the lawyer. In the case of general corporate clients, the work may include a full range of services such as contracts, real estate, human resources, marketing, and transactional matters involving [...]

The role of a corporate lawyer may be extremely varied depending upon the needs of the client, the purpose or purposes for which the corporate lawyer is retained, the applicable circumstances, the expectations and needs of a client and the corporate lawyer’s personal views of the role and responsibility of the lawyer both as a [...]