Business Lawyer’s Handbook: What Business Lawyers Do

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Business Lawyer’s Handbook provides a realistic introduction to the life and work of the business lawyer and describes the principal day-to-day tasks of business lawyers and offers helpful advice for succeeding as a business lawyer in turbulent times. Chapters include: monitoring a client’s legal environment; counseling on specific aspects of law that affect a client’s business; managing and negotiating important business transactions; drafting documents and getting deals done; dealing with government agencies; resolving thorny ethical issues that are peculiar to the business lawyer’s environment; successfully negotiating the business lawyer’s law career planning path; surviving “law office politics” and making partner in a law firm; making the transition from private practice to in-house corporate counsel (and vice versa); and the three steps to success in any legal law career planning.