If you run a business, you want your entire team aligned behind
your efforts. Obviously, the Sales and
Marketing personnel are interested in revenue and number of units sold, but
does your support staff understand the sales process as well as fixed,
variable, short term, and long term costs?
Your legal counsel should be as interested in business as you
are. Counsel with a background in
business can relate to your problems and offer solutions that make sense in
your environment. The legal experience
provides the boundaries while the business experience provides the innovation
and practical understanding. In-house
attorneys handling transactions need to be even-keeled, patient, detail-oriented
individuals who can catch potential problems to save your business from
disaster. To do that, your counsel needs
the breadth of knowledge from years of exposure outside of law schools, law
firms, and legal departments. To be a
true team member, the individual you hire for this role should be comfortable
interacting with all levels within the company and should be a potential
resource to be tapped should a need occur on the business side.
If your legal counsel cannot relate to the truck drivers, the work
crews, the sales reps, the office staff, the accounting team, the executives,
and the board members, you may wish to consider a change. Consider bringing in a well-rounded
individual to represent your interests.
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