There are many reasons that your business should find and retain a business lawyer to address your legal needs. Having an attorney on retainer ensures that you will not have to scramble to find “the right lawyer” at a time of legal difficulty. By having a business attorney on retainer, you can have the advantage of time to work out a prudent legal strategy with your attorney — hence increasing your chances to prevail.
- Business Partner(s)
As human beings, we inherently expect that other individuals, especially business partners that were carefully screened and selected will act in good faith and honor their fiduciary duties to the company. Often, to make sure that all business partners live up to their obligations, we have an attorney draft a partnership agreement that is executed by all partners. The purpose of a partnership agreement is to clearly outline each partner’s expectation of the other partner(s).
You do not want to make the mistake of finding out two years into the business that your business partner is a fraud that hastily abandons the business when times get tough. Without the benefit of a partnership agreement up front, the remaining partner(s) has only expensive litigations options to pursue the dishonest partner.
- Disgruntled Employees
Employees can and do sue their bosses and the companies that they work for when they believe that they have been harmed in some way as a result of their employment. An employee may claim, for example that are working in a hostile work environment and file a lawsuit for this reason. There are many other reasons why employers become frustrated enough to file a lawsuit. Exercise proper performance management and inspiring leadership, and chances are, these good practices will minimize the amount of employee dissatisfaction to the level of a lawsuit.
Be prepared for an employee lawsuit if it happens by consulting with your retained attorney. Even if your business attorney is not a litigation attorney, she/he can recommend an expert in that area and help brief them about the case.
- Breach of Contract
Every business, whatever its size has a contractor or vendor that they have negotiated and executed contracts with. A rigorous process was likely used to insure that the contract terms were fair for both sides and had reasonable expectations on the part of the buyer and seller of a service or product. In this scenario, the business is the buyer, and the contractor or vendor is the seller. Often, a business attorney can step in with an informal letter to the vendor and inform them of their breach of the contract, if one occurs.
- There is no App or Software to Replace a Business Attorney
Finally, and most importantly, in order to maintain profitable operations for the business, it is important to recognize that attorneys cannot be replaced by an App or a software package or any other technology. Business attorneys are highly skilled and specialized lawyers whose services help to legally protect the business. The internet can be a great resource to answer simple legal questions, but a retained business attorney can manage the situation through complex laws and court processes.
There are several websites that offer background data and customer reviews about business attorneys. For example, avvo.com provides contact information for various types of attorneys and users are able to post specific questions that are answered by experts in their specific area of practice. This site can help to streamline the process of finding and retaining the right lawyer for your business.
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