Business Lawyer & Corporate Lawyer Job Description
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Nakase Wade law firm represents companies, businesses, and employers – exclusively.
What does a Business Lawyer Do & What Does a Corporate Lawyer Do?
Business Lawyer Job Description
- Negotiating the terms of contracts, settlements, and transactions on behalf of all parties.
- Ensuring all business actions, strategies, and processes comply with local, state, federal, and international laws.
- Resolving legal disputes through researching and analyzing local laws, developing strong arguments, collecting evidence, and strong courtroom representation.
- Assisting business to prevent, navigate, and resolve complex legal issues.
- Managing multiple legal activities, clients, and cases with close attention to various deadlines.
- Drafting, reviewing, completing, and filing legal paperwork with close liaison with the clients.
- Analysis of business policies and operations and reporting any current or potential legal issues to the relevant
- Advising and assisting businesses who are establishing their company’s policies, objectives, structure, and procedures for operating their business.
- Ensuring the business understands all relevant laws and outcomes.
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Our business attorneys and corporate attorneys serve businesses in San Diego, Los Angeles, Orange County, Riverside County, or San Bernardino County. For more information, please visit Business and Corporate Lawyer at Lawyeredu.org.
Counties we serve: Los Angeles Business Attorney| Orange County Business Attorney | Riverside County Business Attorney | San Diego County Business Attorney
Corporate Lawyer Job Description
Corporate lawyers have to be quick on their feet and deal with any issue that comes their way. They often meet with management and board members to offer legal and business advice, and to strategize. Other duties include:
- Negotiating employee contracts
- Formulating employee handbooks
- Reviewing new business relationships with subcontractors and vendors
- Structuring joint ventures with other businesses
- Drafting legal documents
- Administering training workshops
- Analyzing proposed products for any legal issues
- Supervising outside lawyers assisting with specialized legal needs
- Preparing and filing government reports
- Making sure managers comply with regulations
- Representing the corporation in court trials and before administrative boards
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If your business is located in Los Angeles, San Diego,Orange County, or San Bernardino County, or Riverside County – we invite you to contact our business and corporate attorneys. For more information on job description, please visit: https://www.betterteam.com/corporate-lawyer-job-description
Counties we serve:
Business Attorney Los Angeles | Business Attorney Orange County, CA| Business Attorney Riverside County, CA | Business Attorney San Diego
Employment Lawyers
Employment lawyers help with several issues that can arise in a diverse workplace. They can assist both employers and employees in interpreting the federal, state, and local employment laws that assure the fair treatment of employees.
Employment lawyers can counsel and represent clients on these issues:
- Employment benefits such as retirement plans, and leaves of absence
- Sexual harassment
- Termination of employment
- Wage and overtime standards
- Workplace safety
- Discrimination against protected like medical conditions, race, religion, sex, national origin, age, marital status, ancestry, disability, skin color, creed, or sexual orientation
- Workers’ compensation
- Privacy Rights
Employment lawyers can also review employment contracts and advise their clients about their employment rights. They can mediate between employers and employees, recommend legal action, and represent employers in lawsuits. Also, an employment attorney can represent your business in state or federal court, or in front of a government administrative board. You may find more information at the California Employment Lawyer Association.
We are masters of preventive lawyering, providing your business with a strong foundation of contracts, policies, and procedures which minimize conflict and therefore lawsuits with your employees. We also ensure your business always complies with federal, state, and local laws.
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If you’re an employer, we ready and able to assist your business in these counties: Los Angeles, San Diego,Orange County, or San Bernardino County, or Riverside County – we invite you to contact our business and corporate attorneys.
Counties we serve:
Business Lawyers Los Angeles | Business Lawyers Orange County, CA| Business Lawyers Riverside County, CA | Business Lawyers San Diego
Incorporation Lawyers
The incorporation process is complex, and this prevents many people from taking the step of starting their own corporation. However, incorporating has many benefits such as tax savings and liability protection.
As corporation attorneys, we explain the benefits of incorporating a business, and the different corporate structures available to businesses. When a client is ready, we will walk them through incorporating their business. We can also help with managing their annual corporate records to make the process effective and straight forward.
Affordable Small Business Lawyer, Free Consultation
Many small business owners wrongly assume that a business lawyer will cost an arm and a leg, and therefore will only hire one when they have a serious legal problem. Hiring a business lawyer will usually save you money in the long run as they can help you to put processes in place to ensure you don’t have serious legal problems in the first place. The US Department of Treasury has a definition for “small business.”
When your business runs into problems like the following, it is wise to hire a business lawyer:
- Your business is involved in an environmental issue, even if your business did not cause it
- You are negotiating the sale of your company
- You are negotiating the acquisition of another company or its assets
- Your business is being investigated or have claims filed by a local, state, or federal entity
- You want to allocate your profits or losses or contribute appreciated property to your LLC or partnership agreement
- Employees are suing based on hostile work environment or discrimination during hiring or firing
Counties we serve:
Business Attorney Los Angeles | Business Attorney Orange County, CA| Business Attorney Riverside County, CA | Business Attorney San Diego
Litigation Lawyers
If you need to file a legal claim or defend your business against one, you need a litigation attorney. They represent you and your business in the courtroom, but their job isn’t as glamorous as the movies might suggest. If someone sues you, you need to speak to a litigation attorney rather than trying to defend yourself against the claim. Here are some other examples of when you need to hire a litigation attorney:
- Professional disputes within your business
- Wrongful termination due to discrimination
- An employee suing you for discrimination
- Settling a past debt
- An ex-partner or spouse not paying financial support
- Being injured in an accident
You can also seek the counsel of a litigation attorney for legal advice or assistance in mediating a disagreement. Litigation lawyers have several tools available that can help avoid a lawsuit, or put you in the best position if one is filed. If you’re searching for the City of San Diego Civil Litigation Department, go to their website.
Employer Defense Lawyers
No matter the size of their companies, all employers can face lawsuits that may cause loss of goodwill and financial liability. Our expert attorneys defend California employers against employee lawsuits and federal enforcement proceedings.
Even with preventative measures in place, there are bound to be disputes with employees. Disputes can cause negative press and costly disruptions to business, even if they are false claims.
An employment lawyer can help you navigate the tricky situation and help you resolve it before it gets blown out of proportion. The best approach is not to go on the offensive, but to seek an employment attorneys assistance in mediating between you and your employee. It is important to be the sort of employer who listens to their employees and makes them feel like they can bring issues to your attention without retaliation. More information is available at the Department of Labor website.
However, there is a thin line that needs to be walked in these situations. You need to protect your business, and you have shareholders and other employees to answer to.
Business Defense Lawyers
We have extensive experience in commercial and business law. We have represented clients in state and federal court for several lawsuits, protecting them from up to multimillion-dollar claims.
The first thing our lawyers do when they are brought in is to assess the risks involved in and surrounding the case. From there, we methodically work on cost-effective solutions and recommendations. We provide practical advice and aggressive representation for all of our clients, no matter the lawsuit.
Our law firm is smaller and more nimble than most in California, meaning we have more time and energy to devote to our clients. Every member of our team has received recognition for their talents and humanity.
We can help you with business disputes such as:
- Automotive
- Construction
- Contract disputes
- Employment
- Finance
- Franchise
- Health
- High-technology
- Industrial
- Injury
- Insurance law
- Manufacturing
- Real estate
- Securities
- Shipping
We can handle sensitive topics like business divorce, liability claims, and multimillion-dollar shareholder disputes. Our attorneys are extremely responsive and effective communicators who will take the time to ensure you fully understand the issues at hand. Knowing that our talented employment lawyers are on the case will allow you to focus on operations.
Business Litigation Lawyers
If negotiation and arbitration haven’t resolved your dispute, then hiring a business litigation attorney is a good option.
No matter the cause of your dispute, we have extensive experience to your case. We will gather evidence thoroughly and represent you in court aggressively.
Derivative Action Defense Lawyers
A shareholder expects management and the board of directors will always act in the best interest of the shareholders. A failure to act in shareholders best interests breaches fiduciary duty which means that shareholders could take legal action. This legal action is called derivative action.
Derivative action exists to stop managers and boards from acting in their own best interests with self-dealing and self-interested transactions. They can be very complex lawsuits and require quick action, but an experienced lawyer will have the skill to effectively defend your company and resolve the case.
Class Action Defense Lawyer
Class action lawsuits can be difficult for a company, but our lawyers will quickly assess the class action case and aggressively defend and attack it.
We will give you honest advice after understanding all the details of the case. If it is in your best interest to negotiate a settlement, we will assist you to do that. We have successfully navigated class actions which involve millions of electronic documents in the discovery.
We take complex technical, scientific, and multi-jurisdictional issues in our stride and work closely with our clients to resolve the case in the best possible way for your business.
Labor Law Lawyers
No matter how careful you are, you will occasionally need help from a lawyer. Although some employment matters are easy to handle on your own, other issues are very tricky and need legal expertise.
Employment laws change often; the courts and government agencies issue new interpretations every single day, sometimes completely changing the previous interpretation of the law. Lawsuits from employees can be very costly, so it is best to seek legal expertise when you get in over your head.
Corporate Restructuring Lawyers
Restructuring is a distressing time, full of many decisions and emotions. Our corporate restructuring lawyers will allow you to properly position yourself for your business’s future.
We can represent these parties in a corporate restructuring:
- Management
- Companies
- Owners
- Boards of directors
- Lenders
- Creditors
- Acquirors
- Investors
No matter the restructuring transaction, we can give you expert legal advice. We take special care in avoiding and reducing the adverse effects of liquidation through contingency planning and liability management.
Corporate Governance Lawyers
As corporate governance lawyers, we essentially work as crisis counselor to our corporate clients as they navigate high profile and high-risk scenarios. We assist with shareholder communication, best practices, and regulation, etc.
We counsel board members regularly, as well as senior executives, and the full board of directions so they can understand the corporate governance issues they face. Some of the common issues we work on are:
- Board and board committee self-evaluation and evaluation processes
- Risk identification and risk management for the enterprise
- Senior executive and director succession planning
- Reviewing and updating charters and by-laws as best practices and trends evolve
- Board structuring and composition
- Board committee structure and composition
- Senior executive and director compensation planning and policies
- Board committee charters
- Duties of an independent lead director or independent board chair
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