As a counselor, a business lawyer needs to bring its clients make the best strategic choice for themselves, and should defend their interests against the opposing partyIn everyday life, the business lawyer will: - search for customers for himself or his firm to be listening to the problems of the customer, answer his questions - develop and present solutions - learn, be aware of competitive markets - draw up contracts, oversee the signature - negotiate, change transactions - determine the rights and duties of the parties to set - up the financial structure is adequate - advise the client in its best interests - to defend the interests of the client - participate to projects of the enterprise (legal framework) - estimate time and the preliminary steps - advocate in court. The business lawyer is not judged on the quantity of his work, but on the quality. It is expected that he knows everything about everything and can answer all sorts of questions, from the simplest to the most complex. To do this, they need a solid formation, or to be surrounded by a team that completes it.
A business lawyer must show inventive to think of solutions in all contexts.
A perfect strategist, one rents his sense of analysis, its spirit of synthesis, its rigor, and tenacity. He has necessarily a very good relationship with its customers (but also with its 'opponents'). As a general rule, he speaks English, since it is the language of business. Its capacity of expression should also show in the writing The more it is organized, and the better it can respond rapidly to the expectations. Professional secrecy required, it is a person who knows how to be discreet.
The statistics speak for themselves: more than fifty of the tray five, who occupy the positions of corporate lawyers.
After a bachelor's degree (ideally in section economic and social), the future business lawyer undertakes the study of law. He must at minimum get a master a (master's level) Then, it must integrate a regional center of professional training of lawyers (CRFPA) in order to release the CAPA (certificate of aptitude to the profession of lawyer). The CAPA is a contest very difficult to which one may only stand three times. Then, the business lawyer is hired within a company - this can be an SME in the province, which will give him her time to family life, or a large multinational which he sacrificed his days and his nights, or it includes a firm: the French practices are sized so that the firms English - the majority - are large machines with multiple dozens of lawyers with various skills and international networks. He can also sign in an audit firm A lawyer business, to grow professionally, can make the choice to train still more to specialize, or diversify its customer base, or even that of integrating firms always the most prestigious. After obtaining a bachelor (but also L-or S -), it is necessary to enrol in a master of law. Depending on the orientation that you want to give your career, there are several professional masters courses in law, economy and management mention the public law or public reference to private law, with specialties: judicial careers, litigation, public, ethical, and health, etc, It is not unlikely that future business lawyers choose to take a masters in a business school also. After obtaining the master degree in law, you must successfully enter into a regional centre of professional training of lawyers (CRFPA): the entrance exam to the CRFPA is very selective (admitted about). There, you will be prepared for you to present for the competition for obtaining the certificate of aptitude to the profession of lawyer (CAPA), which is called 'the bar exam', and that can only be passed three times. The profession is not among those that recruit the most in France, but the job of a business lawyer seduced because of the significant compensation found.
If business lawyers are only twenty lawyers in our country, they are the ones who pocket of the total compensation awarded to the legal profession.
There are two types of business lawyers: those who work for small businesses and for medium sized firms in france, notably in the province, and who earn a decent living while keeping free time for family, friends, and activities, and those who earn a lot of money without counting their hours in the larger firms in the marketplace. It is this image very anglo-saxon of the business lawyer that is a dream. Sectors associated with the business: Audit, consulting, Expertise, Law, justice, and Materials related to the business: general Culture and expression, Right.
