Corporate Lawyers
By Tiffany Yang
Duties
- Ensure the legality of business practices and transaction
- Understand laws and regulations to help their clients and companies work within legal boundaries
- Provide legal guidance for employers and clients
- Begin a new case by meeting with clients and trying to understand the details of the legal issue. This may include reading corporate filings and consulting with other attorneys
- Research prior cases and look for established precedents
- During a trial, make opening and closing arguments in addition to examining and cross-examining witnesses
Practice Environments
Majority work full time
- Many work 40+ hours / week
- Some corporate lawyers work in courtrooms and represent their clients in front of a judge and jury
- Although corporate lawyers typically work for large companies, they may also be self-employed and contract themselves out to many different firms.
Compensation
$169,890 for lawyers working in the management of companies and enterprises
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Compensation
Education & Training
Education & Training
Admission into law school usually entails completing a bachelor's degree program and achieving a qualifying score on the Law School Admission Test. Once admitted, law students spend most of the first few semesters covering concepts like torts and property rights. During the last year-and-a-half, students begin to take business law and tax law classes. Topics typically range from corporate accounting to taxation.
Obtain a Juris Doctor from a law school accredited by the American Bar Association and pass the bar exam in order to practice.
Hold a 3-year Juris Doctor (J.D.)
Jerilyn Deitz
- A law student does not need to graduate with an undergraduate degree relating to law in order to go to law school
- The only law schools in the state of Wisconsin is Marquette University and the University of Wisconsin- Madison