What sort of legal support does your business need?

When a business owner reaches out to me for the first time, sometimes they know what they need, what legal support they need, and sometimes they don't.

Almost inevitably, at some point in that first conversation, there'll be something along the lines of, what else do I need, Tracy? How can I work with you? What support do you think I need? Because it's something that comes up so often when I'm having discussions with business owners for the first time, I wanted to unpack my approach here and share it with you because so that you too have the benefit of understanding how you can work with a business lawyer like me and what legal support you may or may not need in your business.

Or you might need something now and it might look a bit different later.

So I'm going to share with you how I approach this and the way I work with businesses so that you can understand what your business needs and how to best support your business legally moving forward.

First thing to say, though, is that lawyers are all different.

What works for one won't work for another.

And the way I work may not be suitable to the way another lawyer works.

So I'm not saying here this is how everybody works.

Other lawyers might have something very similar or a variation of what I do or something completely different.

Horses for courses, as they say.

There's lawyers and there's lawyers.

And I make no apology on this podcast of saying to my listeners, I'm not the lawyer for everybody.

I am very holistic in my approach.

I'm very collaborative.

I'm very involved in the process when I work with a client.

Relationships to me are very important.

The main driver for what I do in my business is around relationships because I want to genuinely enrich the lives of the business owners that I work with.

And I want to do that through my legal expertise and through setting business owners up for success legally.

That doesn't suit everyone and that's okay.

Some people don't want to talk to their lawyer.

They just want a document where they can change the names and they don't want to spend the time and that's okay.

I'm not the lawyer for that person and I'm okay with that.

So this is how I work and this is the type of discussion I have with new business owners when they first reach out.