 1. Contracts. You will need a lawyer who can understand your business rapidly; organize the standard form contracts you will need with customers, clients and suppliers; and help you answer to contracts that other people will want you to sign.
2. Business organizations. You will need a lawyer who can help you make a decision whether a corporation or limited problem company is the better way to put in order your business, and prepare the required paperwork.
3. Real estate. Leases of profit-making space such as offices and sell stores are highly compound and are always drafted to help the property-owner. Because they lean to be "printed form" documents, you may be tempted to think they are not convenient. Your attorney should have a standard "tenant's addendum," containing necessities that benefit you, that can be added to the printed form rent document.
4. Taxes and licenses. Although your accountant will put in order and organizer your business tax profits each year, your lawyer should know how to register your business for federal and state tax identification numbers, and understand the tax consequences of the more basic business dealings in which your business will take on.
5. Intellectual property. If you are in a media, design or other creative-type business, you need specialists who do only "intellectual property" officially permitted work. If your lawyer says he or she "specializes in small businesses," then he or she should have a close working relationship with one or more intellectual property specialist.
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