Incorporating Business Strategies In Study Of Corporate Law

Corporate strategy is built on the foundation business strategy, which is the key dynamic for any business and its profitability.  

Legal counsellors frequently assume the basic role in the improvement of business organizations. However, in contrast to numerous other management roles, attorneys are consistently endowed with one of a kind benefit to block certain activities, which can be a major issue for fast-moving businesses. In this way, when scaling up, organizations need to guarantee that their in-house lawyers are aptly lined up with the business culture and are fit for driving their particular needs in sync with the standards as much as dealing with the legal issues.  

Since it is apparent that corporate lawyers need not only cater to their client company’s legal matters but also need to understand their core business and respective industries with proper insight, several law schools have now incorporated business strategy as one of the prime subjects in the study of corporate law.  

Let’s take a closer look at how this inclusion is beneficial for both corporate law understudies and business alike:  

It enables the attorneys to be able to explain risks and opportunities in an effective manner 

One of the chief responsibilities of a corporate lawyer is to advise and teach their associates about potential legal risks, in the simplest manner, and put them in a superior position to survey and analyze those risks against operational prerequisites and seemingly promising windows of opportunity.  

Utilizing the concluded articulations to shut off any action that point to risk other than the business’s most conventional game-plan may absolve the legal advisor from his/her dynamic responsibility — but it may not always be in sync with the business’s long term needs and goals.  

With the right knowledge, corporate attorneys can assess significant data and form actionable strategies that open the door to eloquent solutions and help the organization's decision-makers in making the correct choice.  

It teaches corporate law aspirants to mitigate risk and not just by pass it 

Corporate lawyers need to deal with the organization's reputational and legal risks, yet it is not always in good faith to by pass all risk. For instance, a less compliant solution that is less expensive may be a better choice than the most apparent solution that requires more funds in the wake of a business’s financial situation.  

To appropriately assess all the possible options, the lawyers must possess the ability to do the math and apply logical reasoning to support their judgment. This implies evaluating: 

The cost of every possible option ;

The probability that any option could be tested and judged lawfully inadequate under appropriate legal contract, guideline or rule; 

The remedial expense in under any circumstance the organization is required to modify its underlying strategy.  

Despite the fact that corporate lawyers don't have to suggest the most minimal net-present-cost alternative for each solution, an understanding of business strategy and conduct helps them understand and thus put them in a better position to advocate for the best business solution, which may not necessarily be the conventional solution. 

It empowers corporate lawyers to be a part of business conversations other than legal 

Most attorneys will experience difficulty extending strategic advice if they cannot fully understand and be a part of business issues. Furthermore, if lawyers do not comprehend the operational subtleties and view their job as only responding to legal inquiries raised at different interims by others, there is a high chance that they eventually become confined from the business after some time.  

This is because, with a limited perspective, the business leaders and managers are less likely to have them as a part of business conversations. In this manner, comprehension of business strategy can aid corporate law aspirants to learn how to effectively engage with the business and take wholehearted responsibility for the organization's business targets.

Dr Sukhvinder Singh Dari

Guest Author The author is Director, Symbiosis Law School, Nagpur