Your Business Advisor, Not Just Lawyer

15 Jun 2026 · 1 min

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In this brief monologue, CJ (a lawyer) urges clients to view their attorney as a business advisor and counselor rather than solely a legal counsel. He explains that he is available to answer non‑legal questions such as insurance, healthcare, and benefits, and that he has built a trusted Rolodex of providers over the years. By leveraging these relationships, CJ can act as a liaison—reaching out to third‑party companies on a client’s behalf and ensuring they receive attentive service. The overall message is that a lawyer can function as part of a broader support team, offering proactive, holistic assistance to help clients run their businesses more smoothly.

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The way that I would tell people to kind of train us is think of us as like your business advisors, not just your legal counsel. Yeah. And I tell clients all the time, you know, if it's not even a legal question, if you have a question with insurance, you know, your healthcare, your benefits, you know, call me. I've built a Rolodex of providers over my years, and these are people that are going to treat my client as if I would treat them because they know I send them a lot of work and they have to stay in my good graces. So I have clients, you know, I can't get ahold of so-and-so at XYZ company. I go, well, let me reach out to them. And typically they're like, hey CJ, I didn't know that was your client. You know, we're just busy, whatever, but we'll give them a call back. So sometimes just having that, that team around you. Mm-hmm. Thinking of us as a team and not necessarily just your lawyer. Think of us as your business counselor.