Whilst nobody intentionally hires a mediocre commercial lawyer, finding a good one is often quite difficult. The challenge for most business leaders is that they don’t understand the law – if they did, they wouldn’t need to hire a lawyer – and so it is difficult to penetrate beneath the legalese to assess a potential lawyer’s technical capabilities.

Having an excellent commercial lawyer on your side shouldn’t be thought of as a business luxury, it should be considered as an essential need for your business’s’ growth and protection. There are many benefits to having a commercial lawyer on the team, many of which surprise even seasoned business people. Here are just five.

Optimism is a very valuable resource in business, but it has one downside. It can lead a person to not prepare properly for when things go wrong. That’s what specialist start-up lawyers are for, not just to help a start-up cope when it hits a pothole, but to help steer it around those potholes in the first place. Here are just 4 of the surprising ways a start-up lawyer can support you.

The best commercial lawyers are not always the ones you think of first. It’s natural to pursue high profile lawyers with decades of courtroom experience and an established name, and in many cases, they will bring value to your business.

A commercial lawyer that you highly trust, work closely with and is empowered within your organisation, is key to your business’s success. Why? Well, you are more likely to keep making leaps, bounds and keeping ahead of the legal game.