Introduction to Types of Legal Work and Practice Groups
Photo by Clarisse Meyer on Unsplash Broadly, there are 3 types of legal work: 1. Transactional – reviewing, negotiating, drafting and advising on legal documents such as agreements and deeds to facilitate commercial transactions between your client and other parties. Examples of transactional practice areas include mergers and acquisitions (M&A), private equity (PE), funds, banking and finance (B&F), technology, media and telecommunications (TMT), real estate and front-end construction. 2. Litigation and Dispute Resolution – advising on the resolution of disputes between your client and other parties through dispute resolution processes such as litigation (i.e. court proceedings), arbitration, expert determination or mediation. Examples of litigious practice areas include commercial litigation, commissions and investigations, arbitration, restructuring and insolvency, intellectual property litigation, defamation, back-end construction, insurance, class actions, tax litigatio...