Lawyers as Economic Drivers — The Business Case for Legal Services

Lawyers bring the skills of an entrepreneur to clients, modeling and sharing those skills in a manner that transcends the actual legal product or service. Lawyers have a passion beyond the practice of law to create, sustain, and preserve things of value, whether those things are families, businesses, nonprofits, intellectual property, public works, or government programs. Many rationales — economic, social, access, political, educational, professional, and justice — support that lawyers are economically productive. What makes an American nation more likely to survive and prosper in a continually new political and economic order is its founding vision — free, open, democratic, diverse, unified, and committed to eternal values. The adaptive knowledge, skills, and identity of the nation's lawyers implement that vision, not as a professional elite but at a granular level, client by client, family by family, employer by employer