The lawyer's mindset
Recently, one of my colleagues who works in Kolmar’s treasury department asked me whether I liked being a lawyer. I found it curious that the question did not contemplate working in a legal capacity or doing legal work, but instead, being ‘a lawyer’ as if it is a thing.
Based on that question I began to think about the differences between the business side of what we do and the legal side of what we do. In the end, I concluded that the overlap is about how we each see and manage risk. Therefore, that is the foundation on which I have written this article – how risk is navigated through the eyes of the law department; that lens being what I call ‘Lawyerland’.
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