A small mom & pop can get along with occasional consultations, but topping a million in sales, having subsidiaries, a supply chain outside the US, and such make having counsel desirable. It’s just that legal counsel’s costs are seen only as expenses because they are not an active profit center. Of course, they could be saving the entire company by avoiding losses, but that requires decision makers humble enough to at least recognize their own mistakes, and be aware of the connection between those screw-ups and the money that the in-house counsel saved from being lost.
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