A lawyer skilled in general business law can be an invaluable consultant for any business. General business law includes things as diverse as incorporation, raising money, hiring employees, negotiating contracts and litigating business disputes. A good general business law attorney is skilled at wearing many hats, so to speak, guiding a business through a variety of matters that occur during formation, daily management and periods of high growth or even crisis. Business law is such a large field, however, that more and more attorneys focus on one or more aspects of business law, rather than in general business law. If your attorney is a good general business law professional, he or she may likely bring in specially talented counsel when general business law knowledge is insufficient to handle a particular issue.