<p>Hey! I'm a finance major. Besides corporate law, what other field of law could I consider? Also, does a background in finance actually help corporate lawyers?</p>
<p>When attorneys use the term "corporate lawyer," they're generally using the term to designate those attorneys who principally advise corporations on such matters as corporate governance, shareholder resolutions, quarterly reports, mergers and acquisitions, and the like. </p>
<p>I've known several corporate lawyers (in that very narrow sense) who majored in economics as undergraduates, one who majored in English, and a couple who majored in history.</p>
<p>My wife and my boss are both lawyers who have undergraduate business degrees. Both have focused in their careers on commercial licensing agreements more than anything else.</p>
<p>My wife believes her undergraduate business degree was a useful background for a business-oriented law practice. On the other hand, I have not found my undergraduate degree in history to have been an impediment to my in-house corporate practice (which also focuses on international commercial licensing transactions, at the moment).</p>
<p>Finance majors probably tend to gravitate toward careers where their clients are corporations; I'd guess it's more a function of their interests than anything else.</p>
<p>Don't feel like you have to chose an area of practice to match your undergraduate training, or that you have to tailor your undergraduate education to an imagined future area of law practice. </p>
<p>That said, lawyers who specialize in bankruptcy, real estate, securities (stocks and bonds), or insurance coverage have practices related at least peripherally to finance.</p>