The law sector is a small world, after all ? a small-business world. Large corporations may move and shake the industry with high-profile lawsuits and big-money contract negotiations, but small businesses make the world go ?round with their consistent and ever-evolving legal needs, say local business lawyers.
Michael Nixt, an attorney at Minneapolis- based Moss & Barnett, calls them the ?bread-and-butter? clients. His firm isn?t the only one tapping into that market. Several prominent Minnesota law firms boast special units specifically designed to cover the wide range of advice and services small businesses require. And in the current bear market, with the tide of mergers and acquisitions receding in the Twin Cities, small-business clients provide law firms a steady diet of work.