What Lawyers Do

Colleague and co-blogger Ralph Perez notes over at his website that:

I recently had a client say, “there’s a reason the bar exam is so hard, you guys are expensive.” Her statement reminds me that clients often aren’t sure exactly what I do. They understand that they are receiving some sort of value for what they pay me but because legal services are generally intangible, it is sometimes hard for them to put a dollar value on what I do. I thought I’d explain exactly what lawyers do.

Ralph goes on to answer the question, "What do lawyers do?"