Most students coming into law school aren’t really thinking about corporate law as a career choice, according to Neil Taylor, director of the Corporate Law Center at the University of Cincinnati, but it’s an option he wants them to keep on the table
Corporate law is more than mergers and acquisitions, says Taylor. It includes lawyers who specialize in areas such as labor and employment, real estate, and compliance or are generalists covering many topics for a corporate client.
“When I started law school, I thought I wanted to be an environmental lawyer,” explains Taylor, who graduated from UC College of Law in 1991. “I didn’t have lawyers in my family so I had no idea that an environmental lawyer practices administrative and regulatory law.”
“That might seem obvious to some people, but it certainly wasn’t to me,” says Taylor. “But when I started law school I learned pretty quickly that there were a lot of different areas that interested me more, including appellate practice and corporate law.”
There was no Corporate Law Center at UC Law when Taylor was a student so he chartered his own career path. That journey spanned more than three decades of legal and business experience. He spent a decade as a litigator, nearly 20 years as a corporate lawyer and five years running a startup corporation.
Taylor wore many hats including roles as general counsel of a Luxembourg-based emerging markets...
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