The theme of Up4Scale is to promote for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) the benefits of working towards an independent transition to scale, rather than relying upon a previously external valuation such as markets or a private equity acquisition. One area where entrepreneurial SMEs can help to bring this about is through a career in the Minnesota Courts – literally, through court clerkships and judgeships – but also indirectly, by gaining experience in the legal system and how to navigate it for the purposes of international commercialization by the SMEs routes of the MN Courts.

Ultimately, MSME careers will potentially promote cash flow in the range of operational and development stages, particularly in the context of international commercialization strategies and green transition strategies, whereby the business model sustainably ‘adapts’ in tandem to environmental-technology-scientific and socio-political-commercial factors. The early-stage type of legal work which the MN Courts offer can provide opportunities for MSME personnel to be able to help the SME navigate the legal system or the similarity to doing so – think, for example, of how an in-house counsel experience with one firm can help a lawyer who leaves that position to grow another firm, as a land-grab re-focuses commercial attorneys upon different aspects of environmental law as well as contract and/or commercial claim litigation.

From an MSME-scaling perspective, a full-time and/or in-house attorney will have the ability to be able to get legal questions answered internally, but also have the ability to write up ‘executive briefs’ on how the situation may evolve both from a technical-publication point of view as well from a commercial-relationship point of view, as tasks which the practice of law promotes – particularly when dealing with new technologies and business practices. At the end of the day, the MN Courts provides excellent job opportunities for MSMEs – but also are able to provide the very ‘executives’ who can end up being hired by private enterprises to help them grow at a pace greater than what the private sector or individual – accident reporting – initiatives may allow for.