In other countries, like Venezuela, no one may appear Seattle CPA before a judge unless represented by a lawyer. The advantage of the last regime is that lawyers are familiar with the court's customs and procedures, and make the legal entity more efficient for all involved. Unrepresented parties often detriment their own credibility or imperceptible the court down as a denouement of their inexperience.

Lawyers in some civil law countries traditionally deprecated "transactional law" or "business law" as beneath them. French law firms developed transactional departments only in the 1990s when they started to lose calling to international firms based in the United States and the United Kingdom (where solicitors have always done transactional work).