What are corporate attorneys?

A corporate attorney is a person who handles legal issues for a corporation, either as "in-house" counsel, or "out-house" (ahem) "outside counsel".

Corporate law is a broad topic, but generally includes the laws related to the organization structure itself (corporation, LLC, public/private, non-profit, foreign, etc), employees (contracts, labor relations, regulatory compliance), investors/securities (stocks, meetings, reporting, etc), real-estate (ownership/lease, uses, liability), insurance (corporate, directors and officers, premises, special risks), contracts (buying and selling goods or services, licenses, etc), regulatory law (licenses, inspections, compliance, reports), business law (contracts, sales, payments, shipping, warranty), and all the potential fines, complaints and other litigation that can possibly arise for these or related issues.

Depending upon how large the corporation is, or the type of industry, there may be other issues related to torts, crimes, contracts, Consitutional law, and so forth. For example, the could be intellectual property (copyrights, patents, trade secrets) or export regulations (international trade in arms, export administration, license to have non-citizen employees working on advanced technologies, etc).