Attorney April N. Richardson has ridden along in a client’s sewer truck. She has stood in a gutted, dilapidated building alongside a general contractor, walking the space her client is renovating into a childcare center. None of that is technically her job. All of it, she says, is exactly her job.
“I am not that lawyer. I am a dirty lawyer. I’m gonna jump in your business with you,” says Richardson, who runs DIRTY GIRL LEGAL, a Baltimore law firm built for entrepreneurs.
For Black Business Month, the Baltimore Times sat down with Richardson to talk about one of the four pillars every business owner needs in their corner: the right attorney. Not just any lawyer. The right one…