In-House Legal Team
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An In-House Legal Team is a legal team that is an organizational subteam.
- Context:
- It can include General Counsel, In-House Lawyers, Paralegals.
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- Example(s):
- a Corporate Legal Department, such as:
- a Government Law Office, such as:
- ...
- Counter-Example(s):
- a Law Firm.
- See: ....
References
2021
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- QUOTE: IN-HOUSE counsel are hired by a corporation's law department to handle a range of legal issues affecting the company, among them employment, policy, tax and regulatory matters. More prevalently, they play a managerial role, overseeing work that's been outsourced to attorneys at independent firms. Depending on the size of the corporation and the nature of its work, in-house attorneys may be either specialists in a certain field or general commercial practitioners; either way, there tend to be fewer litigators working in-house than transactional attorneys since most companies prefer to outsource litigious matters to lawyers at private firms, particularly at the entry level. “When it comes to litigation, they really want people with experience,” a prominent law school careers dean informs us. “There are many more opportunities for entry-level corporate work in-house.”
Because corporate law departments employ significantly fewer attorneys than BigLaw firms, recent graduates have traditionally been at a disadvantage when it comes to getting hired: as another law school bigwig points out, corporate law departments “generally prefer to hire more experienced attorneys rather than graduates straight out of law school.” Indeed, new in-house counsel positions are usually reserved for seasoned recruits with around five-plus years of legal experience, so opportunities to land an in-house position directly after law school remain scarce.
- QUOTE: IN-HOUSE counsel are hired by a corporation's law department to handle a range of legal issues affecting the company, among them employment, policy, tax and regulatory matters. More prevalently, they play a managerial role, overseeing work that's been outsourced to attorneys at independent firms. Depending on the size of the corporation and the nature of its work, in-house attorneys may be either specialists in a certain field or general commercial practitioners; either way, there tend to be fewer litigators working in-house than transactional attorneys since most companies prefer to outsource litigious matters to lawyers at private firms, particularly at the entry level. “When it comes to litigation, they really want people with experience,” a prominent law school careers dean informs us. “There are many more opportunities for entry-level corporate work in-house.”