The Lawyer's Personal Brand · glossary

Head of legal

The most senior lawyer inside a company that is not a law firm. At Ledgerline, a payments start-up, it is Yusuf Demir, who reads the few CVs the recruiter sends on. In ten years the person reading your CV may be a head of legal who trained with you. File, “head of legal” · Chapter 3 · see In-house; Recruiter, in-house

Explained in Chapter 3, A CV for Someone Who Has Never Met a Lawyer, of The Lawyer's Personal Brand.

How it comes up, in Chapter 3
Then a message arrives from Dev Chauhan, her friend from the Legal Practice Course. Dev works in-house (employed by one company as its lawyer) at Ledgerline, a payments start-up in Manchester. Ledgerline is hiring a legal counsel, the title a company gives a solicitor it employs. Its head of legal, the most senior lawyer there, is reading the CVs himself.
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As defined in the training Brand File
the most senior lawyer inside a company that is not a law firm; at Ledgerline, Yusuf Demir;
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