The Lawyer's Personal Brand · glossary

In-house

Working as a lawyer employed by one company, for that company only, rather than at a law firm with many clients. Dev moved in-house to Ledgerline as its second lawyer, hired by a head of legal who knew him from his secondment. That is how most hiring works. File, “in-house” · Chapter 3 · see Head of legal, Secondment

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
working as a lawyer employed by a company, for that company only, rather than at a law firm acting for many clients;
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This term is part of one fictional junior lawyer's first year, with every document attached and a test after every chapter. Open The Lawyer's Personal Brand → · All terms A–Z →