The Lawyer's Personal Brand · glossary
A spell working inside a client’s business while still employed by the firm. Dev’s secondment at Ledgerline led to his job there. At the end of Tess’s year, a payments client of the firm asks for a lawyer on secondment, and a partner asks for her by name. File, “secondment” · Chapter 10 · see Reputation, In-house
Explained in Chapter 10, The Thirty-Second Answer, of The Lawyer's Personal Brand.
Dev Chauhan did the Legal Practice Course with Tess and trained at another Manchester firm. He spent his last six months as a trainee on secondment (working inside a client's business). The client was Ledgerline Limited, a payments start-up whose only lawyer was its head of legal.Read Chapter 5, Peers, Not Decision-Makers →
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a spell working inside a client's business while still employed by the firm; here, six months at a payments company from October 2027;Read the definition in the document →
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