I recently noticed that many senior in-house roles now expect lawyers to wear multiple hats,legal advisor, business partner, operations support, compliance lead, sometimes even project manager. I am wondering are companies genuinely expanding legal roles strategically, or are teams increasingly expected to do more with fewer resources?

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That’s always been the job, unless it’s specifically someone else’s role. Where there’s ambiguity you go to Legal to make a call

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Got it

I wear many different hats. But I’m at a small company. So I’m a product counsel as well as commercial counsel as well as privacy officer, and sometimes have to support HR with employment issues and compliance with compliance related issues.

Good to know

This is exactly what the job is. 99% of the job is stakeholder management; assessing risk for the company, advising internal clients, helping implement changes and making sure they actually do it. As in-house counsel you almost never draft a legal memo that goes into the ethers. You interpret, advise and execute on a moments notice. When in doubt, everyone comes to legal for an answer and you will own everything.

Thanks for sharing

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