I’m thinking to accept a role as the first legal hire for a company, I understand that I will need to be comfortable with a lot of uncertainties, push backs, no precedents whatsoever etc. is there anything else that I should keep in mind? Any tips? Thanks

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Just be ready to implement processes from scratch. It's not the worst, but it will require a lot of extra work and you'll probably have to justify and implement a bunch of processes to people who don't know the legal system.

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