Where on the totem pole does the legal department fall in your organization?

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Is there a part of the totem pole that is traditionally hated and only begrudgingly tolerated?

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Under President

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To quote a childhood joke, "up your butt and around the corner"

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We’re up at the top of the totem pole in my organization, but we are also a very small department in an extremely complex niche regulatory situation so the business relies on us heavily.

A very heavily regulated, high monetary penalty for non-compliance industry...so we are up at the tipy tipy top.

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