Abstract

There is no statutory requirement on companies to employ an in-house lawyer as such1 nor to maintain a legal department of any size. So there is no official starting date for this institution, nor an official history. The in-house lawyer ‘just growed’. A company can choose to rely entirely on external legal advice, and many of course do. The rise of the in-house lawyer represents, therefore, a product of business decisions on the means by which companies should obtain legal services.KeywordsPrivate PracticeEuropean Economic CommunityLegal ServiceStatutory RequirementLegal CostThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.

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