Abstract
In-house lawyers work in a range of diverse company settings, thus not only covering different types of legal specialisation but also of company structures and ‘cultures’. In addition legal departments vary in size from the one-man/woman legal department to legal departments with over 50 lawyers, and larger numbers still, sometimes into the hundreds, in companies in the United States, although the largest department in my own research employed a mere 37 lawyers in a department of around a hundred staff (including para-legal staff such as legal executives,1 and secretarial). The range of work of in-house lawyers is also influenced by the extent and manner in which outside lawyers are used as a resource to service company needs, either generally or for specific functions or particular parts of the company. This is dictated by company traditions and in-house lawyer preferences, and is more appropriately discussed separately (see chapter 7), but also therefore plays an important part in the work of the in-house lawyer.
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