Creating a compelling strategy for the in-house legal team

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Practice notes

Creating a compelling strategy for the in-house legal team

Copyright © 2025 LexisNexis

Published by a LexisNexis Practice Compliance expert

Practice notes

This Practice Note provides guidance on how to create a compelling strategy and align it with overall business strategy, vision and culture. It covers who should be involved, the tools to use and what the Outcomes might look like.

Understanding your organisation’s value proposition and culture

To add maximum value to a business, in-house lawyers need to develop their expertise on business matters and use this insight to support collaboration with the rest of the business. Being a good lawyer providing skilled legal advice is only part of the role of an in-house lawyer. A lawyer needs to understand their business and how to align the legal team to truly create value.

To understand the business, it is important for a lawyer to sit on the operations board. If senior in-house counsel does not hear about business strategy and vision ‘straight from the horse’s mouth’ they may have difficulty translating it into their legal team’s own strategy for delivering services and value. Sitting on the board also gives counsel the unique opportunity to

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