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🧠 How To Adopt a Business Partner Mindset as an In House Lawyer

🧠 How To Adopt a Business Partner Mindset as an In House Lawyer

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Sarah Irwin
October 12, 2024

Hi everyone, happy autumn!! 🍂

Welcome to my bi-weekly (revamped 🪄) newsletter, a publication in which I’ll be diving into the top tips & tricks and strategies for building a lean, well liked, future-fit in house legal team.

🚀 When I joined a fast scaling tech brand as their first legal hire, I was immediately thrown into a chaotic world where traditional legal process meets rapid tech growth.

In my first month I learnt:

You need a growth mindset
You have to collaborate well
You must learn to take smart risks

📌 Let me share my tips and tricks for getting into the right mindset.

↓ THIS IS HOW you become a strong business partner as an in house lawyer:

1. Practice cross-functional collaboration

2. ⁠Identify colleagues’ business aims and help them achieve them

3. ⁠Be a good coach and teacher

4. ⁠Make legal issues relevant

5. ⁠Embed legal team in the business

6. ⁠Remove causes of friction

7. ⁠Regularly refine your processes

I cover all of these points (& more!) in depth in my latest YouTube video series 👇🏻

🍿 Check out my brand new YouTube channel HERE if you want even more tips and tricks.

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🤝 Get my step-by-step guide on building a lean, well liked, future fit legal team here.

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📅 Date: October 23
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by Sarah Irwin

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