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NLJ this week: How to optimise your legal team

06 June 2025
Issue: 8119 / Categories: Legal News , Profession , Legal services , Career focus
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General counsel need a wide set of skills on top of being excellent at the law and managing risk. In this week’s NLJ, Kerry Phillip, a lawyer at The Legal Director, shares advice from her 20 years of managing in-house legal teams

Phillip explains how to boost morale, productivity and uncover duplication and gaps.

She writes that her experience of ‘transforming the way teams deliver legal services in companies of all sizes’ has taught her valuable lessons. For example, ‘although the scale, industry and identity of teams and businesses differ enormously, the challenges for legal teams are surprisingly consistent—and, more importantly, solvable’. 
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