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Sep. 25, 2019

The pitfalls of being an in-house lawyer

Legal publications abound with articles about the benefits of working as an in-house attorney. Being in-house, however, brings its own special challenges.

4th Appellate District, Division 3

Maurice Sanchez

Associate Justice

UC Berkeley School of Law, 1981

While in private practice, Judge Sanchez was a civil litigator in private practice with several law firms and in-house counsel for two major import motor vehicle distributors. Law student Nathaniel Wood assisted with the research for this article.

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Legal publications abound with articles about the benefits of working as an in-house attorney. Being in-house, however, brings its own special challenges. This article presents a few issues that are either unique to an in-house position, or which have a special twist due to the nature of in-house work.

1. Representation

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