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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.
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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