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Jun 7, 2009 04:00
14 yrs ago
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Dear All,

I am one of the Directors of a company. Besides the other business tasks, I am the only internal lawyer of company. Please can you advise the best possible titles for this.

Diretor - Inhouse lawyer
Diretcor - Legal Advisor
Legal Assistance
......?
Responses
4 "Director and legal Counsel"
4 +1 Director, General Counsel
3 +1 Director - Legal Advisor
4 Director - Company Lawyer
4 Director of Legal Affairs
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Discussion

MMUlr Jun 7, 2009:
Other options To give you a "real" example from the company Mars - they ave a "General Counsel" for Europe (-> http://www.linkedin.com/pub/anne-marie-poliquin/7/519/641 - I knew that before and just searched for a suitable URL) - so "Counsel" would also be an alternative.
Yasutomo Kanazawa Jun 7, 2009:
Thank you, Phong, for the clarification. I thought that you were talking about your real life here. :-)

Responses

23 hrs
Selected

"Director and legal Counsel"

Diane M. Peters, Director. Legal counsel to the Mozilla Corporation and the Mozilla Foundation, a non profit public benefit corporation dedicated to ...
www.softwarefreedom.org/about/team/ - En caché - Páginas similares

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Note added at 23 hrs (2009-06-08 03:08:56 GMT)
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Hi, Phong Le: "Director and Legal Counsel" implies that you have other responsibilities (as one of the company's directors), in addition to being the chief Legal Counsel.


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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "All could be right, but selected this, as I like this."
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10 mins

Director - Legal Advisor

I would go for Director - Legal Advisor. This sounds more natural than Inhouse lawyer.

By the way, excuse me for saying so, but would this be considered a KudoZ question?
Note from asker:
Thanks. I explained the question like that, to translate a project, not my rela life.
Peer comment(s):
agree Tina Vonhof (X) : This would be my choice too.
10 hrs
Thank you Tina
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3 hrs

Director, General Counsel

or

Director/General Counsel

Quite common. Cf. http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=pl&q="Director, General Co...
Peer comment(s):
agree Suzan Hamer : I think a slash (/) should be used, or perhaps even better an ampersand (&). The comma could make it appear that he is (even though it makes no sense and people should know the difference between "counsel" and "council") the director of something cal
2 hrs
thanks!
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18 hrs

Director - Company Lawyer

As he is a Lawyer his legal boundaries may be limited to one aspect of law, ie; Business law, so there may be a lot of fields of law where he is not proficient in, therefore he could not call himself a legal adviser, as by the looks of it they also use other law firms outside of the company. A lawyer does not have the same qualifications as a legal council, who may cover a greater aspect of law, criminal, Business, litigation etc. Generally a company lawyer just oversees contracts and general in house matters and then they engage legal council for more difficult matters.
To me he is just a Company Lawyer

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Note added at 18 hrs (2009-06-07 22:51:57 GMT)
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Counsel ........ instead of Council
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4 hrs

Director of Legal Affairs

"BSI Group has appointed Romny Gray as its new **Director of Legal Affairs** & Company Secretary. Romny joins BSI from Symantec Corporation where she gained ..."
www.bsigroup.com/en/About-BSI/News-Room/BSI-News-Content/Ge... -

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"The Role Working in an existing Legal Team & reporting direct to the **Director of Legal Affairs**;Dealing with a wide range of complex commercial agreements, ..."
jobs.trovit.co.uk/jobs/legal-affairs -

"Since 1994 he has held several senior positions including **Director of Legal Affairs** of Laporte plc. Nick is currently a non executive director of Unitas ..."
www.axisintermodal.com/board_directors.aspx

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"Ford UK has appointed Monazza Khan, former senior lawyer with Ford's Essex general counsel office, as new director of legal affairs. The former post-holder ..."
www.internationallawoffice.com/NewsArchive/Detail.aspx?r=61...

"15 May 2009 ... Sue Joshua is Director of Legal Affairs at Wiley Blackwell, with responsibility for providing legal support to Wiley's European operations, ..."
www.stm-assoc.org/event_speakers.php?event_id=14&PHPSESSID=...
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