It seems that today, it would be more appropriate to describe the role of an in-house lawyer as a combination of strategic business advisor and legal advisor to an organisation. The fact is that as business becomes more complex and legal issues grow more multifaceted, the expectation set on legal divisions has evolved and broadened. Legal teams are expected to not only deliver sound, commercially astute legal advice in tight deadlines, but to also streamline and transform legal processes, spearhead digitisation and automation, build capabilities to work in multidisciplinary teams, and of course deliver every outcome in a way that is engaging, user-friendly and fits with the way modern business is conducted. All of this is to be achieved with limited resources - the familiar conundrum of needing to do evermore with ever less.

From expertise, as a legal design specialist, advising and helping to introduce legal design capabilities for in-house legal teams at some of the most iconic brands and organisations - across luxury retail, sports, cosmetics, automotive and logistics sectors to name just a few. What is evident is that irrespective of the industry, the challenges for today's in-house legal teams are rather universal.