This is the first of five columns drawn from a one-semester course on the Delaware campus of the Widener University School of Law, teaching students what it’s like to work in a law department and helping them learn some of the skills required to do so.
When I started out as a young in-house counsel at DuPont in the U.K., my first in-house role some 35 years ago, I had almost no idea what was expected of me other than that I would be doing lawyerly-type things. My understanding of how to be a good in-house attorney developed over the years, but I never thought about it in a holistic sense. I just got on with it.
