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A peculiar breed of  [[Mediocre lawyer|legal wordwright]] whose legal expertise chiefly resides in (i) knowing enough about the law to frame a legal question for someone else to answer; and (ii) the tactical astuteness to throw such a hospital pass without anyone twigging that she has done it.  
A peculiar breed of  [[Mediocre lawyer|legal wordwright]] whose legal expertise chiefly resides in knowing enough about the law to frame the right legal question for someone else to answer; and the tactical acumen to throw such a hospital pass to such an unsuspecting third party without anyone twigging that she has done it.


In-house counsel generally don’t answer questions about the law by themselves.
The person who proves best at this behaviour over a sustained period of time gets to be [[general counsel]].
 
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*[[Circle of escalation]]
*[[General counsel]]
 
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