General Counsel Skills you Need for your CV and Career in Legal

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General Counsel Skills List in Legal

Below we have compiled a list of the most popular skills for a General Counsel role. We ranked the top skills based on the percentage of General Counsel job descriptions they appeared on. For example, 29% of General Counsel job descriptions contained legal counsel as a required skill.

Keywords / Skills

Popularity

legal counsel
29%
commercial
22%
commercial contracts
22%
contracts
22%
conflicts
15%
risk
15%
compliance
15%
solicitor
15%
legal compliance
8%
dc
8%
solicitors
8%
in house corporate solicitor
8%
administrative
8%
washington
8%
law
8%
london
8%
legal
8%
essex
8%
ipswich
8%
paralegals
8%
suffolk
8%
commercial counsel
8%
hybrid
8%
in-house
8%
in-house counsel
8%
company secretarial work
8%
remote
8%
law firm
8%
analyst
8%
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