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

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Senior Legal Counsel Skills List in Legal

Below we have compiled a list of the most popular skills for a Senior Legal Counsel role. We ranked the top skills based on the percentage of Senior Legal Counsel job descriptions they appeared on. For example, 40% of Senior Legal Counsel job descriptions contained contracts as a required skill.

Keywords / Skills

Popularity

contracts
40%
legal
40%
legal counsel
34%
counsel
20%
solicitor
20%
procurement lawyer
14%
senior legal counsel
14%
commercial
14%
lawyer
14%
barrister
14%
checks
14%
ip
14%
dbs
14%
saas
14%
legislation
14%
negotiating
14%
commercial lawyer
14%
commercial solicitor
14%
in-house lawyer
14%
compliance
7%
procurement contracts
7%
policies
7%
data protection
7%
cloud
7%
electronics
7%
company secretary
7%
privacy
7%
data
7%
gdpr
7%
information technology
7%
fmcg
7%
solicitors
7%
in house lawyer
7%
in house legal counsel
7%
tech
7%
in house solicitor
7%
antitrust
7%
data privacy
7%
competition law
7%
intellectual property
7%
advising
7%
legal compliance
7%
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