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

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Legal Counsel Skills List in Legal

Below we have compiled a list of the most popular skills for a Legal Counsel role. We ranked the top skills based on the percentage of Legal Counsel job descriptions they appeared on. For example, 30% of Legal Counsel job descriptions contained legal as a required skill.

Keywords / Skills

Popularity

legal
30%
contracts
24%
legal compliance
18%
procurement contracts
18%
intellectual property
18%
data privacy
18%
solicitor
18%
legal matters
12%
commercial solicitor
12%
law
12%
legal counsel
12%
employment law
12%
contract law
12%
lawyer
12%
land acquisition
6%
legal assistant
6%
pqe
6%
architectural
6%
strategic counsel
6%
architecture
6%
construction
6%
risk
6%
environmental
6%
german
6%
german law
6%
legal documents
6%
planning permission
6%
magic circle
6%
public law
6%
legal research
6%
renewable energy
6%
strategic m&a
6%
travel management
6%
visa
6%
aml
6%
gdpr
6%
trademarks
6%
commercial awareness
6%
compliance
6%
senior legal counsel
6%
legal work
6%
nq
6%
in house legal counsel
6%
associate
6%
commercial
6%
dublin
6%
counsel
6%
in-house
6%
commercial lawyer
6%
data protection law
6%
in house lawyer
6%
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