In-house legal teams are turning less to law firms for specific expertise and instead are developing specialist lawyers themselves to work alongside the generalists, says Lyndall Stoyles, group general counsel at Australian telecommunications company Telstra.

In the past, to be successful, in-house lawyers needed to have a good commercial mindset and to be generalists, Stoyles said. “There wasn’t a huge amount of room or call for specialists. That’s changing.”

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