U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson

London in-house lawyers have welcomed the certainty stemming from the U.K.'s general election outcome, with many anticipating that various Brexit trade talks will lead to more work for their teams.

Nick Hartigan, head of legal at construction company Kier Group, said: "It's reasonable to assume the various trade talks which will follow Brexit should undoubtedly have a significant impact on in-house teams supporting multinationals and importers/exporters for a resourcing and legal services procurement perspective."

Hartigan also said he expects some in-house teams to deal with other "macro issues" following the Conservative victory.

"Companies in certain sectors which the Conservatives made election promises on, such as infrastructure, care service provision and housing, should also see their in-house teams being kept busy after a somewhat quiet period of uncertainty," he explained.

In-house lawyers across several business sectors agreed that the end of the recent period of uncertainty should be celebrated. 

"Brexit contingency planning for if/when the U.K. was to leave the European Union has dominated the legal agenda for the last three years, with legal teams having to advise on parallel models using hypotheticals and multiple variables. That is any lawyer's nightmare," commented Mitzi Berberi, former deputy general counsel for Europe & Africa at Fox Networks Group. 

General counsel at financial services business Genistar Anthony Asquith agreed that the Conservative majority "brings certainty about the way forward", noting that "we will clearly now be leaving the EU, and whilst this will undoubtedly cause some issues in the short term, the feeling of 'not knowing what we don't know' has now gone".

Asquith added he had been concerned that if the Conservatives' margin of victory had been small, then further legal cases against the government's determination to push forward with Brexit may have been raised. "The democratic process which has been in place for many decades has had quite a narrow escape," he said.