The history of inhouse legal

The day the eagle squad came to town.

This instalment we’re going in deep with the legal eagles, folks, to look at the rise and rise — and melty wings under a hot sun maybe the forthcoming fall — of the inhouse banking legal eagle.

Prehistory

Once upon a time, there was hardly such a thing as an in-house legal department in a bank at all. There was one, but it was a sleepy area in the basemen…