Bennett and Philp have worked with a large number of great
in-house counsel in their 40 years of service. Recently however, we
have discovered a deeper level of respect for the challenges of
their job and how much easier they make ours. This came about as
our firm recently completed a three-month retainer to act as the
(pseudo) in-house counsel for a large national company with
subsidiaries across Australia. Directors Andrew Lambros and Lachlan
Thorburn headed up this project.
The previous in-house counsel had moved and there was a long gap
before the new in-house counsel could start.
Our firm has worked for this client for over 15 years, so there
was a deep understanding of the business already. However, it was
quickly discovered the sheer volume of issues headed off at this
in-house level, before ever seeing external lawyers. They were able
to handle these queries, but it required the use of multiple
lawyers from different practice groups in our firm who then
