Legal as Geopolitical Radar: A Practical Readiness Model for Lean In House Teams
Abstract
Imagine you are part of a mid-sized agricultural inputs distributor in Europe. Your company supplies fertilizer, seed, and crop protection products to farms across the Nordics, and the Baltic states. Your legal team is you and two other lawyers, all generalists, and you're good at what you do. On any given day you might turn around a distribution agreement, answer a question about parental leave, and puzzle out whether a new EU packaging rule applies to your business. You like the pace of it. Contracts are the heartbeat of the job, and keeping them moving is how you help the business grow.

