Some in-house lawyers feel that their legal expertise is used by colleagues to back up arguments in internal office disputes. When you're in-house your sales or your marketing staff are the clients. There's always a level of competition within their environment. They try to use you as a tool for their power struggles. Greater job security in-house is described as a fallacy.
Experts say the stability of the job depends on the industry in question.
Banks sack people. Clifford Chance doesn't. Certain industries, such as the energy sector, have a reputation for forcing lawyers out. Another warning from lawyers who have been in-house to those thinking of moving in that direction, is that it is not always easy to return to private practice. But in private practice everyone is specialised.