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The Husqvarna Group is a global frontrunner in the production of outdoor power products for forest, park and garden care. Husqvarna is also the European leader in the garden watering industry and a prominent figure in cutting equipment and diamond tools for the construction and stone industries. The Husqvarna Group legal team comprises 25 employees, with seven of those covering the EMEA region. Reflecting the market changes, the EMEA team recently hired a lawyer with IT expertise in order to meet the increased demand for advice on IT-law related matters such as cloud based services and solutions, in addition to the development of software solutions for their own products and data privacy. ‘As an in-house counsel, you will inevitably have more queries than what you may handle when you work in a law firm, which is why we work hard on how to prioritise in order to add the best possible value to the business’, says vice president and corporate counsel Linda Glimberg. The legal department revolutionised the way legal services are provided by constantly challenging the way that they support their internal clients. This was a ‘gradual process’, which consisted of constant small scale improvements rather than one big change. The legal department is also in the process of launching a “legal helpline” which will operate for a few hours a week in order to provide them with a more efficient way handle small, quick queries that otherwise tend to be rather time consuming. In order to secure continuity, the legal department has recently introduced a paralegal to the team while they reimagine their trainee system.