Editing Lawyer (section)

===Organizations===
{{Main|Law firm}}

Lawyers in private practice generally work in specialized [[business]]es known as [[law firm]]s,<ref>Anderson, 111–117.</ref> with the exception of English barristers. The vast majority of law firms worldwide are [[small business]]es that range in size from 1 to 10 lawyers.<ref>Hazard, 39.</ref> The United States,<ref>Junqueira, 92. According to this source, as of 2003, there were 901 law firms with more than 50 lawyers in the United States.</ref> United Kingdom and Australia are exceptions, home to several firms with more than 1,000 lawyers after a wave of mergers in the late 1990s.

Notably, [[barrister]]s in England, Wales, Ireland, Northern Ireland and some states in Australia do ''not'' work in law firms. Those who offer their services to members of the general public—as opposed to those working in-house — are generally self-employed.<ref>Gary Slapper and David Kelly, ''The English Legal System'', 7th ed. (London: Cavendish Publishing Ltd., 2004), 550.</ref> Most work in groupings known as "sets" or "chambers", where some administrative and marketing costs are shared. An important effect of this different organizational structure is that there is no [[conflict of interest]] where barristers in the same chambers work for opposing sides in a case, and in some specialized chambers this is commonplace. 

Some large businesses employ their own legal staff in a legal department.<ref>Sobowale, J., [https://www.cba.org/Publications-Resources/CBA-Practice-Link/Young-Lawyers/2015/Becoming-an-in-house-lawyer BECOMING AN IN-HOUSE LAWYER], ''Canadian Bar Association'', published 1 January 2015, accessed 15 March 2023</ref> Other organizations buy in legal services from outside companies.<ref>Charlson, J. and Chinyio, E., [https://wlv.aws.openrepository.com/bitstream/handle/2436/560384/ARCOM%202013_Charlson_Chinyio.pdf A case study of joint procurement and provision of legal services to a group of a universities in the Midlands], published in Smith, S.D and Ahiaga-Dagbui, D.D (eds), Procs 29th Annual ARCOM Conference, 2–4 September 2013, Reading, UK, Association of Researchers in Construction Management, 493-502, accessed 15 March 2023</ref>