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| Website | https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/civil-service-government-legal-profession |
TheGovernment Legal Profession (GLP), formerly theGovernment Legal Service,[1] is an umbrella group comprising around two thousand qualifiedlawyers working ascivil servants in around thirtyUK Government departments.
TheTreasury Solicitor (currentlySusanna McGibbon) is also the Head of the Government Legal Profession. GLP lawyers are mostly employed by theGovernment Legal Department, although based in other government departments, with some being directly employed by the department in which they work. The GLP brand is used primarily forrecruitment purposes and offers training and support to GLP lawyers. The GLP Secretariat supports the work of lawyers across the GLP by providing central library services and for anintranet system,Legal Information Online Network, or LION, which can be accessed by all government lawyers, and gives access to commercial legal databases and information and articles relevant to government legal work.
Lawyers in the Government Legal Profession:
There are separate but similar structures in thedevolved administrations, theGovernment Legal Service for Scotland and theGovernment Legal Service for Northern Ireland.
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