After 8 plus years as the General Counsel and Head of Legal Services at the Qatar Railways Company in Doha, working to support that Doha Metro Rail project – 140km of underground track and 37 stations (31 of which were underground) – this article reflects on the lessons learned, and highlights the initiatives and actions that worked well and contributed to the project’s success. With first construction contracts awarded in June 2013, the project set new benchmarks for speed and safety, being put into full operation in 2019.
In-house counsel in the Middle East, or those thinking of making the transition from private practice to in-house, might get value from the lessons learned and the techniques we used to prepare documents in both English and Arabic that were effective to read and understand.
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