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The "in your state" bit in the blurb sounds like the author might be suffering from a misunderstanding:

Licensed attorneys in other states can act as in house council in California: https://www.courts.ca.gov/cms/rules/index.cfm?title=nine&lin... They have to register with the state.

Depending on your origination is doing and what services the attorney is providing this might be completely reasonable.

That registration with the state puts them in one of the other categories I checked. She was not in those categories.

Those in house council also are a very different category than a independent lawyer.

You're not wrong there is an edge case - it just isn't applicable here (And is called out on the state bar web page as something to check)