In-House Lawyers' Ethics
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In-House Lawyers' Ethics

Institutional Logics, Legal Risk and the Tournament of Influence

  1. 264 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

In-House Lawyers' Ethics

Institutional Logics, Legal Risk and the Tournament of Influence

About this book

This book provides an empirically grounded, in-depth investigation of the ethical dimensions to in-house practice and how legal risk is defined and managed by in-house lawyers and others. The growing significance and status of the role of General Counsel has been accompanied by growth in legal risk as a phenomenon of importance. In-house lawyers are regularly exhorted to be more commercial, proactive and strategic, to be business leaders and not (mere) lawyers, but they are increasingly exposed for their roles in organisational scandals. This book poses the question: how far does going beyond being a lawyer conflict with or entail being more ethical? It explores the role of in-housers by calling on three key pieces of empirical research: two tranches of interviews with senior in-house lawyers and senior compliance staff; and an unparalleled large survey of in-house lawyers. On the basis of this evidence, the authors explore how ideas about in-house roles shape professional logics; how far professional notions such as independence play a role in those logics; and the ways in which ethical infrastructure are managed or are absent from in-house practice. It concludes with a discussion of whether and how in-house lawyers and their regulators need to take professionalism and professional ethicality more seriously.

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Information

Year
2018
Print ISBN
9781509944323
Edition
1
eBook ISBN
9781509905935
Topic
Law
Index
Law

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Dedication
  3. Title Page
  4. Acknowledgements
  5. Contents
  6. 1. Introduction
  7. 2. Methods
  8. 3. The In-House Lawyer and Their Place in Networks
  9. 4. The Tournament of Influence: Saying ‘No’ and The Independent In-House Lawyer
  10. 5. Competing Logics – A Look at Risk
  11. 6. Ethics and Legal Risk Management
  12. 7. Striking the Balance: Identity and Orientation
  13. 8. Mapping the Moral Compass: Orientations, Infrastructure and Ethical Inclination
  14. 9. The Ecologies of In-House Ethicality
  15. Appendix A: Interview Schedules
  16. Index

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