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Legal Risk in the Corporate World: The Changing Role of in-House Counsel

Legal Risk in the Corporate World: The Changing Role of in-House Counsel

Name: Legal Risk in the Corporate World: The Changing Role of in-House Counsel
Brand: Hart Publishing
SKU: 9781509905942
Price: 1071.85 HKD
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Author: Richard Moorhead; Steven Vaughan
ISBN: 9781509905942

Edited by Richard Moorhead · Steven Vaughan

Hart Publishing November 2018

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ISBN-13: 9781509905942
Publisher: Hart Publishing
Publication: November 2018
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: International ? Countri(es) for reference only

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This book will provide an empirically grounded (qualitative and quantitative), in-depth investigation of how legal risk is defined and managed by in-house lawyers and others, and the ethical dimensions to legal risk management. The growth in legal risk as a phenomenon of importance has been accompanied by the growing significance and status of the role of General Counsel. Numbers of in-house lawyers in England & Wales have more than doubled since 2002. In-house lawyers are regularly exhorted to be commercial, proactive and strategic, to be business leaders and not (mere) lawyers. This study explores their role by calling on 3 key pieces of empirical research: (i) interviews with 34 senior in-house lawyers and senior compliance staff in large corporates; (ii) a large online survey of in-house lawyers; and (iii) additional interviews with further in-house lawyers. On the basis of this evidence, the authors explore how ethical infrastructure is managed and what role there is or should be for the regulation of in-house lawyers.

1. Introduction

2. Methods

3. The In-House Lawyer and Their Place in Networks

4. The Tournament of Influence: Saying `No' and The Independent In-House Lawyer

5. Competing Logics - A Look at Risk

6. Ethics and Legal Risk Management

7. Striking the Balance: Identity and Orientation

8. Mapping the Moral Compass: Orientations, Infrastructure

9. The Ecologies of In-House Ethicality

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