Special Issue: Law Firms, Legal Culture and Legal Practice: Law Firms, Legal Culture, and Legal Practice

by Austin Sarat

Overview

Large law firms have become a dominant feature of the legal landscape in the United States and elsewhere. This volume of Studies in Law, Politics, and Society examines the situation of large law firms. The articles collected here address the following questions: How has the large law firm altered, or adapted to, the ideals/ideology of the legal profession? How do law firms function as organizations? What happens to firms when they globalize their practices? What is the situation of scholarship on large law firms? Has the firm been incorporated into boarder interdisciplinary configurations? What, if any, new paradigms of study of firms are on the horizon?

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780857243577
Publisher:	Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Publication date:	09/24/2010
Series:	Studies in Law, Politics, and Society , #52
Edition description:	Special Edition
Pages:	248
Product dimensions:	6.20(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.90(d)

Table of Contents

List of Contributors. EDITORIAL BOARD. Measuring law firm culture. Rejecting the culture of independence: Corporate lawyers as committed to their clients. Law firm strategies for human capital: Past, present, future. Taxes and death: The rise and demise of an American law firm. From policy to practice: Assessing the effect of large law firm pro bono structure on pro bono commitment. “If you become his second wife, you are a fool”: Shifting paradigms of the roles, perceptions, and working conditions of legal secretaries in large law firms. Racial and ethnic minority representation in large U.S. law firms. Studies in law, politics, and society. Studies in law, politics, and society. Copyright page.