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Legislation and case law following relatively recent corporate scandals have increased scrutiny on the ethics and integrity of individuals, and the culture they create, at the highest levels within the corporate structure. The corporate General Counsel (GC) is a key member of that group. In light of these heightened expectations on ethics, integrity, and other liability concerns, this book examines the key role of the independent, yet business-oriented, chief legal officer, and offers practical guidelines on how the multiple roles of GC are, or should be, resolved, with best practices as the goal.

Corporate lawyers --- Company lawyers --- Corporate counsel --- Lawyers

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This title is based on a study of thousands of documents from the court files in over a hundred of the largest bankruptcy cases. It employs statistical analysis and documents its findings, and provides an unprecedented window on the worlds of bankruptcy professionals, professional fees, and their scientific study.

Bankruptcy --- Bankruptcy lawyers --- Corporate lawyers --- Costs. --- Fees --- Company lawyers --- Corporate counsel --- Lawyers --- Cessio bonorum --- Insolvency --- Privileged debts --- Business failures --- Commercial law --- Debt --- Law and legislation

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"This assessment of the corporate governance role of corporate lawyers in the UK analyses the extent to which lawyers can and should act as gate-keepers, counsellors and reputational intermediaries. Focusing on external and in-house lawyers' roles in both dispersed share-ownership and owner-managed companies, Joan Loughrey highlights the conflicts of interest that are endemic in corporate representation and examines how lawyers should respond when corporate agents provide instructions contrary to the company client's interests. She also considers the legitimacy of 'creative compliance', the ethical arguments for and against lawyers prioritising the public interest over their clients' interests, and their exposure to liability if they fail to perform a corporate governance role. Finally, she considers whether the reforms to the legal profession will promote the lawyer's corporate governance role and advances suggestions for reform"-- "The role of corporate lawyers and their firms: the issues In 2010 a leading City law firm, Linklaters, attracted unwelcome media attention1 when the bankruptcy examiner's report into the collapse of Lehman Brothers found that a legal opinion it had provided to its client had been used to mislead US authorities, although there was no suggestion that Linklaters itself had done anything wrong.2 The media interest was short-lived and gave rise to no broader debate about the role corporate law firms played for their corporate clients. In contrast, in the United States, even before Enron collapsed in 2000, there was lively debate on the subject of corporate lawyers and their corporate governance role"--

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Corporation law --- Corporate legal departments --- Corporate lawyers --- Avocats de société --- Contentieux d'entreprise --- Barreaux (Avocats) --- Corporate lawyers. --- Corporate legal departments. --- Corporation law. --- Company law --- Corporate law --- Corporations --- Law, Corporation --- Trusts, Industrial --- Commercial law --- Corporate counsel --- Corporate law departments --- Law departments, Corporate --- Legal departments, Corporate --- Law offices --- Company lawyers --- Lawyers --- Law and legislation --- Law --- Association internationale du barreau. --- General and Others

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This book provides the first comprehensive analysis of the impact of globalization on the Indian legal profession. Employing a range of original data from twenty empirical studies, the book details the emergence of a new corporate legal sector in India including large and sophisticated law firms and in-house legal departments, as well as legal process outsourcing companies. As the book's authors document, this new corporate legal sector is reshaping other parts of the Indian legal profession, including legal education, the development of pro bono and corporate social responsibility, the regulation of legal services, and gender, communal, and professional hierarchies with the bar. Taken as a whole, the book will be of interest to academics, lawyers, and policymakers interested in the critical role that a rapidly globalizing legal profession is playing in the legal, political, and economic development of important emerging economies like India, and how these countries are integrating into the institutions of global governance and the overall global market for legal services.

Lawyers --- Corporate lawyers --- Law and globalization --- Globalization and law --- Globalization --- Company lawyers --- Corporate counsel --- Advocates --- Attorneys --- Bar --- Barristers --- Jurists --- Legal profession --- Solicitors --- Representation in administrative proceedings --- Legal status, laws, etc. --- Persons --- Practice of law --- Globalization. --- Global cities --- Globalisation --- Internationalization --- International relations --- Anti-globalization movement --- Law --- Law practice --- Practice