Corporate Lawyers: Values, Institutional Logics and Ethics
19 Pages Posted: 6 Jul 2015
Date Written: July 4, 2015
Abstract
This paper is the lecture given to a Corporate Lawyers Symposium at CEPLER, Birmingham University. It considers empirical findings from three studies that look at the institutional logics, ethics and values of commercial lawyers in-house, and private practice. It questions the assumptions about the ethical inferiority of in-house lawyers, and points to general weaknesses in the ethical capacities of commercial practice. It questions the claims of zealous advocacy to be founded in a logic of client first.
Keywords: Ethics, lawyers, professionalism, commercial lawyers, in-house counsel
JEL Classification: K20, L22
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