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- Ambiguous Allegiances in the Lawyer-Client Relationship: The Case of Bankers and Lawyers
Published: TBA, 2008
Summary: The relationship between law firms and banks has a long history. Bankers and lawyers constantly work together on transactions so that their relationships are deep and enduring. Through the use of ethnography and interviews this paper examines this relationship and that of the lawyer and client. Because of the unusually tight relationship between bankers and lawyers, the lawyer-client relationship needs to be reconstituted. It is not possible to perceive it as merely a dyadic relationship; it is now multi-polar. Even though clients may be sophisticated repeat players, clients are caught up in a relationship where they will always be secondary to the primary relationship of banker and lawyer.
File size: 122Kb, 42pp
Keywords: bankers banks clients law firms lawyers relationships - Globalisation and Large Law Firms
Published: New Oxford Companion to Law, 2008
Summary: A sociological history of the large law firm in the modern era: how it has adapted to globalisation and the consequent changes and implications for professionalism.
File size: 21 Kb, 5pp
Keywords: big bang globalisation law firms lawyers - Lawyers, Law Firms and the Stabilization of Transnational Business (with F. Sosa)
Published: TBA, 2008
Summary: Looking at cross-border transactions by lawyers through twin lens of Luhmann and Gilson.
File size: 206 Kb, 26pp
Keywords: clients globalisation lawyers legal profession transactions - Globalization and Large Law Firms
Published: , 2007
Summary: A brief overview of the rise of the large law firm and its place in the globalized world.
File size: 21 Kb, 5pp
Keywords: globalisation law firms lawyers legal profession - Structuring Transactions: The Case of Real Estate Finance (with E. Skordaki)
Published: TBA, 2007
Summary: A question often posed but rarely satisfactorily answered is: what do lawyers do? In this paper we take the work of real estate finance lawyers and examine how they structure transactions within the cross-border context. For the analysis the key term is structure as it is this that determines the success or failure of a transaction. This places the lawyer in an analogous position to the architect in a construction project. We provide examples of transactions and how they are articulated. This paper is co-authored by a practitioner and an academic.
File size: 112 Kb, 21pp
Keywords: banks derivatives finance funds investors real estate securitization transactions - Review Essay - Courtroom 302 by Steve Bogira
Published: TBA, 2006
Summary: A review of Bogira's yearlong observation of a Chicago criminal court, its cases, and its judge.
File size: 50 Kb, 9pp
Keywords: America case management civil control courts criminal dispute resolution drugs judges lawyers re-offenders
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14th March 2008
"Lawyers, Law Firms and the Stabilization of Transnational Business" is a new paper by Fabian Sosa, my colleague in Bremen, and me. It looks at the role of lawyers, in large and medium-sized law firms, in cross-border transactions through the lens of Luhmann and Gilson. It's under "In Progress" here and also on my SSRN page. Comments are very welcome. The paper is coming out in the Northwestern Journal of International Law and Business this year.