This book provides an empirically grounded, in-depth investigation
of the ethical dimensions to in-house practice and how legal risk
is defined and managed by in-house lawyers and others. The growing
significance and status of the role of General Counsel has been
accompanied by growth in legal risk as a phenomenon of importance.
In-house lawyers are regularly exhorted to be more commercial,
proactive and strategic, to be business leaders and not (mere)
lawyers, but they are increasingly exposed for their roles in
organisational scandals. This book poses the question: how far does
going beyond being a lawyer conflict with or entail being more
ethical? It explores the role of in-housers by calling on three key
pieces of empirical research: two tranches of interviews with
senior in-house lawyers and senior compliance staff; and an
unparalleled large survey of in-house lawyers. On the basis of this
evidence, the authors explore how ideas about in-house roles shape
professional logics; how far professional notions such as
independence play a role in those logics; and the ways in which
ethical infrastructure are managed or are absent from in-house
practice. It concludes with a discussion of whether and how
in-house lawyers and their regulators need to take professionalism
and professional ethicality more seriously.
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