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Lawyers in Corporate Decision-Making (Paperback)
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Lawyers in Corporate Decision-Making (Paperback)
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A recognized study of the disparate roles that corporate attorneys
play in representing and advising their institutional clients. Long
passed around and cited by scholars and practicing lawyers as an
unpublished manuscript, this book insightfully explores the choices
that lawyers, managers and executives make about how lawyers are
involved in corporate processes. In the companies studied,
Professor Rosen showed that corporate lawyers were repeatedly
intertwined in decisions-beyond those regarding mere legal
compliance-ranging from finance to production to sales to returns
to litigation. But the how, when and consequences of their
involvements varied. The book analyzes these variations. It
examines relations between inside and outside counsel and the
management of the corporate legal function. It locates them in a
taut framework of organization theory and institutional behavior, a
framework and application since recognized for its cogency and
explanatory power. The author, now a senior professor at the
University of Miami Law School, repeatedly calls on attorneys to
understand the organizational context of their work. His book
repeatedly calls out attorneys who ill serve their clients because
they failed as organizational analysts. It has since been
recognized by legal, ethical, and sociological theorists as a rich
resource of corporate analysis and the divergent roles that lawyers
play. The groundbreaking research was conducted at six major
manufacturing companies as Rosen interviewed a triad of inside
counsel, outside counsel and managers who worked on particular
problems. This novel method allowed self-serving statements
(especially by the lawyers involved) to be checked and placed in
realistic context. More important, because it triangulated how the
legal problem was understood, the method brought out how the legal
task had been structured. The frames that the lawyers, managers and
organization imposed on the legal problems varied widely-and the
sources and consequences of these variations are detailed and
explained. The book's published edition is newly available, but the
manuscript has already earned scholarly impact and praise. For
example, the Yale Law Journal noted in 1996 that "Rosen's important
manuscript is widely cited in recent literature on legal
professionalism." It has been cited in articles in the law reviews
of Boston University, Indiana University, University of Maryland,
and Emory, and the Law & Society Review. At bottom, researchers
and pundits on corporate theory and lawyers' roles have already had
to account for this telling study, and at last they can readily
reference it in quality printed and digital formats. "Lawyers in
Corporate Decision-Making should be read by everyone interested in
how law matters to organizations of all kinds." - Jonathan Simon,
Professor of Law, UC Berkeley School of Law "Rob Rosen's study of
in house counsel is a deft, subtle dissection of a complex world
where nothing is as it quite seems. In interviewing in house
counsel, outside counsel, and clients, Rosen captures, in a
Rashomon-like way, the moral character of lawyers' work-their
choices, their pitches, their claims-by which they justify what
they do. We see inside the professional black box." - John Flood
Professor of Law and Sociology, University of Westminster, London
"Robert Rosen takes us inside large law firms to explore how
corporate lawyers advise their clients and how that advice can go
wrong. The case studies he describes-including four situations in
which the legal advice failed-show how important it is for lawyers
to frame the clients' needs appropriately. Rosen's ability to weave
together the importance of organizational hierarchy, coordination
of responsibility, thoroughness of communication, and business
acumen makes this book a 'must-read' for lawyers and law students
alike." - Nancy B. Rapoport Gordon Silver Professor of Law, UNLV,
and Coauthor of "Enron and Other Corporate Fiascos"
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