scholarly journals The Social and Professional Structure of International Justice: From Scholarly Insiders to the Pull of Multinational Corporate Law Firms

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sara Dezalay
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Law ◽  
International Justice ◽  
Law Firms ◽  
The Social

Legal Information and the Social Media: Some Current Issues

Libri ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 68 (4) ◽  
pp. 345-359
Author(s):  
Vicki Lawal ◽  
Peter G Underwood ◽  
Christine Stilwell
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Legal Education ◽  
Preliminary Evidence ◽  
Survey Method ◽  
Law Firms ◽  
Legal Practice ◽  
Legal Research ◽  
Legal Information ◽  
The Social ◽  
Study Population

Abstract This article examines the effect of the adoption of social media in legal practice in Nigeria. It discusses some of the major challenges that have recently been experienced in the use of legal information in Nigeria within the context of the social media revolution, particularly with respect to ethics. A survey method was employed and data was collected through self-administered questionnaires to the study population comprising practicing lawyers located in various law firms in Nigeria. Outcomes from the study provide preliminary evidence on the nature of the application of social media in legal practice and the prospects for its inclusion as an important aspect of legal research in the legal education system in Nigeria.

Giving and Getting Respect: Prestige and Stratification in a Legal Elite

1980 ◽  
Vol 5 (01) ◽  
pp. 31-68 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey S. Slovak
Keyword(s):  
Social Cohesion ◽  
Law Firms ◽  
Differential Allocation ◽  
Law Schools ◽  
Cultural Organizations ◽  
Corporate Actor ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Bases ◽  
Social Cleavage ◽  
The City

This article focuses on the corporate actor elite of Chicago's legal community—those attorneys who practice law with and for the major business, social, civic, and cultural organizations in the city. A continuation of a previous article, this article focuses on the differential allocation of professional respect made within that elite. Specifically, the discussion centers on the “second-class citizenship” in the legal community to which elite house counsel are relegated by elite partners in private law firms. The first half of the article probes the social bases for that stigma. Examining a number of alternative explanations, it offers most support to one based on differences in the educational preparations of the respondents, to the effect that house counsel attended less prestigious law schools and performed less outstandingly at these schools than did firm partners at theirs. In the concluding half of the article, the effects of the stigma on elite social cohesion and commonality of purpose are examined. What emerges from this analysis is the finding that the house counsel stigma—strongly felt as it may be by all concerned—nevertheless generates no lasting lines of social cleavage within the corporate actor legal elite.

scholarly journals Sustainable Value Creation Within Planetary Boundaries—Reforming Corporate Purpose and Duties of the Corporate Board

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (15) ◽  
pp. 6245
Author(s):  
Beate Sjåfjell
Keyword(s):  
Value Creation ◽  
Social Norm ◽  
Corporate Law ◽  
Law Reform ◽  
Corporate Board ◽  
Legal Form ◽  
Shareholder Primacy ◽  
The Social ◽  
Sustainable Value ◽  
The Eu

Business, and the dominant legal form of business, that is, the corporation, must be involved in the transition to sustainability, if we are to succeed in securing a safe and just space for humanity. The corporate board has a crucial role in determining the strategy and the direction of the corporation. However, currently, the function of the corporate board is constrained through the social norm of shareholder primacy, reinforced through the intermediary structures of capital markets. This article argues that an EU law reform is key to integrating sustainability into mainstream corporate governance, into the corporate purpose and the core duties of the corporate board, to change corporations from within. While previous attempts at harmonizing core corporate law at the EU level have failed, there are now several drivers for reform that may facilitate a change, including the EU Commission’s increased emphasis on sustainability. Drawing on this momentum, this article presents a proposal to reform corporate purpose and duties of the board, based on the results of the EU-funded research project, Sustainable Market Actors for Responsible Trade (SMART, 2016–2020).

scholarly journals Fatherhood, gender and the making of professional identity in large law firms: bringing men into the frame

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 68-87 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Collier
Keyword(s):  
Identity Formation ◽  
Gender Equality ◽  
Corporate Law ◽  
Law Firms ◽  
Law Firm ◽  
Organisational Commitment ◽  
Specific Context ◽  
Family Work ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
Cultural Shifts

AbstractThis paper reframes debates about gender equality in the legal professions by interrogating the practices of men and interconnections between fatherhood, gender and parenting within the specific context of large corporate law firms. Drawing on interviews with male lawyer-fathers, it argues that closer exploration of fatherhood reveals much about the gendered dynamics of identity formation as a legal professional in this sector. A set of ideas about fatherhood, the paper suggests, shape how men's work can define a distinctive gender identity as a ‘family man’ and good lawyer. Political-economic and cultural shifts around fatherhood, however, are reconfiguring and adapting gender relations in law in a number of contradictory ways with implications for understanding the place of men in relation to gender-equality agendas. Ideas about fatherhood, family, work and career, I argue, are mobilised and enmeshed within the reproduction of distinctive law-firm cultures and gendered ideas of organisational commitment. What, in short, might it mean to bebotha ‘good father’ and a ‘good lawyer’?

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