In-house lawyers' ethics: institutional logics, legal risk and the tournament of influence

This title 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.

The 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.