Lawyers and Clients
I have just written two new papers. The first on the tripartite relationship between bankers, lawyers and clients, which attempts to re-analyse how we should understand lawyer-client relationships. The...
View ArticleLawyer-Client and Lawyer-Partner Relationships
I’m back after finishing some papers. One of which was to do with lawyer-client relationships and the interaction between them. What is crucial is the creation and maintenance of trust that has to...
View ArticleMaking Up Your Partners and Outsourcing Your Legal Services
Three things passed my gaze today. One was some sympathy for being woken up at 3am by the other side in my wife’s deal. Thank you. The second was the survey that found it now takes longer, close to 9...
View ArticleChanging Horses Midstream…
Since around 1750 Freshfields has had a nice little earner being legal adviser to the Bank of England. The relationship is close. When the law firm relocated from St Paul’s to modern premises in Fleet...
View ArticleWho's the Lawyer, Who's the Client?
In one of those delicious quirks of fate, one of the first sociolegal scholars to write about the lawyer-client relationship found himself in the position of disgruntled client.Douglas E. Rosenthal...
View ArticleLawyers and Clients
I am revising a paper I submitted a while ago to the Journal of Law and Society on lawyer-client relationships. The argument is that while we conventionally view lawyer-client relationships as a dyads,...
View ArticleDirect Access by Clients to the Bar
I and my colleague, Avis Whyte, have been commissioned by the Bar Council to examine the issues surrounding direct access to barristers by clients. The Bar Council would like to see more such work...
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When Lawyers Have Sex with Their Clients
The financial crisis is supposed to be prompting some ethical reflection among those in financial circles. Business schools have beefed up their courses in this area, but law schools seem to be feeling...
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Lawyer-Client Relationships
Banker on Bishopsgate(Darrell Berry)I have just posted on SSRN the final revised version of my paper on lawyer-client relationships. It is “Ambiguous Allegiances in the Lawyer-Client Relationship: The...
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Straight There No Detours
Avis Whyte and I have just finished an article derived from the research we did for the Bar Council on direct access to clients. It can be downloaded here. The Bar has been a referral profession for...
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