Developments in the Jurisdictions of In-House Legal Advisors: Researching the Australian Experience

Ashly Pinnington and Yuliani Suseno

Chapter 4 in Redirections in the Study of Expert Labour, 2008, pp 75-97 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract In-house counsel and in-house solicitors1 have both organizational and occupational commitments. As a result of being employees of client organizations as well as practicing members of the legal profession, they face problems of divided loyalties in a more acute form than do self-employed professionals (Nelson and Trubek, 1992: 182). For this reason amongst others, in-house lawyers are often attributed a relatively low status. In addition, a common if somewhat unflattering view of them suggests they are professionals who are forced to seek the shelter of employment, having failed to succeed either in corporate law firms or in independent legal practice (Smigel, 1964). In terms of the academic theory of the professions, their position is decisively different from that of partners in law firms. As Johnson formulates it, employed lawyers are professionals who depend on corporate patronage rather than functioning autonomously, as the bulk of the profession does, under collegiate control (Johnson, 1972: 45–7).

Keywords: Legal Profession; Legal Service; Legal Work; Client Organization; Occupational Commitment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230592827_4

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