The Rise of the Company Legal Department

Karl J. Mackie
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Karl J. Mackie: University of Nottingham

Chapter 2 in Lawyers in Business, 1989, pp 19-28 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract There is no statutory requirement on companies to employ an in-house lawyer as such1 nor to maintain a legal department of any size. So there is no official starting date for this institution, nor an official history. The in-house lawyer ‘just growed’. A company can choose to rely entirely on external legal advice, and many of course do. The rise of the in-house lawyer represents, therefore, a product of business decisions on the means by which companies should obtain legal services.

Keywords: Private Practice; European Economic Community; Legal Service; Statutory Requirement; Legal Cost (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1989
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-08799-0_2

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