 The Integrated Lawyer (3): Reacting to Legal DifficultiesKarl J. Mackie
Chapter 7 in Lawyers in Business, 1989, pp 121-133 from Palgrave Macmillan Abstract: Abstract Despite the emphasis by in-house lawyers on proactive lawyering, inevitably a significant aspect of in-house legal work consists of assisting the company to deal with litigation and other direct legal processes. All the lawyers interviewed spent at least some of their time (and a few specialists spent most of their time) in this area of ‘curative’ rather than preventive legal work. It should not be assumed that this necessarily signified the failure of proactive lawyering. Apart from the inevitable degree of human error and intentional lawbreaking (usually attributed to lower levels of management) in management processes, companies sometimes faced situations where preventive law did not prevent other parties pursuing litigation to the point of failure. Equally there were occasions where the company sought to enforce its own legal rights against other parties for actions which could not have been anticipated or avoided by the legal department. Keywords: Legal Action; Legal Profession; Legal Service; Legal Work; Retail Company (search for similar items in EconPapers) There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it. Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-08799-0_7 Ordering information: This item can be ordered from DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-08799-0_7 Access Statistics for this chapter More chapters in Palgrave Macmillan Books from Palgrave Macmillan |
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