Advantages and Disadvantages of In-house Lawyers

Karl J. Mackie
Additional contact information
Karl J. Mackie: University of Nottingham

Chapter 3 in Lawyers in Business, 1989, pp 29-52 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Bald assertions that the number of in-house lawyers has grown because of increased government regulation or increased and more complex economic activity conceal the real question concerning in-house lawyer growth — why have not outside legal services expanded to meet these demands? Of course, part of the answer to this question is that they have expanded — the number of lawyers in general has risen in all industrialised societies. But the other part of the answer must deal with the fact that in-house legal services have also grown, and grown at a more rapid rate than the general population of lawyers. Why is this? What prompts companies to take the ‘legal leap’ and employ their own lawyers?

Keywords: Legal Problem; Legal Profession; Legal Service; Legal Advice; Preventive Role (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1989
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-08799-0_3

Ordering information: This item can be ordered from
http://www.palgrave.com/9781349087990

DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-08799-0_3

Access Statistics for this chapter

More chapters in Palgrave Macmillan Books from Palgrave Macmillan
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().