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The Inside Counsel Movement, Professional Judgment and Organizational Representation

Year: 1989

Type: article

Abstract: Is AN ENLIGHTENMENT?Inside counsel-lawyers who are employees of private business corporations-now are being called "corporate counsel."Once they were "house counsel," "tame" and "kept" lawyers. 1 In forsaking organizational independence-the mantle of the free professional 2 -they once subjected themselves to the accusation of having sold their professional souls, if not their human ones, for a mess of pottage.' Once castigated, inside counsel reportedly now are accorded not only "admiration and respect" by their corporate employers 4 but also "growing prestige" within the bar.

Source: Indiana Magazine of History (Indiana University)

Author: Robert Eli Rosen

Language: English

Topic: Legal Education and Practice Innovations

Subfield: Law

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Peace, justice, and strong institutions

Open Access status: green

Funder: American Bar Foundation

OpenAlex ID: W1529993090

FWCI: 14.89

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Cited by: 48

Related to: 10