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Partnership and Professionalism in Global Law Firms: Resurgent Professionalism?

In: Redirections in the Study of Expert Labour

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  • John Flood

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There is a tension between the values of professionalism and of business in law, which, although it has been present for a long time, has taken a new turn with globalisation. Professionalism is undergoing a crisis of confidence as the state is intervening more in the regulation of the legal profession and the nature of legal work is becoming more mechanised and commodified. While the practice of law has traditionally been organised around the concept of partnership, often combined with some form of charismatic authority, partnership, as opposed to corporate structures, is now being stretched to its limit as a coherent form of governance in professional service firms. We may instead legitimately state the ‘industrialisation’ of legal practice is emerging (Bierman and Gely, 2003: 970).

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  • John Flood, 2008. "Partnership and Professionalism in Global Law Firms: Resurgent Professionalism?," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Daniel Muzio & Stephen Ackroyd & Jean-François Chanlat (ed.), Redirections in the Study of Expert Labour, chapter 3, pages 52-74, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-59282-7_3
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230592827_3
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    1. Yuliani Suseno & Ashly H. Pinnington, 2018. "Building social capital and human capital for internationalization: The role of network ties and knowledge resources," Asia Pacific Journal of Management, Springer, vol. 35(4), pages 1081-1106, December.

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