Corporate Lawyers: Values, Institutional Logics and Ethics

19 Pages Posted: 6 Jul 2015

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Richard Moorhead

Exeter Law School, University of Exeter; Centre for Ethics and Law, Faculty of Laws, UCL London

Date Written: July 4, 2015

Abstract

This paper is the lecture given to a Corporate Lawyers Symposium at CEPLER, Birmingham University. It considers empirical findings from three studies that look at the institutional logics, ethics and values of commercial lawyers in-house, and private practice. It questions the assumptions about the ethical inferiority of in-house lawyers, and points to general weaknesses in the ethical capacities of commercial practice. It questions the claims of zealous advocacy to be founded in a logic of client first.

Keywords: Ethics, lawyers, professionalism, commercial lawyers, in-house counsel

JEL Classification: K20, L22

Suggested Citation

Moorhead, Richard Lewis, Corporate Lawyers: Values, Institutional Logics and Ethics (July 4, 2015). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2626684 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2626684

Richard Lewis Moorhead (Contact Author)

Exeter Law School, University of Exeter ( email )

University of Exeter
Exeter, Devon EX4 4RJ
United Kingdom

Centre for Ethics and Law, Faculty of Laws, UCL London ( email )

Bentham House
4-8 Endsleigh Gardens
London, WC1E OEG
United Kingdom

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