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Conflicts Of Interest And Law-Firm Structure, Cassandra Burke Robertson
Conflicts Of Interest And Law-Firm Structure, Cassandra Burke Robertson
St. Mary's Journal on Legal Malpractice & Ethics
Business and law are increasingly practiced on a transnational scale, and law firms are adopting new business structures in order to compete on this global playing field. Over the last decade, global law firms have merged into so-called “mega-brands” or “mega-firms”—that is, associations of national or regional law firms that join together under a single brand worldwide. For law firms, the most common mega-firm structure has been the Swiss verein, though the English “Company Limited by Guarantee” structure is growing in popularity as well, as is the similar “European Economic Interest Grouping.” All of these structures allow related entities to …
Concussion Protocols For Youth Sport In Tennessee, Corinne C. Oliphant
Concussion Protocols For Youth Sport In Tennessee, Corinne C. Oliphant
Chancellor’s Honors Program Projects
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Law’S Facilitating Role In The Field Of Social Enterprise., Evelyn Brody
Law’S Facilitating Role In The Field Of Social Enterprise., Evelyn Brody
All Faculty Scholarship
A Review of Dana Brakman Reiser and Steven A. Dean. Social Enterprise Law: Trust, Public Benefit, and Capital Markets. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017, 216 pp., $44.95 (hardback) ISBN 978-0-19-024978-6To appreciate the contribution of Professors Dana Brakman Reiser and Steven A. Dean in their pathbreaking volume on social enterprise law, we must begin by recognizing what we are not discussing. As the authors declare: “social enterprises are not charities” (p. 165). By definition, social enterprises are businesses, and thus not subject to the nondistribution constraint so familiar to nonprofit scholars and practitioners. An impact investor seeks profit, perhaps limited …
Law’S Facilitating Role In The Field Of Social Enterprise., Evelyn Brody
Law’S Facilitating Role In The Field Of Social Enterprise., Evelyn Brody
Evelyn Brody