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Business Lawyers And Value Creation For Clients, Ronald J. Gilson, Robert H. Mnookin
Business Lawyers And Value Creation For Clients, Ronald J. Gilson, Robert H. Mnookin
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This Symposium marks an important milestone in legal scholarship and education: The spotlight falls on business lawyers for a change. Ten years ago, when one of us first wrote about what business lawyers really do, no one had devoted much attention to this part of the profession. In his broadside against lawyers, Derek Bok, then President of Harvard University and formerly dean of its law school, reserved his invective for litigators and the litigation process. Business lawyers captured the attention of very few critics; even on the unusual occasion when we were noticed, the criticism was at least funny. If …