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Making The Client's Peace: "Privatizing" Peace? Global Law Firms Offering Pro Bono Services In Post-Conflict Settings, Cindy Daase
Making The Client's Peace: "Privatizing" Peace? Global Law Firms Offering Pro Bono Services In Post-Conflict Settings, Cindy Daase
Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies
Lawyers of global law firms have begun to take on complex pro bono representations for clients in peace and constitution-building settings. These lawyers, who often cooperate across different offices of a global law firm, are not acting based on an external mandate but pursuant to an attorney-client relationship. The client is the source of authority and the owner of the process; yet, global law firms that serve pro bono clients are also a form of profit-making transnational corporation. In their day-today business they represent the interests of paying clients. This article will discuss whether and how such constellations can lead …
Protecting The Home Turf: National Bar Associations And The Foreign Lawyer, Brendan K. Smith
Protecting The Home Turf: National Bar Associations And The Foreign Lawyer, Brendan K. Smith
Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies
This note addresses the issues raised by domestic laws and bar associations limiting the practice of foreign lawyers. It looks at how the increase in globalization has led different countries to take different approaches toward dealing with these foreign lawyers. There are complex and varying reasons for how a country approaches foreign lawyers, as is demonstrated particularly through the actions of Brazil, India, and Japan. Also, it appears that emerging, but not as of yet established, global economic powers have decided it is in their interest to severely restrict the activity of foreign lawyers. The note suggests that these emerging …
Maurer School Of Law Bloomington
Maurer School Of Law Bloomington
Lauren Robel (2002 Acting; 2003-2011)
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