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Complicity And Lesser Evils: A Tale Of Two Lawyers, David Luban
Complicity And Lesser Evils: A Tale Of Two Lawyers, David Luban
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
Government lawyers and other public officials sometimes face an excruciating moral dilemma: to stay on the job or to quit, when the government is one they find morally abhorrent. Staying may make them complicit in evil policies; it also runs the danger of inuring them to wrongdoing, just as their presence on the job helps inure others. At the same time, staying may be their only opportunity to mitigate those policies – to make evils into lesser evils – and to uphold the rule of law when it is under assault. This Article explores that dilemma in a stark form: …
Biglaw: Money And Meaning In The Modern Law Firm, Milton C. Regan, Lisa H. Rohrer
Biglaw: Money And Meaning In The Modern Law Firm, Milton C. Regan, Lisa H. Rohrer
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
The Great Recession intensified large law firms’ emphasis on financial performance, leading to claims that lawyers in these firms were now guided by business rather than professional values. Based on interviews with more than 250 partners in large firms, Mitt Regan and Lisa H. Rohrer suggest that the reality is much more complex. It is true that large firm hiring, promotion, compensation, and termination policies are more influenced by business considerations than ever before and that firms actively recruit profitable partners from other firms to replace those they regard as unproductive. At the same time, law firm partners continue to …