Professor Asks The Wrong Question About Lawyers' Role
By EsqSocial Corporation 30/06/21
Professor Stephen Bainbridge's blog yesterday highlighted a recent article by his Sung Hui Kim entitled "Do Lawyers Make Good Gatekeepers?" In answering this question, Professor Kim distinguishes between in-house and outside counsel. As to the former, she finds that "the empirical evidence is both complex and mixed, but that the weight of the evidence generally supports that general counsel are effective (albeit conflicted) gatekeepers, who appear willing to police material illegalities but...
By: Allen Matkins