Effective regulation requires knowledge. New forms of regulation, sometimes called “co-regulation,” propose promoting learning and continual improvement in the regulated. In particular, inducing experimentalism has been named as a regulator’s task.This Article argues that regulators also...

In making decisions about their compliance with the law, firms are constrained not only by their environment, but also their agents' understanding of whose (or what) interests the corporation should serve. In particular, compliance officials' understandings will frame and influence their...

Leadership in Administration is a classic. For over half a century, it has been taught to business and sociology students. This foreword to the digital re-issue Quid Pro, LLC, stresses its relevance to political science and psychology students as well. For all, it stresses the links which Philip...

This article reports on the first major quantitative study of businesses that explores the use and influence of lawyers. Previous research has only surveyed or interviewed lawyers. Our findings are particularly robust in regards to lawyer behaviors because they do not derive from lawyer...

Professionals working inside companies may bring with them frames of mind set by their professional experience and socialization. Lawyers, in particular, are said to “think like a lawyer” — to have a lawyer cast of mind. In seeking power within a company and in exercising the power that...

In the hierarchical corporation, a law firm obtained work from top executives. In a flattened corporation, work emerges from project teams. Empowered project teams change the practice of law. In an image, not the golf course, but the water cooler becomes where work is distributed. In many...

This article proposes that corporate lawyers be studied as committed to their clients, asking how they advance exercises of power by those whom they have chosen to represent. Currently, corporate lawyers are studied as independent from their clients, asking how they resist client demands. Such...

Companies can create a subcommittee of the board of directors to deal with legal compliance. After the final Sarbanes-Oxley regulations, the Securities and Exchange Commission (S.E.C.) predicted that 11% of issuers would form Qualified Legal Compliance Committees (QLCCs). Between October 2002...

I discuss the privilege of lawyers to display anger and to evoke anger in others. For example, in this film's dramatic climax, an angry lawyer angers a witness during cross-examination, who angrily confesses. I consider the uses of anger in acting like a lawyer as well as the emotional lives of...