Prior research has established that leadership characteristics, job equity perception, and client satisfaction are all associated with firm financial performance. This research, under the theoretical frameworks of Upper Echelons Theory, Adams Equity Theory, and Stakeholder Theory, provides...

The number of lawyers working for large U.S. law firms has increased dramatically. One important manifestation of this is the growing network of branch offices. Informed by three theories of spatial change — law firms (i) following the geographic expansion of their clients, relying on (ii)...

Over the last three decades, corporate white-collar criminal defense and investigations practices have become established within the nation's largest law firms. It did not used to be this way. White-collar work was not considered a legal specialty. And, historically, lawyers in the leading civil...

During the last three decades, the number of lawyers working for large U.S. corporate law firms has increased dramatically. This study draws upon the economic geography literature on producer services and global cities to outline a theoretical framework for the location and growth of large...

The post-Enron era is marked with growing discourse of stakeholders, sustainability, and corporate social responsibility (CSR). Commentators debate whether U.S. corporations have indeed moved towards a stakeholder orientation, given the difficulties in measuring such a shift. We assess this...

This paper explores a rule introduced by the parent regulator of legal services in England & Wales, the Legal Services Board, which requires the publication of diversity data from its daughter regulators and their respective regulated communities. This paper comments on the introduction of the...

Ethics in Large Law Firms: the Principle of Pragmatism reports on the first phase of an empirical study investigating the role large law firms play in shaping the ethics of the lawyers who work in them. The study concludes that work in large law firm bureaucracies shapes lawyers' habits of mind...

The paper provides an overview of large law firms in Germany, with a particular focus on developments of the last ten years (2000-2010). The overview consists of a general survey of the German legal market, followed by a more in-depth study of the five types of large 'law firms' in the German...