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The long arm of the law : London's law firms in a globalising world economy

Beaverstock, Jonathan V.; Taylor, P. J.; Smith, R. G. - In: Environment & planning 31 (1999) 10, pp. 1857-1876

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Allocating power and wealth in the global economy : the role of private law and legal aspects

Cohen, Edward S. (contributor) - 2002 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Corporate Law Firms, NGOs, and Issues of Legitimacy for a Global Legal Order

Garth, Bryant - 2013

Drawing on sociological research, the article explores the question of "spillover" at national and transnational levels. It asks, in particular, whether both sides of a potential transnational legal order -- the private law side of economic law and corporate law firms on one side, and the world...

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Globalization, Consequences and the Role of the Lawyers

Ceserani, Luis - 2013

Globalization, as a gener ... …

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Global Law Firms as Professional Gatekeepers in Corporate Governance and Financial System Stability

(D'Silva) Sylvaire, Magdalene - 2019

This paper reviews and critically analyses inter-disciplinary academic literature on global law firm governance and financial crime regulation. The hypothesis which emerges from this review is that global law firms are professional gatekeepers in both corporate governance and financial system...

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Business Services and the Financing of Global Production Networks : The Case of Global Law Firms in Southeast Asia

Faulconbridge, James - 2019

Financial and business services (FABS) as intermediaries play a significant role in global production networks (GPNs). Yet the mechanisms through which they influence the activities of lead and supplier firms in GPNs have received little in-depth attention. The paper addresses this shortcoming...

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All Roads Lead to Rome : Internationalization Strategies of Chinese Law Firms

Li, Jing - 2019

examination into their globalization efforts. It finds that the majority of the firms have endeavoured to expand overseas than not …

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Negotiating Cultures of Work in Transnational Law Firms

Faulconbridge, James - 2010

The geographical strategies of transnational corporations have received extensive attention from economic geographers. A particularly important line of study has focused upon the diverse national institutions that create geographically heterogeneous cultures of work. Yet, none of these studies...

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Who Let the Lawyers Out? : Reconstructing the Role of the Chief Legal Officer and the Corporate Client in a Globalizing World

Bagley, Constance E. - 2016

In the wake of the implosion of Enron and WorldCom in 2001, Judge Stanley Sporkin famously asked, “Where were the lawyers?” Section 307 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 imposed new duties on in-house counsel to report up violations of law. Yet, we still had the LIBOR and foreign-exchange...

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Mapping the Ecology of China's Corporate Legal Sector : Globalization and its Impact on Lawyers and Society

Liu, Sida - 2016

Globalization is rapidly changing the landscape of law practice in China, especially its corporate legal sector. This … article reports on the preliminary findings of the China research of the Globalization, Lawyers, and Emerging Economies (GLEE …) Project, a comparative study that examines how globalization is reshaping the market for legal services in important emerging …

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