This paper examines whether lawyers' experience of time-based billing and billable hour budgets subjects them to pressures that encourage unethical practices. We argue that billable hour pressure is merely the ‘face' of more fundamental pressures stemming from the way that lawyers in private...

Regulatory capitalism — a social, political, and economic order characterized by a proliferation of both markets and state and nonstate attempts to regulate markets and business conduct — creates the opportunity for theoretically and politically significant research on compliance. The plural...

The Australian state of New South Wales (NSW) was the first jurisdiction to fully deregulate law firm structure and allow incorporated legal practices without restriction on ownership. At the same time it also required that these firms implement ‘appropriate management systems' for ensuring...