Exploiting a setting in which lead counsel lawyers are selected before the random assignment of bankruptcy judges, we examine if past interactions between lead counsel lawyers and judges influence corporate bankruptcy outcomes. Debtors' counsel who are familiar with the judge speed up the...

Non-executive directors (NEDs) perform a central role in corporate governance, in providing effective challenge to executives. In-house lawyers (IHLs) are central to an organisation's ability to function effectively and within the law. The relationships between the two constituencies is...

This article argues that Brexit is a collective failure of the legal profession. The existing legal narrative of the European Union implies that power relationships reflect the division of institutional and sovereign competences. This misrepresentation was passed onto the general public who...

When representing grassroots coalitions and groups in policy matters on a pro bono basis, lawyers need to be highly self-reflective and self-disciplined in their client group interactions and how they carry out their professional responsibilities. Much rests on their abilities to develop and...

This Article analyses the intersection of three aspects of law, lawyering, and Information Age technology and culture, describing how they disrupt and inhibit one another even as they supply possible opportunities for each to grow and innovate. The Article urges that Information Age challenges...

This paper documents and studies the gender gap in performance among associate lawyers in the United States. Unlike other high-skilled professions, the legal profession assesses performance using transparent measures that are widely used and comparable across firms: the number of hours billed to...

In 2006, Christopher Dale leaked information about Clayton Utz's internal investigation into the events surrounding the destruction of documents that would have been relevant and damaging to their client, British American Tobacco, in the 2002 McCabe litigation. This article uses this case study...

In an effort to provide an appropriate tribute to his wonderful career, this study develops a set of themes that have been at the centre of Dave Trubek's work for decades, including development economics and the roles of law in developing countries, the structure and regulation of legal...