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Georgetown Faculty Publications

• Law Firms, Equity and Equity Capital
• Eat What You Kill: The Fall
  of A Wall Street Lawyer
• Legal Ethics and
  Corporate Practice
• Barristers' Selfish Incentives in Counseling Defendants Over the Choice of Plea
• Guilty Pleas and Barristers' Incentives Lessons from England
• Teaching Enron
• Professional Discipline for Law Firms?
• Law Firms, Competition
  Penalties, and the Values
  of Professionalism
• Taking Law Firms Seriously

Center Directors

• Mitt Regan
• Jeff Bauman

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Center for the Study of the Legal Profession
Georgetown University Law Center
600 New Jersey Avenue, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20001

Professor Mitt Regan
regan@law.georgetown.edu
Phone: 202-662-9414
Fax: 202-662-9408

Professor Jeff Bauman
bauman@law.georgetown.edu
Phone: 202-662-9061

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The Center for the Study of the Legal Profession
at Georgetown Law is devoted to

• promoting interdisciplinary scholarship on the profession informed by awareness of the dynamics of modern practice;
• providing students with a sophisticated understanding of the opportunities and challenges of a modern legal career;and
• furnishing members of the bar, particularly those in organizational decision-making positions, broad perspectives on trends and developments in practice.

In support of its mission, the Center sponsors symposia, research, publications, workshops and speakers designed to foster exchanges among scholars, practitioners and students about the ongoing evolution of law practice and the aims and commitments of the profession. The Co-Directors of the Center are Professor Mitt Regan, regan@law.georgetown.edu, and Professor Jeffrey Bauman, bauman@law.georgetown.edu.

 

THE FUTURE OF THE GLOBAL LAW FIRM

GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY LAW CENTER

CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF THE LEGAL PROFESSION

APRIL 17-18, 2008

              This symposium brought together scholars from a range of disciplines, legal practitioners, regulators, and consultants and experts on professional service firms to discuss a variety of forces that are likely to shape the global market for law firm services in the years to come.  Participants from the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia explore issues such as the financial, organizational, and cultural dynamics of law firms; management strategies and business models in the global legal services market; law firm access to various sources of capital; and the impact of market forces on professional ethics, values, and identity.  Analysis of these issues was informed in particular by discussion of legislation in the United Kingdom authorizing nonlawyer equity investment in law firms, and of the emergence of the publicly traded law firm in Australia. Scholars and practitioners engaged in a wide-ranging dialogue that illuminated the challenges that lie ahead for law firms that aim to operate and compete on the global stage.

              For reports on the symposium, go to:

• http://www.bmacewen.com/blog/archives/2008/04/georgetown_conference_on.html
• http://www.bmacewen.com/blog/archives/2008/04/the_future_of_the_global.html
• http://busmovie.typepad.com/ideoblog/2008/04/the-future-of-l.html

             Many of the papers from the symposium are available here:

• Symposium on the Future of the Global Law Firm: Papers