Book on barristers clerks
am 29.11.2006 von Transblawg
One of the desirable jobs in the English legal world is that of the impresario-like figure of the barrister's clerk. A clerk and his (are there any women) assistants arrange the diaries of the barristers in whose chambers they are employed, in return for a cut.
Professor John Flood (no, Germanists, this is the other Professor John Flood) specializes in studying lawyers. He has studied and taught in Britain and the U.S.A.
My first major study was of barristers' clerks, which is about to be revisited. This was followed by an ethnography of a large law firm in Chicago looking at the organisation of the law firm and the relationships between lawyers and clients. …The most recent research, funded by the German Science Foundation at Bremen University, will examine cross-border lawmaking …
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