Between Continuity and Change in the Italian Legal Profession - Boutique Law Firms as the Last Bastion of Professionalism
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Between Continuity and Change in the Italian Legal Profession - Boutique Law Firms as the Last Bastion of Professionalism. / Caserta, Salvatore.
I: Legal Ethics, 2024.Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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T1 - Between Continuity and Change in the Italian Legal Profession - Boutique Law Firms as the Last Bastion of Professionalism
AU - Caserta, Salvatore
PY - 2024
Y1 - 2024
N2 - This paper provides an empirical study of Italian "boutique law firms". By building on seventeen semi-structured interviews with lawyers, the paper explores institutional, professional, and societal features of such firms and their lawyers. The article shows that, while the rise of large law firms triggered a partitioning of the Italian legal field in the past decades, more recently this small, but economically important, sector of the profession revived the classic model of delivering legal services characterized by a strong sense of autonomy and independence, a client-centered but ethically robust approach to legal practice, a close relationship with academic and political environments, and a focus on projecting a professional image of themselves and their firms in society. These are, in other words, the last bastion of professionalism and are increasingly gaining an important role in the Italian field.
AB - This paper provides an empirical study of Italian "boutique law firms". By building on seventeen semi-structured interviews with lawyers, the paper explores institutional, professional, and societal features of such firms and their lawyers. The article shows that, while the rise of large law firms triggered a partitioning of the Italian legal field in the past decades, more recently this small, but economically important, sector of the profession revived the classic model of delivering legal services characterized by a strong sense of autonomy and independence, a client-centered but ethically robust approach to legal practice, a close relationship with academic and political environments, and a focus on projecting a professional image of themselves and their firms in society. These are, in other words, the last bastion of professionalism and are increasingly gaining an important role in the Italian field.
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JO - Legal Ethics
JF - Legal Ethics
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