Miller Becker Center for Professional Responsibility Lawyers & the Globalization of Legal Services Series International Developments, International Networks, and their Impact on U.S. Legal Ethics and Lawyer Regulation Professor Laurel S. Terry ([email protected]) April 12, 2019 Thank you for the invitation 2 2009 Inaugural MBC Symposium
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Miller Becker Center for Professional Responsibility Lawyers & the Globalization of Legal Services Series
International Developments, International Networks, and
their Impact on U.S. Legal Ethics and Lawyer Regulation
This isn’t an anomaly: Law Firms with Foreign Offices
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21 jurisdictions that have firm(s) whoselargest office is in the state + have a foreign office
27 jurisdictions that have firm(s) with foreign office(s)whose largest US office is outside of that jurisdiction
Data provided in 2015 by General Counsel Metrics, LLC based on the websites of law firms with ≥37 lawyers. For 21 of the 48 US jurisdictions that have firms in their jurisdiction that also have foreign offices, a US jurisdiction has the firm’s largest US office.
See https://tinyurl.com/laurelterrymap2
DC
You Don’t Need a Foreign Office to be Int’l
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https://perma.cc/5TTA-V9X9 and https://perma.cc/7M46-88LW
My Prior Akron Law Review Article:• More than 2,250 downloads from my page
• 91 countries
• 165 institutions
• 181 ways they got to my webpage (“referrers”)
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My Most-Downloaded Article
Laurel S. Terry, The Legal World is Flat: Globalization and its Effect on Lawyers Practicing in Non-Global Law Firms,
28 Northwestern J. Int’l L. & Bus. 527 (2008)
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Who are these
people?
Got me!
US Ethics Conversations Are More Int’l
• 1st Decade (1987-1996): 6 articles
• 2nd Decade (1997-2006): 18 articles
• 3rd Decade (2007-2016): ›40 articles
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* For this definition & caveats, see below at p. 369. These numbers exclude articles about immigration, the impact of technology, and responses to terrorism.
Source: Laurel Terry, The Impact of Global Developments on U.S. Legal Ethics During the Past Thirty Years, 30 Georgetown J. of Legal Ethics 365 (2017)
* Using the GJLE as a proxy
* Note the increase in articles influenced by int’l developments*
Networks in 2019 versus 2014
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In 2014, we said: Nationally-based TLP-Nets take as their focus the TLP agenda of a particular jurisdiction, and necessarily are comprised principally—although not exclusively—of actors based in that jurisdiction.
In 2019: The nationally-based TLP-Nets are pretty int’l
(the IBA & ICLR)
https://works.bepress.com/laurel_terry/22/
This 2015 article’s subheadings were:
Impact: Some Recent US Developments
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MBC ad cited these acronyms: ABS, FATF, GATS, PMBR
U.S. Impact (using the W5& H) Framework
• Who regulates: GJLE Davis et. al. article with a proposed federal statute [cites EU]