Experiences of female attorneys in private law firms: Exploring the phenomenon of the Old Boys Club
SA Journal of Human Resource ManagementOrientation: Female attorneys remain underrepresented at mid and senior-level positions in private law firms and must fiercely compete to advance in their careers.
Daphne Pillay-Naidoo, Deborah K. Brown
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Becoming a Cosmopolitan Lawyer [PDF]
, 2012 The practice of law has become increasingly globalized over the last forty years. Law firms, although national in origin, now depict themselves as global, international, or regional.1 Most of the lawyers practicing in these firms are educated and ...
Flood, John, Lederer, Peter D.
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On the distributional properties of size, pro fit and growth of Icelandic firms [PDF]
In this paper, we analyze the distributional properties of the balance sheets of Icelandic firms by performing an empirical analysis of total assets, profit rates and growth rates using a data set of 2818 Icelandic firms during the period 2000-2009.
Alfarano, Simone +3 more
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Are Russian Commercial Courts Biased? Evidence from a Bankruptcy Law Transplant [PDF]
We study the nature of judicial bias in bankruptcy proceedings following the enactment of the 1998 bankruptcy law in Russia. The two main findings are as follows.
Ariane Lambert-Mogiliansky +2 more
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'Gatekeepers' of Islamic financial circuits : analysing urban geographies of the global Shari'a elite [PDF]
, 2012 This paper analyses the importance of 'Shari'a scholars' in the Islamic Financial Services (IFS) sector, which has been a growing global practice since the 1970s.
Bassens, David +2 more
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In Search of Legal Foundation for Indonesian Family Firms
Indonesia Law Review, 2016 One of the factors that affect Indonesia's economic growth is the existence of business firms. It cannot be ignored that most business firms in Indonesia is family owned firms, and which are considered to constitute as the backbone of the economic ...
Yetty Komalasari Dewi
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Law Firms, Ethics, and Equity Capital: A Conversation [PDF]
, 2007 The correspondence collected here represents an effort to start a conversation. Pending legislation in the United Kingdom, based on what is known as the Clementi Report, would permit non-lawyer equity investment in law firms, subject to regulatory ...
Georgetown University Law Center, The Center for the Study of the Legal Profession
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The Relationship between Accounting Conservatism and Bankruptcy Risk in TSE'S Listed Companies [PDF]
مطالعات تجربی حسابداری مالی, 2010 This paper investigates the relationship between Accounting Conservatism and Bankruptcy Risk in Tehran Stock Exchange (TSE). To do so, the sample firms have been divided into two groups: bankrupting firms and non-bankrupt firms.
N. Rahimian, M. Salehirad, H. Mohammadi
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Firm Growth Function and Extended-Gibrat’s Property
Advances in Mathematical Physics, 2016 We analytically show that the logarithmic average sales of firms first follow power-law growth and subsequently follow exponential growth, if the growth-rate distributions of the sales obey the extended-Gibrat’s property and Gibrat’s law.
Atushi Ishikawa +3 more
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Do all networks facilitate international commerce? US law firms and the international market for corporate control [PDF]
This paper estimates the effects of several American law firms' international networks of offices on the total value of overseas mergers and acquisitions (M&A) by US corporations.
Simon J. Evenett
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