William Empson

Empson, William

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“…While this was not much of a problem in the past when the law practice was still small and did not have significant capital needs, things are no longer the same for most of today's big law firms. 175 One important reason for such difficulty is that a law firm lacks a firm-binding asset to be sold to attract and retain outside investors, and thus can only obtain equity financing from lawyer-partners. 176 However, because law firms are essentially work cooperatives whose income is generated by highly mobile professional employees, such equity does not exist beyond the exit for death of partners.…”

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“…18 In the UK, law firms have been permitted to incorporate since 1992, and many have converted to the UK limited liability partnership ("LLP") after it became available in 2001. 19 Germany followed suit in 1999 to allow law firms to limit partners' vicarious liability by incorporation, 20 which is realized in practice mostly through the well-known GmbH form. 21 More recently, however, partnership has lost its upper hand in the competition with newer hybrid organizational forms.…”

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“…35 Beyond the new regulatory trends challenging traditional normative constraints in the legal profession, the declining prevalence of partnerships among law firms is also attributable to the different realities of modern law firms today. 36 Traditionally, the legal profession was characterized by fluid partnerships and casual apprenticeships. 37 Things began to change at the beginning of the twentieth century when big corporations rose as the engine of economic growth, demanding complex legal services that would require the simultaneous efforts of many attorneys.…”

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The legal profession of China in a globalized world: innovations and new challenges

2018

International Journal of the Legal Profession

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The legal profession is undergoing fundamental changes; and this is the case not just in established legal markets. Based on a state-of-the-art sketch, this paper identifies and analyzes the latest innovation initiatives and alternative business models in China's legal profession. It finds that, propelled by market demands and benefiting from technological advancements, the provision of legal services has become highly versatile today, giving rise to various alternative service providers, especially the rapidly rising online legal service portals. Because they are technically not law firms, the exclusivity requirements on lawyer ownership and legal service provision are not applicable to them. In the meantime, the competition for large corporate clients and lucrative business transactions is fierce and will continue to be so, not only within the club of big Chinese corporate law firms, but also between Chinese law firms and international law firms globally. In this course, some leading big corporate law firms in China are observed to have creatively incorporated key corporate features in running their business and compensating their partners, effectively deviating from the partnership + pure legal services regulation. Such market realities question the necessity and effect of the regulatory restrictions on law firm legal form and ownership structure, and call for an agenda for related research in the future.There are three types of baseball players: those who make it happen, those who watch it happen and those who wonder what happens. (Tommy Lasorda)

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The legal profession of China in a globalized world: innovations and new challenges

2018

International Journal of the Legal Profession

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“…. 15 The example of Jane Austen's 'punning' that Empson offers is germane to the question of an economic/affective interface and indeed is thoroughly Marxist in its implications. It comes from the first page of Mansfield Park, a book which implicitly exposes the economic foundation of late eighteenth-century polite society (the security of Mansfield Park and its humane values depends, we learn, on the success of its owner's West Indian plantations) and explicitly raises the question of the economic foundation of eighteenth-century marriage customs.…”

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Critical Quarterly

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“…[…] Decir que el dogma no influye en la sensibilidad es absurdo" 45 . Solo se puede ejercer la deseable crítica a la vista de un ideal antecedente, como señala Gomá, "la crítica presupone el ideal mientras que una crítica sin ideal da en charlatanería. "…”

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Exilio de la Teoría. El malestar en la cultura arquitectónica y la ajenidad de la teoría

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2016

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Resumen pág 65 | Bibliografía pág 69 08 | Exilio de la Teoría. El malestar en la cultura arquitectónica y la ajenidad de la teoría. Exhile of the Theory. Uneasiness in the architectonic culture and the alienation of the theory _Fernando Díaz-Pines Mateo Malestar "Un cobertizo para bicicletas es una construcción; la catedral de Lincoln es una obra de arquitectura"1 . Para algunos, este dictum de Pevsner es 'infame' y "pocos estudiosos contemporáneos de arquitectura estarían de acuerdo con él" 2 , pero, quizás, porque hoy, con demasiada frecuencia, habría más arquitectura en edificios 'humildes' que en las 'catedrales' contemporáneas consagradas al culto del consumo como materias primas de otros mercados 3 . Y es que una observación continuada de la arquitectura contemporánea desde hace treinta años puede hacer surgir, casi inconscientemente, una sensación de inquietud que late en un estado silencioso, pero no menos activo, que obliga a enfrentar el escepticismo ante muchas de las arquitecturas más conspicuas de nuestro tiempo: un malestar cultural, cierto 'Unbehagen' freudiano, cuyo signo comparte la arquitectura con otras disciplinas como la filosofía y la historia.En El malestar en la cultura 4 , Freud abordó la cuestión de la realidad, señalando cómo difería la superposición física de las ruinas de una ciudad sometida al paso del tiempo con la vida psí-quica, en la que "nada […] puede sepultarse […] todo se conserva de algún modo y puede ser traído a la luz de nuevo en circunstancias apropiadas como, por ejemplo, mediante una regresión de suficiente profundidad" 5. Análogamente a esta imagen freudiana, podríamos entender la disciplina de la arquitectura como resultado de la superposición de sus aspectos cognitivos -el corpus teórico e histórico-, la obra construida y los proyectos -incluso los no ejecutados-, los arquitectos -presentes y pasados, como individuos y como colectivo-y el presente de la actividad arquitectónica -práctica, crítica, teoría, docencia-. Algunos autores6 expresan abiertamente este cansancio, o sensación de exilio 7, ante el espectáculo de una arquitectura ajena a lo útil y lo social -los medios reales de la arquitecturamientras que otros autores, desde una situación acrítica generalizada, lo hacen más tibiamente, exponiéndose menos al ostracismo académico o mediático, fijando si acaso su atención en el campo menos comprometido de la historia. La melancolía es una seña de épocas de transición y de crisis, pero la exploración empática y entristecida del mundo que se ofrece a nuestra mirada como un campo de ruinas exquisitas es de hecho un acto productor del conocimiento. Este malestar, en realidad temor a la entropía, brotaría de la erosión de los fundamentos de la disciplina en tres líneas básicas: subjetivismo -individualismo-en la estética, relativismo cultural -ajenidad de la teoría y ausencia de crítica-e ingeniería como verdadera arquitectura 8 . Eric Hobsbawm finiquita en 1991 el 'corto siglo XX' 9, cuando el paisaje intelectual y político conoció un cambio radical. La caída del mu...

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William Empson

Cited by 51 publications

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The legal profession of China in a globalized world: innovations and new challenges

The legal profession of China in a globalized world: innovations and new challenges

Working out the interest: Williams, Empson and Jane Austen

Exilio de la Teoría. El malestar en la cultura arquitectónica y la ajenidad de la teoría

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