The Brazilian Legal Profession in the Age of Globalization : The Rise of the Corporate Legal Sector and its Impact on Lawyers and Society

A comprehensive, empirically grounded analysis of the impact of globalization on the growth of the corporate legal sector in Brazil. The authors examine the transformational effect globalization has had on the Brazilian legal profession, Brazil, and the global market for legal services.

This book provides the first comprehensive analysis of globalization''s impact on the Brazilian legal profession. Employing original data from nine empirical studies, the book details how Brazil''s need to restructure its economy and manage its global relationships contributed to the emergence of a new ''corporate legal sector'' - a sector marked by increasingly large and sophisticated law firms and in-house legal departments. This corporate legal sector in turn helped to reshape other parts of the Brazilian legal profession, including legal education, pro bono practices, the regulation of legal services, and the state''s legal capacity in international economic law. The book, the second in a series on Globalization, Lawyers, and Emerging Economies, will be of interest to academics, lawyers, and policymakers concerned with the role that a rapidly globalizing legal profession is playing in the development of key emerging economies, and how these countries are integrating into the global market for legal services.