TY  - CHAP
AB  - Abstract This paper explores organizational restructuring in corporate law firms. We review recent changes in law firms’ business models and structures, specifically as they relate to the externalization of work – or the unbundling of work and its placement with outside entities, which redefines the division of labor and the nature of the employment relationship. We draw from the extensive scholarship on the legal profession to raise empirical and theoretical implications of market-driven change to the careers of lawyers as well as the shifting patterns of stratification within corporate firms and the profession at large.
VL  - 47
SN  - 978-1-78635-436-5, 978-1-78635-435-8/0733-558X
DO  - 10.1108/S0733-558X20160000047023
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/S0733-558X20160000047023
AU  - Riordan Christine
AU  - Osterman Paul
PY  - 2016
Y1  - 2016/01/01
TI  - Externalization of Work by Corporate Law Firms: Implications for Careers and the Profession
T2  - The Structuring of Work in Organizations
T3  - Research in the Sociology of Organizations
PB  - Emerald Group Publishing Limited
SP  - 333
EP  - 361
Y2  - 2024/09/26
ER  -