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44 Ariz. L. Rev. 559 (2002)
The Emerging Role of Ethics Advisors, General Counsel, and Other Compliance Specialists in Large Law Firms

handle is hein.journals/arz44 and id is 573 raw text is: THE EMERGING ROLE OF ETHICS ADVISORS, GENERAL COUNSEL, AND OTHER COMPLIANCE SPECIALISTS IN LARGE LAW FiRMS Elizabeth Chambliss and David B. Wilkins* I. INTRODUCTION Anecdotal evidence suggests that large law firms increasingly are turning to in-house ethics advisors, firm general counsel, and other specialists to manage the firm's compliance with professional regulation According to one account, most large law firms have their own in-house ethics gurus, people who are expected to set policy and provide ethics advice on internal matters, malpractice claims and similar issues.'2 Moreover, in the past ten years, a number of firms have created formal management positions such as risk manager and general counsel.3 Robert A. Creamer, Vice President and Loss Prevention Counsel for the Attorneys' Liability Assurance Society (ALAS), a mutual insurance company * Elizabeth Chambliss is the Research Director of the Program on the Legal Profession at Harvard Law School. David B. Wilkins is the Kirkland & Ellis Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and the Faculty Director of the Program on the Legal Profession. Research for this paper was funded by the Open Society Institute. We are extremely grateful to the participants in our study for their time and generous attention to our project. Our thanks also to Bob Creamer, Leslie Levin, Hal Lieberman and Laurel Terry for their very helpful comments on this Article. 1. See Jonathan M. Epstein, The In-House Ethics Advisor, Practical Benefits for the Modern Law Firm, 7 GEO. J. LEGAL ETHics 1011, 1028-29 (1994); David Hricik, Uncertainty, Confusion, and Despair: Ethics and Large-Firm Practice in Texas, 16 REv. LrMiG. 706 (1997); Peter R. Jarvis, Ethics Advisors Watch Over Firms, NAT'L L. J., July 13, 1992, at 15; Daniel Kennedy, New Trend is General Counsel in Firms, A.B.A. J., Jan. 1995, at 29; Gary Taylor, Counsel to Firms Goes In-House: Legal Costs Are Leading Firms, Like Their Clients, to Look Insidefor Advice, NAT'L L. J., July 18, 1994, at Al. 2. Hricik, supra note 1, at 706. 3. See Kennedy, supra note 1, at 29 (discussing the creation of a general counsel position at Winston & Strawn); Taylor, supra note 1, at Al (discussing the creation of general counsel positions at Arter & Hadden of Cleveland, Gardere & Wynne LLP of Dallas, and Munsch, Hardt, Kopf, Harr & Dinan of Dallas).

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