Lawyer Admission Blockage in Korea
Long title
Globalisation and South Korea's Market for Legal Services: Regulatory Blockages and Collateral Circulation
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Northwestern University, USA
Seoul National University, South Korea
Columbia University, USA
Seoul National University, South Korea
Columbia University, USA
Conference title
International Legal Ethics Conference VI
Conference location
City University London
Year
2014
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Abstract
Lawyer admission rules typically are considered in light of their intended effect on legal education. But these rules also can have a profound impact on the career paths of would-be lawyers. Korea offers a rich case study of this phenomenon, illustrating the potential for regulatory blockages that effectively pushed aspiring lawyers out of the country to pursue their legal studies. Global law firms offered a return path for these individuals, who became licensed as lawyers outside of Korea and primarily in the United States. In this paper, we analyze the educational credentials and demographic information on lawyers working in five elite and globally-focused law firms in Korea to understand the effect of Korea’s earlier lawyer admission regime on career paths of the lawyers in its elite law firms.
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