Legal Strategies: How Corporations Use Law to Improve Performance

Front Matter....Pages i-xxii
Front Matter....Pages 6-6
Introduction....Pages 1-3
From Legal Monitoring to Legal Core Competency: How to Integrate the Legal Dimension into Strategic Management....Pages 7-25
The Origin of Legal Opportunities....Pages 27-39
A Theory of Legal Strategy....Pages 41-87
Alternative Conceptions of Legal Strategy and Strategic Legal Interpretation....Pages 89-100
The Crucial Role of Legal Capability in the Realisation of Legal Strategies....Pages 101-116
Litigation Cost Strategies from Economics....Pages 117-181
A Cognitive Approach to Judicial Strategies: A Perspective from the French Business Environment....Pages 183-198
Front Matter....Pages 200-200
Perspectives on Legal Strategy through Alternative Dispute Resolution....Pages 201-224
Strategic Planning to Avoid Organizational Criminal Liability: A Canadian Perspective....Pages 225-245
Corporate Risk Management and Legal Strategy....Pages 247-265
A Legal Strategy Case Study: Trusts in Securitization....Pages 267-275
Activist Hedge Funds and Legal Strategy Devices....Pages 277-292
Patents and Trademarks: From Business Law to Legal Astuteness....Pages 293-315
The Strategic Use of Legal Margins: How to Introduce an Extension of Someone Else’s Brand....Pages 317-333
The Effect of Complexity of Law on Litigation Strategy....Pages 335-351
Evidence Collection as a Legal Resource for Strategy: A French and European Perspective....Pages 353-368
Transnational Transactions: Legal Work, Cross-Border Commerce and Global Regulation....Pages 369-386
Front Matter....Pages 388-388
Limits to Horizontal Strategies: Majority Shareholders Facing Minority Activism....Pages 389-402
Innovation and Access: Legal Strategies at the Intellectual Property Rights and Competition Law Interface....Pages 403-437
Front Matter....Pages 440-440
Applied Advanced Legal Strategy in Court: The Example of the International Criminal Court....Pages 441-468
Back Matter....Pages 469-472