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The report, Mapping the Moral Compass, is the second stage of an initiative to assess the ethical approach of and pressures on the in-house profession. Based on 400 responses, the report documents what was already apparent anecdotally: employed lawyers face considerable and specific ethical pressure points. While those tensions are not obviously more severe than in private practice, there is a far less developed framework to manage them.
Alongside a lack of structure regarding ethical and governance matters, the report notes many in-house lawyers downplay the importance of their professional duties – in a good number of cases downplay beyond a reasonable interpretation of those duties.
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