Drift towards policy making that makes sense (Guardian)

More legal firms are dabbling in thinktanks and policymaking but they may be overlooking the benefits of more academic study, says Alex Aldridge Recently some of the biggest names in law have been getting together in an office on Chancery Lane to discuss weighty legal issues until late in the evening. "It's a bit like being called up to play for England," says criminal barrister John Cooper QC, one of 14 members of the invitation-only legal thinktank Halsbury's Law Exchange ? set up last summer by legal publisher LexisNexis. It is the latest example of a slow-burning trend among practising lawyers to involve themselves in policy, dating back to 1992 when City law firm Clifford Chance launched its "public policy unit". The move was followed by rival DLA Piper ? whose EU public affairs team is led by the deputy PM Nick Clegg's wife, Miriam Gonzalez ? before last year Allen & Overy unveiled a Global Law Intelligence Unit, concerned with the development of international commercial law. As you might expect from bodies closely affiliated to commercial organisations, much of their output is self-serving. Clifford Chance's tracking of the recent European court case over the use of ...
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