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Hypercompetitiveness or a Balanced Life? Gendered Discourses in the Globalisation of Australian Law Firms

Margaret Thornton Professor of Law & ANU Public Policy Fellow, Australian National University, Canberra. Earlier versions of this article were presented at International Legal Ethics Conference V, Banff, Canada, 1–3 July 2012 and the Research Committee on Sociology of Law Conference, Toulouse, France, 3–6 September 2013. Thanks to Hilary Sommerlad for organising this special issue of Legal Ethics and the referees for their helpful comments. Thanks also to Lucinda Shannon for research assistance and the Australian Research Council for financial support (DP 120104785). All websites accessed 24 February 2014.
Pages 153-176 | Published online: 07 May 2015

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Margaret Thornton. (2021) Legal professionalism in a context of Uberisation. International Journal of the Legal Profession 28:3, pages 243-263.
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Margaret Thornton. (2016) Squeezing the life out of lawyers: legal practice in the market embrace. Griffith Law Review 25:4, pages 471-491.
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Richard Collier. (2016) Wellbeing in the legal profession: reflections on recent developments (or, what do we talk about, when we talk about wellbeing?). International Journal of the Legal Profession 23:1, pages 41-60.
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Margaret Thornton. (2016) Work/life or work/work? Corporate legal practice in the twenty-first century. International Journal of the Legal Profession 23:1, pages 13-39.
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Paula Baron. (2015) Althusser's mirror: lawyer distress and the process of interpellation. Griffith Law Review 24:2, pages 157-180.
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Richard Collier. (2018) Fatherhood, gender and the making of professional identity in large law firms: bringing men into the frame. International Journal of Law in Context 15:1, pages 68-87.
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Margaret Thornton. (2014) Deregulation, Debt and the Discipline of Law. Alternative Law Journal 39:4, pages 213-216.
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Margaret Thornton. (2016) Law Student Wellbeing: A Neoliberal Conundrum. SSRN Electronic Journal.
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