Freehills dispute exposes confusion over who lawyers work for
Corporate lawyers routinely face the problem of getting conflicting instructions from board directors and owners because their client is a company, lawyers say.
The inherent difficulty of taking instructions from a company – a non-speaking, artificial legal entity – was exposed this week after The Australian Financial Review detailed the multi-million dollar fallout between top tier law firm Herbert Smith Freehills and its former client United Petroleum.
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