Book Review
| Publication year | 2021 |
| Pages | 253 |
75 CBJ 253. BOOK REVIEW
Successful Partnering Between Inside and Outside Counsel: by Robert L. Haig. West Group & American Corporate Counsel Association, 2000, 4 vols., approx. 6,000 pp. looseleaf, plus four diskettes.
Bob Haig practices with Kelley Drye & Warren in New York, but he is familiar to many Connecticut business lawyers as a leading advocate of specialized courts for business litigation and as the Editor-in-Chief of two multi-volume treatises on commercial litigation.(fn1) In the four-volume Successful Partnering Between Inside and Outside Counsel, just the brief biographies of the more than 240 authors, mostly from one to three paragraphs, fill nearly 130 pages. Connecticut's representation is numerically in proportion to its population, but includes such distinguished lawyers as Gabriel Miller, Ed K. Ota, Jr., Joseph A. Santos and William H. Trachsel.
Your reviewer is not polymath enough to evaluate the work of so many different kinds of experts, but I needn't have admitted that, because the Editor has harshly decreed that I have only this limited space. In a major deviation from the tradition of stand-alone book reviews, I have accomplished the required shortening by eliminating (already written, sometime lengthy) discussion of chapters and features of the set that have been covered in other reviews available on LEXIS when this was last revised.(fn2)
Despite its odd title, this seems at first to be an encyclopedia of corporate practice, including chapters on dozens of areas of substance and procedure. Even if the marketing people at West and ACCA like the unusual title better than something staid like "Cyclopedia of Corporate Practice," the results prove almost any issue that could possibly arise in corporate practice can be seen as a matter for partnering between inside and outside counsel. (A list of chapter titles appears in a space-saving typeface at the end of this review.(fn3)) Many of the chapters are or include splendid introductory overviews of an area of the law. For several of the subjects I know best, I found Successful Partnering's chapters to contain a good approximation of everything I would want to tell a young lawyer just entering the field. However, very few of the chapters present legal analysis or forms(fn4) likely to be of use to lawyers experienced in the area under discussion. To the extent it is meant to apply to such matters, I found exaggerated the claim in the foreword, "The authors go...
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