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In this article, I have tried to outline basic ideas for a theory of Liquid Legal: systemic reflections on why and how corporate legal departments should transcend the confinement of traditional practice areas and apply their ability to think through ambiguity in a business frame of reference.
Legal can lead the business if it stays conscious of its role to serve. The new theory of servant leadership[49] stresses the importance for any leader to selflessly serve an ideal. Lawyers, by definition, serve the law and the ideal of “doing the right thing.” And in an increasingly complex world, lawyers, as servants, might be just the kind of leaders that today's businesses need: smart, committed, and prepared for the unexpected.References
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Dr. Roger Strathausen is a business consultant with expertise in Leadership and Legal Strategy whose clients are multinational companies. He was previously a senior manager at Accenture and an employee at SAP. Dr. Strathausen lectured at the Technical University of Berlin, the Universities of Heidelberg and Kaiserslautern, and the Berlin School of Economics and Law (HWR) where he promotes his vision of LIQUID LEGAL. He took his PhD from Stanford University while on Fulbright and Stanford Fellowships and his MA from the University of Tuebingen. His website is: www.strathausen.com