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Lawyers brings together thirty-five outstanding excerpts and articles on the legal profession in the first reader to address the whole range of vital questions concerning lawyers and their increasing impact on all aspects of society. Are lawyers merely hired guns or are they morally responsible for the clients they represent? Who does and does not obtain legal services? How does law school make students more conservative? Can law contribute to the creation of a more just society?
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Overview

Lawyers brings together thirty-five outstanding excerpts and articles on the legal profession in the first reader to address the whole range of vital questions concerning lawyers and their increasing impact on all aspects of society. Are lawyers merely hired guns or are they morally responsible for the clients they represent? Who does and does not obtain legal services? How does law school make students more conservative? Can law contribute to the creation of a more just society?

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781565843929
  • Publisher: New Press, The
  • Publication date: 11/28/1997
  • Pages: 311
  • Product dimensions: 7.01 (w) x 9.98 (h) x 0.82 (d)

Table of Contents

Introduction 1
Ch. 1 The Fundamental Dilemma of Lawyering: The Ethics of the Hired Gun
The Adversary System Excuse 3
Ch. 2 An Overview of the American Legal Profession
The Transformation of the American Legal Profession 15
The Futures of American Lawyers: A Demographic Profile of a Changing Profession in a Changing Society 20
Chicago Lawyers: The Social Structure of the Bar 27
Ch. 3 Solo and Small-Firm Practice
The Business of Practicing Law: The Work Lives of Solo and Small-Firm Attorneys 35
Ch. 4 Lawyer-Client Interaction
Law and Strategy in the Divorce Lawyer's Office 45
Ch. 5 Large Firms
Why the Big get Bigger: The Promotion-to-Partner Tournament and the Growth of Large Law Firms 57
A Little Theorizing about the Big Law Firm: Galanter, Palay, and the Economics of Growth 64
Ideology, Practice, and Professional Autonomy: Social Values and Client Relationships in the Large Law Firm 70
Ch. 6 The Experience of Law School
Making It and Breaking It: The Fate of Public Interest Commitment Law School 75
Ch. 7 Women Lawyers
Accommodation and Satisfaction: Women and Men Lawyers and the Balance of Work and Family 91
Portia Redux: Another Look at Gender, Feminism, and Legal Ethics 96
Ch. 8 Minority Lawyers
Why Are There So Few Black Lawyers in Corporate Law Firms? An Institutional Analysis 101
Two Paths to the Mountaintop? The Role of Legal Education in Shaping the Values of Black Corporate Lawyers 111
Ch. 9 Theories of the Legal Profession
American Lawyers 117
Ch. 10 Using the Theories: Comparing Legal Professions
Lawyers in the Civil Law World 133
Ch. 11 Using the Theories: The History of American Legal Education
Law School: Legal Education in America from the 1850s to the 1980s 145
Ch. 12 Beyond Market Control: Professional Associations and the Public Interest
Elite Professionalism in Modern Society: Its Persistence and Its Limits 161
Ch. 13 Self-Regulation: Promulgating and Enforcing Ethical Rules
Professionalism as Politics: The Making of a Modern Legal Ethics Code 175
Who Should Regulate Lawyers? 179
Legal Malpractice: The Profession's Dirty Little Secret 181
Ideologies of Professionalism and the Politics of Self-Regulation in the California State Bar 182
Ch. 14 Cultural Images of Lawyers
Lawyers and Popular Culture: A Review of Mass Media Portrayals of American Attorneys 193
Women Lawyers in Celluloid: Why Hollywood Skirts the Truth 200
Ch. 15 Is There "Unmet Legal Need"?
Institutions of Representation: Civil Justice and the Public 213
The Legal Needs of the Public 218
1989 Survey of the Public's Use of Legal Services 220
Ch. 16 How Do People Get Lawyers and Lawyers Get Business?
Bates v. State Bar of Arizona 223
In re Primus 226
Ohralik v. Ohio State Bar Association 229
Zauderer v. Office of Disciplinary Council 231
Shapero v. Kentucky Bar Association 232
Edenfield v. Fane 233
Florida Bar v. Went For It, Inc 236
Ch. 17 When Do and Should Lawyers Render Pro Bono Legal Services?
The No-Fee and Low-Fee Legal Practice of Private Attorneys 241
Your Money or Your Life: A Modest Proposal for Mandatory Pro Bono Services 249
Ch. 18 Representing the Poor
Poor People's Lawyers in Transition 253
The Public Defender: The Practice of Law in the Shadows of Repute 262
Ch. 19 Lawyers and Social Change: Institutions
Liberty and Justice for All: Public Interest Law in the 1980s and Beyond 273
Law Without Politics: Legal Aid under Advanced Capitalism 282
Ch. 20 Lawyers and Social Change: Strategies
Building Power and Breaking Images: Critical Legal Theory and the Practice of Law 291
Subordination, Rhetorical Survival Skills, and Sunday Shoes: Notes on the Hearing of Mrs. G. 300

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