Legal Profession category: 228 books
The American Legal Profession in Crisis
Resistance and Responses to Change
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2013
Throughout history, the American legal profession has tried to hold tight to its identity by retreating into its traditional values and structure during times of self-perceived crisis. The American Legal Profession in Crisis: Resistance and Responses to Change analyzes the efforts of the legal profession...
Alternative Perspectives on Lawyers and Legal Ethics
Reimagining the Profession
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010
The study of legal ethics and the legal profession has emerged as a distinct and important field of scholarship over the last 30 years. However, as in other disciplines, academic recognition can in turn entrench static and powerful meta-theories and narratives about professional ethos and practise,...
by Steven Alan Childress
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
Current important events in the legal profession and legal ethics, with useful research and analysis of the rules and the profession's current challenges, are analyzed by Tulane law students who participated spring 2017 in an Advanced Legal Profession Seminar. The contents of the volume include:
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by Maeve Hosier
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2014
'The Regulation of the Legal Profession in Ireland' is a new and insightful exploration of history, controversy and reform relating to the Irish legal system. During recent legislative debate over a professional reform bill, Alan Shatter--then the Minister of Justice in Ireland--publicly called this...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2015
We are currently witnessing an unprecedented transformation in the legal profession and legal education. The Legal Services Act 2007 and the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 have both enabled and necessitated dramatic structural changes to the profession, as well as impacting...
by Kevin Rhodes
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2016
This second collection of Kevin’s blog posts for The Now of Law and the Colorado Bar Association’s Legal Connection ezine focuses on the future and culture of law. Drawing from a variety of disciplines and perspectives --including science, technology, neuro-culture, positive psychology, and entrepreneurship--...
by Herbert M. Kritzer
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2015
This collection of articles and essays by Herbert Kritzer draws on his extensive research related to lawyers and legal practice conducted over the last 35 years. That research has applied existing theoretical frameworks and developed innovative ways of thinking about how to understand what it is that...
Glass Half Full
The Decline and Rebirth of the Legal Profession
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
The hits keep coming for the American legal profession. Law schools are churning out too many graduates, depressing wages, and constricting the hiring market. Big Law firms are crumbling, as the relentless pursuit of profits corrodes their core business model. Modern technology can now handle routine...
Private Lawyers and the Public Interest
The Evolving Role of Pro Bono in the Legal Profession
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2009
This collection of original essays by leading and emerging scholars in the field examines the history, conditions, organization, and strategies of pro bono lawyering. Private Lawyers and the Public Interest: The Evolving Role of Pro Bono in the Legal Profession traces the rise and impact of the American...
Managing Legal Uncertainty
Elite Lawyers in the New Deal
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
With the New Deal came a dramatic expansion of the American regulatory state. Threatening to undermine many of the traditional roles of the legal system and its actors by establishing a system of administrative law, the new emphasis on federal legislation as a form of social and economic planning...
Finding Bliss
Innovative Legal Models for Happy Clients & Happy Lawyers
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2015
Change has come to the legal profession, as never before. Once hallowed law firms face unprecedented financial pressures. Their corporate clients are negotiating rates and reducing their outside counsel spending. They are also demanding more predictability in pricing, increased flexibility in staffing,...
The Lawyer Bubble
A Profession in Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
A noble profession is facing its defining moment. From law schools to the prestigious firms that represent the pinnacle of a legal career, a crisis is unfolding. News headlines tell part of the story-the growing oversupply of new lawyers, widespread career dissatisfaction, and spectacular implosions...
Palestinian Lawyers and Israeli Rule
Law and Disorder in the West Bank
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2014
As frequent intermediaries between Israeli military authorities and Palestinian citizens, Palestinian lawyers stand close to the fault line dividing Israeli and Palestinian societies. The conflicts and tensions they experience in their profession mirror the larger conflicts between the two societies....
Reaffirming Legal Ethics
Taking Stock and New Ideas
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2010
It has been over thirty years since the founding crises that birthed legal ethics as both a field of study and a discrete field of law. In that time thinking about the ethical dimension of legal practice has taken several turns: from justifications of zealous advocacy, to questions of process and...