Swimming in deep water : lawyers, judges, and our troubled legal profession /

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Author / Creator:Domnarski, William, 1953- author.
Imprint:Chicago, Illinois : American Bar Association, [2014]
©2014.
Description:xiv, 263 pages ; 24 cm
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10088863
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Varying Form of Title:Lawyers, judges, and our troubled legal profession
ISBN:162722405X
9781627224055
Notes:Includes index.
Summary:"Based on his thirty years of practice and reading about the profession, William Domnarski in Swimming in deep water: lawyers, judges, and our troubled legal profession delivers bite-sized bits of erudition in fifty 1,400 word essays that with a sharp edge skewer the status quo worlds of lawyers and judges, and argues for a rethinking of the legal profession and what makes the practice of law worthwhile."--Book jacket.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Alone but Connected
  • Are We Happy Yet?
  • Arrogance
  • Associates Used and Abused
  • Being Paid to Shower
  • Betrayal in Plain View
  • Big Law Fees and Big Trouble
  • Big Law and Poetic Justice
  • Brainy Lawyers
  • Can We Talk?
  • Clients and Their Lawyers
  • Contemptuous
  • Criminal Defense Lawyers and their Tough Job
  • Discovery Wars
  • Dissecting the Profession
  • Don't Pooh-Pooh the Profession
  • Dressing for Success
  • Federal Reporter, Third Series
  • Food Fights Masquerading as Depositions
  • Glib and Oily Art
  • Hope and Dread: The Nature of Legal Research
  • I Am Right Because I Say I Am
  • Introduction to Justice
  • Judicial Writing
  • Laugh Out Loud
  • Lawyers Gone Bad
  • Lawyers Writing
  • Legal Writing Instruction Misunderstood
  • Literary Allusions
  • Modestly Put
  • Movies and Television in Judicial Opinions
  • Nature of Lawyers and Lawyering
  • Nihilists Among Us
  • Personality and Office Space
  • Practice Before an Unhappy Judge
  • Professional Cynicism
  • Prosecutors
  • The Saddest Place No More
  • Seeing Yourself and Others
  • Serendipitous Research
  • Shakespeare
  • So, How Did I Do?
  • Taking Instruction from Others
  • Thinking Like a Lawyer
  • Typographical Errors
  • What Am I Worth?
  • What Would Socrates Think?
  • Why are We (Lawyers) So Disliked?
  • You Don't Say?
  • Zeal or No Zeal
  • Index