Lawyers' ideals/lawyers' practices : transformations in the American legal profession /

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Imprint:	Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1992.
Description:	295 p.
Language:	English
Subject:	Practice of law -- United States Legal ethics -- United States Lawyers -- United States. Lawyers. Legal ethics. Practice of law. United States.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1340979

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Other authors / contributors:	Nelson, Robert L., 1952- Trubek, David M., 1935- Solomon, Rayman L.
ISBN:	0801424615 (cloth : alk. paper) 0801497108 (paper : alk. paper)
Notes:	"The articles ... were first presented at the American Bar Foundation's Conference on Professionalism held in September 1988"--Pref. Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-283) and index.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: New Problems and New Paradigms in Studies of the Legal Profession / Robert L. Nelson and David M. Trubek
Pt. I. Lawyers' Practices in Transition. 1. The Transformation of the Big Law Firm / Marc Galanter and Thomas Palay. 2. Managing Entrepreneurial Legal Services: The Transformation of Small-Firm Practice / Carroll Seron
Pt. II. Lawyers' Ideals in Historical Perspective. 3. Professionalism as Politics: The Making of a Modern Legal Ethics Code / Theodore Schneyer. 4. Five Crises or One: The Concept of Legal Professionalism, 1925-1960 / Rayman L. Solomon
Pt. III. Transforming Ideals and Practices. 5. Arenas of Professionalism: The Professional Ideologies of Lawyers in Context / Robert L. Nelson and David M. Trubek. 6. Professionalism as Model and Ideology / Eliot Freidson. 7. The Redemption of Professionalism? / Robert W. Gordon and William H. Simon.

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