American Lawyers

Author : ANN. SOUTHWORTH
Publisher : West Academic Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781642426113
Total Pages : 642 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book What Lawyers Do written by ANN. SOUTHWORTH and published by West Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2019-10-23 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the structure and regulation of the contemporary American legal profession. It introduces students to the rich empirical literature on the profession, teaching them about the profession's overall composition and organization as well as huge variation in the practice settings, types of work, and daily experiences of American lawyers and their clients. It describes powerful economic and cultural forces that are reshaping the legal profession, and it presents the most recent scholarship and commentary on new challenges for the legal profession posed by technology, litigation finance, globalization, access to justice, diversity, and changes to legal education. Suitable for seminars or courses on professional identity and the sociology of the legal profession, the book invites students to reflect on their place in the profession and how they will navigate the turbulent landscape to chart successful, rewarding and responsible careers in almost any type of practice today's law graduates might enter. This book presents materials and questions drawn from recent events highlighting professional ethics issues currently in the news, but it could supplement rather than replace materials on the law of professional responsibility. The book provides sufficient explanation of basic legal concepts and the operation of the legal system to make it suitable for advanced undergraduate or graduate courses, as well as first-year law students, but it also works very well for second and third year courses.

Author : Paul D. Carrington
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781614383024
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Lawyers written by Paul D. Carrington and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book follows the development of the United States from the Founding Fathers through the twentieth century, looking through the eyes of the lawyers who shaped the country as they were shaped by it. Lawyers played many different roles in the design, development, and maintenance of democratic government in the United States, and American Lawyers contains vignettes of the participation of hundreds of lawyers in diverse events of significance that occurred between 1775 and 2000.

Author : Richard L. Abel
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195072634
Total Pages : 423 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Lawyers written by Richard L. Abel and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1989 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive picture of the contemporary American legal profession traces its development over the last hundred years. Abel examines a variety of topics including the nature and effect of entry barriers, the rise and fall of restrictive practices, efforts to create demand for lawyers' services, self-regulation, the income and status of lawyers, the growth of public and private employment, the displacement of solo and small firms, and the allocation of lawyers to roles.

Author : Los Angeles Richard L. Abel Professor of Law University of California
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0198021852
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Lawyers written by Los Angeles Richard L. Abel Professor of Law University of California and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1989-11-30 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This detailed portrait of American lawyers traces their efforts to professionalize during the last 100 years by erecting barriers to control the quality and quantity of entrants. Abel describes the rise and fall of restrictive practices that dampened competition among lawyers and with outsiders. He shows how lawyers simultaneously sought to increase access to justice while stimulating demand for services, and their efforts to regulate themselves while forestalling external control. Data on income and status illuminate the success of these efforts. Charting the dramatic transformation of the profession over the last two decades, Abel documents the growing number and importance of lawyers employed outside private practice (in business and government, as judges and teachers) and the displacement of corporate clients they serve. Noting the complexity of matching ever more diverse entrants with more stratified roles, he depicts the mechanism that law schools and employers have created to allocate graduates to jobs and socialize them within their new environments. Abel concludes with critical reflections on possible and desirable futures for the legal profession.

Author : Rogelio Pérez-Perdomo
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804767699
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Latin American Lawyers written by Rogelio Pérez-Perdomo and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2006-01-06 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first comprehensive history of the intellectual training and social placement of lawyers in Latin America. Pérez-Perdomo examines the Roman legal roots of the Latin American tradition and traces the development of legal education and practice in Latin America from the 16th century to the present. The main themes in the book are the relationship between lawyers and power, the place of lawyers in social stratification, the role of law and lawyers in building nations and maintaining elite power, the role of law schools, and the main intellectual trends in legal thought.

Author : William Draper Lewis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 588 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Great American Lawyers written by William Draper Lewis and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Henry Wilson Scott
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 960 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Distinguished American Lawyers written by Henry Wilson Scott and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 960 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Livingston
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Biographical Sketches of Eminent American Lawyers, Now Living ... written by John Livingston and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : William Draper Lewis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 570 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Great American Lawyers written by William Draper Lewis and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 4 includes tales concerning John Hemphill and James Louis Petigru, both of South Carolina.

Author : John R. Vile
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1576075958
Total Pages : 850 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Great American Lawyers [2 volumes] written by John R. Vile and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2001-06-08 with total page 850 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This two volume set offers unmatched insight into the lives and careers of 100 of America's most notable defense and prosecuting attorneys. Trial lawyers, noted one observer, are "the closest thing America has to the Knights of the Round Table." In this new two volume encyclopedia, which chronicles the lives and careers of America's 100 greatest trial lawyers, readers can explore the historic legal careers of extraordinary barristers like Thomas Jefferson, the young Virginia attorney who drafted the Declaration of Independence, and Daniel Webster, staunch defender of the union. Readers will also meet contemporary litigators like Lawrence Tribe, who led the fight against the tobacco industry; Marian Wright Edelman, a leading advocate for children's rights; Alan Dershowitz, renowned criminal appellate lawyer and public intellectual; and Johnnie Cochran, the defense attorney whose spectacular victory in the O. J. Simpson trial propelled him to superstardom. In the stories of these preeminent litigators, readers will discover not only what qualities make a great lawyer, but also how much we owe to those who have served as our legal advocates.