The Lost Lawyer
Title | The Lost Lawyer PDF eBook |
Author | Anthony T. Kronman |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Pages | 452 |
Release | 1993 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 9780674539273 |
For nearly two centuries, Kronman argues, the aspirations of American lawyers were shaped by their allegiance to a distinctive ideal of professional excellence. In the last generation, however, this ideal has failed, undermining the identity of lawyers as a group and making it unclear to those in the profession what it means for them personally to have chosen a life in the law.
The Lawyer Bubble
Title | The Lawyer Bubble PDF eBook |
Author | Steven J Harper |
Publisher | Hachette UK |
Pages | 320 |
Release | 2016-03-08 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 0465097634 |
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 of pre-eminent law firms. Yet eager hordes of bright young people continue to step over each other as they seek jobs with high rates of depression, life-consuming hours, and little assurance of financial stability. The Great Recession has only worsened these trends, but correction is possible and, now, imperative. In The Lawyer Bubble, Steven J. Harper reveals how a culture of short-term thinking has blinded some of the nation’s finest minds to the long-run implications of their actions. Law school deans have ceded independent judgment to flawed U.S. News & World Report rankings criteria in the quest to maximize immediate results. Senior partners in the nation’s large law firms have focused on current profits to enhance American Lawyer rankings and individual wealth at great cost to their institutions. Yet, wiser decisions—being honest about the legal job market, revisiting the financial incentives currently driving bad behavior, eliminating the billable hour model, and more—can take the profession to a better place. A devastating indictment of the greed, shortsightedness, and dishonesty that now permeate the legal profession, this insider account is essential reading for anyone who wants to know how things went so wrong and how the profession can right itself once again.
The Vanishing American Lawyer
Title | The Vanishing American Lawyer PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas D. Morgan |
Publisher | |
Pages | 260 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 0199737738 |
Over 4,000 lawyers lost their positions at major American law firms in 2008 and 2009. In The Vanishing American Lawyer, Professor Thomas Morgan discusses the legal profession and the need for both law students and lawyers to adapt to the needs and expectations of clients in the future. The world needs people who understand institutions that create laws and how to access those institutions' works, but lawyers are no longer part of a profession that is uniquely qualified to advise on a broad range of distinctly legal questions. Clients will need advisors who are more specialized than many lawyers are today and who have more expertise in non-legal issues. Many of today's lawyers do not have a special ability to provide such services. While American lawyers have been hesitant to change the ways they can improve upon meeting client needs, lawyers in other countries, notably Great Britain and Australia, have been better at adapting. Law schools must also recognize the world their students will face and prepare them to operate successfully within it. Professor Morgan warns that lawyers must adapt to new client needs and expectations. The term "professional" should be applied to individuals who deserve praise for skilled and selfless efforts, but this term may lead to occupational suicide if it becomes a justification for not seeing and adapting to the world ahead.
The Lost Lawyer
Title | The Lost Lawyer PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 250 |
Release | 1921 |
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The Lost Lawyer
Title | The Lost Lawyer PDF eBook |
Author | George A. Birmingham |
Publisher | |
Pages | 242 |
Release | 1924 |
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Lost Lawyer Found
Title | Lost Lawyer Found PDF eBook |
Author | Diego Faleck |
Publisher | LAP Lambert Academic Publishing |
Pages | 56 |
Release | 2011-07-01 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9783844380330 |
It is the purpose of this essay to analyze and criticize the noted document of Professor Anthony Kronman entitled "The Lost Lawyer" which eloquently and widely describes the crisis affecting the legal profession and the ideal of what he calls "the lawyer-statesman, and to do so by contrasting his ideas to the existing figure of the "problem-solving lawyer," whose premisses are found in Harvard's modern negotiation literature.
The Lost Lawyer
Title | The Lost Lawyer PDF eBook |
Author | George A. BIRMINGHAM (pseud.) |
Publisher | |
Pages | 242 |
Release | 1921 |
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