In the Interests of Justice : Reforming the Legal Profession.

In the Interests of Justice : Reforming the Legal Profession.

Two thousand years ago, Seneca described advocates not as seekers of truth but as accessories to injustice, "smothered by their prosperity." This unflattering assessment has only worsened over time. The vast majority of Americans now perceive lawyers as arrogant, unaffordable hired guns wh...

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Main Author: Rhode, Deborah L.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, USA, 2003.
Subjects:
Lawyers > United States.
Practice of law > United States.
Lawyers
Practice of law
United States
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Summary:Two thousand years ago, Seneca described advocates not as seekers of truth but as accessories to injustice, "smothered by their prosperity." This unflattering assessment has only worsened over time. The vast majority of Americans now perceive lawyers as arrogant, unaffordable hired guns whose ethical practices rank just slightly above those of used car salesmen. In this penetrating new book, Deborah L. Rhode goes beyond the commonplace attacks on lawyers to provide the first systematic study of the structural problems confronting the legal profession. A past president of the Associat.
Physical Description:1 online resource (283 pages)
ISBN:9780195347371
0195347374
1280704136
9781280704130
9786610704132
6610704139
0198028423
9780198028420
Language:English.
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Print version record.

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