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.
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505 0 |a Contents; Acknowledgments; ONE: The Profession and the Public Interest; TWO: Lawyers and Their Discontent; THREE: The Advocate's Role in the Adversary System; FOUR: America's Sporting Theory of Justice; FIVE: Too Much Law/Too Little Justice: Too Much Rhetoric/Too Little Reform; SIX: Regulation of the Profession; SEVEN: Legal Education; EIGHT: Professional Reform; Notes; Index. 
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