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UNINA9910453369203321 |
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Morgan Thomas D |
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The vanishing American lawyer / / Thomas D. Morgan |
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New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2010 |
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©2010 |
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1 online resource (260 p.) |
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Lawyers - United States |
Practice of law - United States |
Law - Study and teaching - United States |
Electronic books. |
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""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""CHAPTER 1. THE UNSETTLED WORLD OF AMERICAN LAWYERS""; ""A. Pervasive Lawyer Anxiety""; ""B. What Is a Lawyer?""; ""C. Why Lawyers Anxiety May Be Intensifying""; ""D. Putting Some of the Concerns Into Perspective""; ""E. Why Should Lawyers Anxiety Interest Us?""; ""CHAPTER 2. AMERICAN LAWYERS ARE NOT PART OF A PROFESSION""; ""A. The Problematic Emphasis on Law as a Profession""; ""B. Two Appropriate Uses of the Term Professional""; ""C. The Mistake of Transforming Professionals Into a Profession"" |
""D. Could the World Get Along Without a Legal Profession?"" ""E. Some Perspective on Lawyers as a Profession The English Legal Tradition""; ""F. The Early Days in America and the Rejection of English Law and Lawyering""; ""G. The American Bar Association and the Renewed Rhetoric that Law Is a Profession""; ""H. The Significance of the Survey of the Legal Profession""; ""I. What Makes the Professionalism Ideal Survive?""; ""1. Confidentiality of Client Information""; ""2. Committed Advocacy on a Client's Behalf""; ""3. Preservation of the Rule of Law and Independence From Clients"" |
""4. Making Legal Services Widely Available"" ""J. Law in America Is Not a Profession And That's a Good Thing""; ""CHAPTER 3. THE TRANSFORMATION OF LAW PRACTICE SINCE THE 1970's""; ""A. Judicial |
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Abrogation of Lawyer Standards""; ""B. The Dramatic Growth in the Number of Lawyers""; ""C. The Impact of Globalization on Lawyers and Law Practice""; ""D. Modern Information Technology and the Transformation of Lawyers Work""; ""E. The Growth of Law Firms as Premier Practice Organizations""; ""1. How Lawyers Charge for Their Services""; ""2. The Matter of Leverage"" |
""3. The Law Firm as a Tournament"" ""F. Transformation of the Hemispheres of the Bar""; ""G. Transformation of the Relative Power of In-House and Outside Counsel""; ""H. The Diminished Significance of Licensing""; ""CHAPTER 4. HOW AMERICAN LAWYERS AND FIRMS SHOULD ADDRESS THE NEW REALITIES""; ""A. The Future Course of an Individual Lawyer's Career""; ""1. Lawyers Offering Basic Services for Individual Clients""; ""2. Contested Disputes Requiring Resolution""; ""3. Lawyers for Corporate and Other Organizational Clients""; ""4. Lives Individual Lawyers Are Likely to Lead"" |
""B. Private Firms Are Likely to Be as Important as Ever""""1. Firms Help Lawyers Diversify Risk""; ""2. Firms Help Achieve Economies of Scope, i.e., the Ability to Work on Projects""; ""3. Firms Can Develop Reputations and Brand Names The Matter of Marketing""; ""C. The Challenge of Meeting Diverse Client Needs Anywhere in the World""; ""1. The Need to Serve Clients that Have National and Worldwide Activities""; ""2. Developing Practice Teams With Diverse Skills""; ""3. Making Racial and Gender Diversity a Part of the Firm's Reality"" |
""D. Developing Institutional Strength in a World of Individual Stars"" |
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UNINA9910817075303321 |
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Figuier Louis <1819-1894, > |
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Les Merveilles de la science : Description populaire des inventions modernes : machine à vapeur, bateaux à vapeur, locomotive et chemins de fer, locomobiles, machine électrique, paratonnerres, pile de Volta, électro-magnétisme / / par Louis Figuier |
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Paris, France : , : BnF-Partenariats, , 2016 |
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©1867 |
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1 online resource (938 pages) : illustrations, portraits |
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Inventions |
Inventions - History |
Industrial arts - History |
Engineering - History |
SCIENCE - General |
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Originally published by Furne Juvet (Paris), 1867. |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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