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Record Nr.

UNINA9910825099103321

Autore

Rhode Deborah L

Titolo

Lawyers as leaders / / Deborah L. Rhode

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, c2013

ISBN

0-19-932903-6

0-19-989623-2

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (313 p.)

Disciplina

340.068/4

Soggetti

Lawyers - United States - Psychology

Leadership - United States

Leadership - United States - Psychological aspects

Leadership - Moral and ethical aspects - United States

Practice of law - United States - Psychological aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Lawyers as leaders -- The nature of leadership -- Developing leadership -- Leadership capabilities -- Ethics in leadership -- Leadership scandals -- Diversity -- Law firms -- Social change -- Leaders' legacy.

Sommario/riassunto

No occupation in America supplies a greater proportion of leaders than the legal profession, yet it has done little to prepare them for this role. Lawyers sit at the helm of a vast array of powerful law firms, businesses, governmental, and nonprofit organizations. Two of the last three presidents have been lawyers. And yet almost no occupation rouses greater public distrust. This paradox raises two important questions: Why do we look to lawyers to lead, and why do so many of them prove to be so ill-prepared for that role? In Lawyers as Leaders, eminent law professor Deborah Rhode not only answ