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UNINA9910963833703321 |
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Autore |
Kelly Michael J. <1937-> |
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Lives of lawyers revisited : transformation and resilience in the organizations of practice / / Michael J. Kelly |
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Ann Arbor, : University of Michigan Press, c2007 |
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1-282-46311-X |
9786612463112 |
0-472-02517-1 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (429 p.) |
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Law, meaning, and violence |
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Practice of law - United States |
Lawyers - United States |
Law firms - United States |
Legal ethics - United States |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 395-404) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Chapter 1. The Fishing Expedition; Part 1. Stories of Law Practices; Chapter 2. Marks, Feinberg, Fried and Burch; Chapter 3. Public Interest Law at the Maine Public Utilities Commission; Chapter 4. The Lawyers of Standish Development Company; Chapter 5. Mahoney, Bourne and Thiemes; Chapter 6. McKinnon Sieves; Part 2. Reflections on the Profession; Chapter 7. Change and Continuity in the Organizations of Practice; Chapter 8. Thinking about Practice Organizations; Chapter 9. The Idea of Profession; Afterword: Reflections on Describing a Sardine Factory; Appendix; Notes; References |
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The past two decades have seen profound changes in the legal profession. Lives of Lawyers Revisited extends Michael Kelly's work in the original Lives of Lawyers, offering unique insights into the nature of these changes, examined through stories of five extraordinarily varied law practices. By placing the spotlight on organizations as phenomena that generate their own logic and tensions, Lives of Lawyers Revisited speaks to the experience of many lawyers and anticipates important |
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issues on the professional horizon. Michael Kelly has done it again! His Lives of Lawyers Revisited is a very easy read about some very difficult notions like 'litigation blindness' and law as a business. It presents some fascinating perspectives on our profession. -J. Michael McWilliams, Past President, American Bar Association The best single book about the American realities and possibilities of the American legal profession, combining an empathic and insightful account of law practice with a penetrating analysis of the wider context of professional work. -Marc Galanter, University of Wisconsin Michael Kelly believes that professional values and conduct are not realized in codes, but in the experiences of practice, and that practice draws its routines and ideals from organizations. Through his studies of lawyers in various firms, closely observed and sympathetically described, Kelly reveals how differently organizations adapt to the intense pressures of today's practice environment. His method of linking individual life-experiences to organizational strategies and the external constraints of competition and client demands infuses realism and richness into the concept of professionalism and makes this one of the most interesting and original books on professions and professionalism to appear in years. -Robert W. Gordon, Yale Law School In his two volumes of Lives of Lawyers, Michael Kelly explores legal ethics in an unusual, and unusually rewarding, way. Rather than focusing on rules or arguments, Kelly looks at the kind of lives lawyers lead. Ethics, Socrates thought, is about how to live one's life, and Kelly takes the Socratic question to heart. He explores the institutions lawyers work in and the choices they make. He writes with intelligence, great insight, and above all with heart. This is a superb book. -David Luban, Georgetown University Michael J. Kelly is President and Chairman of the Board of the National Senior Citizens Law Center, an advocacy group for older Americans of limited means. |
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UNINA9910957930403321 |
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Women, literacy, and development : alternative perspectives / / edited by Anna Robinson-Pant |
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London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2004 |
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1-134-35332-4 |
1-134-35333-2 |
1-138-86657-1 |
1-280-05150-7 |
0-203-30023-8 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (272 p.) |
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Collana |
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Routledge studies in literacy ; ; 1 |
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Robinson-PantAnna <1960-> |
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Literacy - Developing countries |
Literacy programs - Developing countries |
Women - Education - Developing countries |
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Livello bibliografico |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of illustrations; Notes on the contributors; 1 'The illiterate woman'; 2 Distorted mirrors; 3 Implications of the New Literacy Studies for researching women's literacy programmes; 4 Creating the gender text; 5 Qualitative methods in researching women's literacy; 6 A self-reflexive analysis of power and positionality; 7 Functional literacy, gender and identities; 8 'Women are lions in dresses'; 9 Closing the gap; 10 Women, literacy, development, and gender; 11 'I will stay here until I die'; 12 'Literacy brought us to the forefront' |
13 Functional participation14 'Out of school, now in the group'; Afterword; Index |
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Women's literacy is often assumed to be the key to promoting better health, family planning and nutrition in the developing world. This has dominated much development research and has led to women's literacy being promoted by governments and aid agencies as the key to improving the lives of poor families. High dropout rates from literacy programmes suggest that the assumed link between women's literacy |
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and development can be disputed. This book explores why women themselves want to learn to read and write and why, all too often, they decide that literacy classes are not for them. |
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