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200 10$aIn the Interests of Justice$b[electronic resource] $eReforming the Legal Profession
210   $aOxford $cOxford University Press, USA$d2003
215   $a1 online resource (283 p.)
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
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327   $aContents; 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
330   $aTwo 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 Association of A
606   $aLaw offices -- United States
606   $aLawyers -- United States
606   $aPractice of law -- United States
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615  4$aLawyers -- United States.
615  4$aPractice of law -- United States.
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