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In the Interests of Justice [[electronic resource] ] : Reforming the Legal Profession



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Autore: Rhode Deborah L Visualizza persona
Titolo: In the Interests of Justice [[electronic resource] ] : Reforming the Legal Profession Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Oxford, : Oxford University Press, USA, 2003
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (283 p.)
Disciplina: 340.02373
349.73
Soggetto topico: Law offices -- United States
Lawyers -- United States
Practice of law -- United States
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di contenuto: 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
Sommario/riassunto: 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 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
Titolo autorizzato: In the Interests of Justice  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-280-70413-6
9786610704132
0-19-802842-3
0-19-534737-4
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910451246203321
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