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This detailed portrait of American lawyers traces their efforts to professionalize during the last 100 years by erecting barriers to control the quality and quantity of entrants. Abel describes the rise and fall of restrictive practices that dampened competition among lawyers and with outsiders. He shows how lawyers simultaneously sought to increase access to justice while stimulating demand for services, and their efforts to regulate themselves while forestalling external control. Data on income and status illuminate the success of these efforts. Charting the dramatic transformation of the pr

An entertaining diversion for Lawyers and others, Twenty Famous Lawyers focuses on household names and high profile cases. Contains valuable insights into legal ways and means and looks at the challenges of advocacy, persuasion and the finest traditions of the Law.

Author is a top legal headhunter and former Skadden attorney who knows where the bodies lie and how to make lawyers spill the beans. Interviewees range from courtroom superstars and megafirm partners to mid-level associates in the trenches and small town lawyers. Law students get a foretaste of real life in various practice areas before they commit a 150,000 mistake.

Preface / Philip S.C. Lewis -- Revisioning lawyers / Richard L. Abel -- England and Wales: a comparison of the professional projects of barristers and solicitors / Richard L. Abel -- German advocates: a highly regulated profession / Erhard Blankenburg and Ulrike Schultz -- The present state of Japanese practicing attorneys: on the way to full professionalization? / Kahei Rokumoto -- Legal experts in Belgium / Luc Huyse -- The Venezuelan legal profession: lawyers in an inegalitarian society / Rogelio P(c)♭rez Perdomo -- Feminization of the legal profession: the comparative sociology of women lawyers / Carrie Menkel-Meadow -- Putting law back into the sociology of lawyers / Richard L. Abel and Philip S.C. Lewis

The concept of professional responsibility -- Admission to practice -- The lawyer-client relationship -- Duties to the client and their enforcement -- Lawyers' duty to clients in tort -- Lawyer-client conflict and influence -- Concurrent conflicts -- Acting against former clients -- Duty to account -- Confidentiality -- Legal professional privilege -- Privilege in aid of settlement -- Employed ("in-house") lawyers -- Costs disclosure and costs agreements -- Recovery of costs from clients -- Solicitors' liens -- Duty to the court -- Particular applications of the duty to the administration of justice -- Duty to obey and uphold the law -- Conduct of practice -- Relations with the profession and third parties -- Undertakings -- The disciplinary jurisdiction -- Disciplinary procedures -- Types of misconduct.

This inspiring book contains letters of encouragement and advice from lawyers with disabilities to law students and new lawyers with disabilities. The writers share their perspectives on work and disability, based on their own experiences of success and setbacks.