Swimming in deep water
Subtitle: lawyers, judges, and our troubled legal profession
By: William Domnarski
Publisher: American Bar Association
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Chicago, Illinois
Language: eng
Number of pages: 263
ISBN-13: 9781627224055
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Lawyers; Judges; Practice of law
Other titles: Lawyers, judges, and our troubled legal profession
Description: "Based on his thirty years of practice and reading about the profession, William Domnarski in Swimming in deep water: lawyers, judges, and our troubled legal profession delivers bite-sized bits of erudition in fifty 1,400 word essays that with a sharp edge skewer the status quo worlds of lawyers and judges, and argues for a rethinking of the legal profession and what makes the practice of law worthwhile."--Book jacket.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Preface; title: Alone but connected; title: Are we happy yet?; title: Arrogance; title: Associates used and abused; title: Being paid to shower; title: Betrayal in plain view; title: Big law fees and big trouble; title: Big law and poetic justice; title: Brainy lawyers; title: Can we talk?; title: Clients and their lawyers; title: Contemptuous; title: Criminal defense lawyers and their tough job; title: Discovery wars; title: Dissecting the profession; title: Don't pooh-pooh the profession; title: Dressing for success; title: Federal reporter, third series; title: Food fights masquerading as depositions; title: Glib and oily art; title: Hope and dread: the nature of legal research; title: I am right because I say I am; title: Introduction to justice; title: Judicial writing; title: Laugh out loud; title: Lawyers gone bad; title: Lawyers writing; title: Legal writing instruction misunderston; title: Literary allusions; title: Modestly put; title: Movies and television in judicial opinions; title: Nature of lawyers and lawyering; title: Nihilists among us; title: Personality and office space; title: Practice before an unhappy judge; title: Professional cynicism; title: Prosecutors; title: The saddest place no more; title: Seeing yourself and others; title: Serendipitous research; title: Shakespeare; title: So, how did I do?; title: Taking instruction from others; title: Thinking like a lawyer; title: Typographical errors; title: What am I worth?; title: What would Socrates think?; title: Why are we (lawyers) so disliked?; title: You don't say?; title: Zeal or no zeal.