Legal professions
Subtitle: work, structure and organization
By: edited by Jerry Van Hoy.
Contributors: Van Hoy, Jerry.
Series: Sociology of crime, law, and deviance -- v. 3
Publisher: JAI; Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Amsterdam; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 273
Subjects: Lawyers.; Practice of law.; Sociological jurisprudence.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Part one: Change in the structure of legal professions; title: The changing patterns of career mobility in the legal profeesion: a log-linear analysis of Chicago lawyers (1975 and 1995) / Harris H. Kim; title: The State-lawyer relationship in England and Wales / Gerard Hanlon; title: Mergers, mergers everywhere: constructing the global law firm in Germany / Susanne Lace; title: Part two: Legal culture, professional time, and job satisfaction; title: The symbolic meaning of professional time / Cynthia Fuchs Epstein and Carroll Seron; title: Time, legal culture and legal process / Robert Dingwall, William L. F. Felstiner and Tom Durkin; title: Explaining why lawyers want to leave the practice of law / Jean E. Wallace; title: Part three: Lawyers and their work; title: "We live on the edge of extinction all the time:" entrepreneurs, innovation and the plaintiffs' bar in the wake of tort reform / Stephen Daniels and Joanne Martin; title: Career activism by lawyers: consequences for the person, the legal profession, and social movements / Lynn C. Jones; title: Lawyering in an age of popular politics: plea bargaining, legal practice and the structure of the Boston Bar, 1800-1860 / Mary E. Vogel; title: Perceptions of good and bad judging: an analysis of the Illinois judicial development project / Katherine Cermak and Richard Block