American Legal Profession in Crisis
Subtitle: Resistance and Responses to Change
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780199917631
Subjects: Social change; Practice of law
Description: Central to the identity of the American legal profession are its systems of self-regulation. Throughout history, the legal profession has tried to hold tight to its traditional values and structure during times of self-identified crisis. This book analyzes the efforts of the legal profession to protect and maintain the status quo even as the world around it changed. The book argues that with striking consistency, the profession has resisted the societal change happening around it, and sought to ban or discourage new models of legal representation created by such change.