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Author Moliterno, James E., 1953- author.

Title The American legal profession in crisis : resistance and responses to change / James E. Moliterno
Published Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2013]

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Description 1 online resource (252 pages)
Contents What crisis? : who speaks for the profession? -- Immigration in the Early 20th Century -- Communist infiltration -- A new kind of lawyering : the Civil rights movement -- The deepest embarrassment : Watergate -- The litigation boom -- The loss of civility -- The fear of sharing power : MDPs and ABS -- Multijurisdictional practice, globalization, technology, and economic crisis -- Changing the change- game
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Practice of law -- United States
Practice of law -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Law -- Social aspects -- United States
Social change -- United States
LAW -- Legal Profession.
Law -- Social aspects
Practice of law
Social change
United States
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780199332847
0199332843
9780199344185
0199344183