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Author Freer, Elaine, author

Title Social mobility and the legal profession : the case of professional associations and access to the English Bar / Elaine Freer
Published New York, NY : Routledge, 2018

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Contents Social Mobility and the Legal Profession- Front Cover; Social Mobility and the Legal Profession; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Statutes and cases; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Chapter 1: Social mobility and the professions in the 21st century; 1.1 Wider policy and societal concern with social mobility; 1.2 Professional association as interventionist actor: Inner Templeâ#x80;#x99;s Pegasus Access and Support Scheme as case study; 1.3 Methodological notes; 1.4 Grounded theory; 1.5 Overview of the book
Chapter 2: Social mobility and the legal profession: getting in and getting on2.1 Structure of the Bar; 2.2 Route to practise; 2.3 Social mobility at the Bar over the 20th century; 2.4 Getting in and getting on: mini-pupillages and access; 2.5 Key arguments; Chapter 3: Conceptualising professional associations: powerful or power-hungry?; 3.1 Conceptualising professional associations; 3.2 Inns of Court as professional associations: inventor or agent?; 3.3 Conclusion; Chapter 4: Values, attachment and professional associations; 4.1 Central value system of the Bar
4.2 Initiating organisational change4.3 Field position of embedded professional associations; 4.4 Motivations for increasing diversity; 4.5 Conclusion; Chapter 5: The importance of individuals within professional associations; 5.1 â#x80;#x98;When I came to the Bar . . .â#x80;#x99;: the importance of individual stories; 5.2 Individual power within powerful organisations: embedded agency; 5.3 Challenging prevailing institutional logics; 5.4 Can a professional association alter the conception of professionalism within its segment or arena?; 5.5 Challenges to transfer of values in the case study; 5.6 Conclusion
Chapter 6: Transformative action for social mobility: radical innovation or maintenance of status quo?6.1 The Bar as a social class, or the Bar as a series of social norms; 6.2 Work experience: an opportunity for identity formation; 6.3 Challenges in securing and participating in work experience; 6.4 An international comparison; 6.5 Is the Pegasus Access and Support Scheme fulfilling its aim?; 6.6 Conclusion; Chapter 7: Wider constraints on interventions by professional associations: challenges within and challenges without?
7.1 â#x80;#x98;So limp itâ#x80;#x99;s unbelievableâ#x80;#x99;: diminishing power of professional associations of the Bar7.2 Habituation to the habitus: professional education as cultural reproduction; 7.3 Structuring properties of the field; 7.4 â#x80;#x98;Itâ#x80;#x99;s not the well-trodden path, reallyâ#x80;#x99;: peers, family and education of non-traditional aspirant entrants; 7.5 Effects of a post-professional world on the Bar; 7.6 Conclusion; Chapter 8: Putting theory into practice: general themes for access schemes; 8.1 General principles; 8.2 Context is everything: practical challenges
Summary This book will be crucial reading for students across a variety of disciplines. A broadly socio-legal text, using a mixed-methods design combining grounded theory with an in-depth case study, this research explores a rarely-seen facet of the legal profession. Sociologists studying the practical effect of sociological concepts from theorists such as Bourdieu and Weber; those studying the legal profession from the sociological, law or psychological angles; anyone examining elite professions; management students examining the operation of professional associations and the ways in which these mobilise to take action on controversial topics; those studying the role and creation of outreach: all will find something of interest in this monograph. For those within the legal profession itself it also provides a look into an oft-hidden world: that of the English Bar. A notoriously secretiveprofession, traditional, elite and suspicious of research - the case study evaluatingan outreach programme sheds light on how this fascinating world operates when trying to engage in progressive steps. Through the eyes of a professional association seeking to improve socio-economic diversity in the profession through instituting an access programme focussed on work experience, it examines not just how professional association action may succeed or fail, but why. With foreword by Lord Neuberger, former President of the Supreme Court and Chair of the Working Party on Entry to the Bar
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Lawyers -- England
Professional associations -- England
LAW -- Civil Procedure.
LAW -- Legal Services.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- Judicial Branch.
Lawyers.
Professional associations.
England.
Form Electronic book
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