American Lawyers.
Title:
American Lawyers.
Author:
Abel, Richard L.
ISBN:
9780198021858
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (423 pages)
Contents:
CONTENTS -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. THEORIES OF THE PROFESSIONS -- Weberian Theories of Professions in the Marketplace -- Marxist Theories of Professions in the Class Structure -- Structural Functional Theories of Professions and Social Order -- Theoretical Frameworks for Understanding American Lawyers -- 3. CONTROLLING THE PRODUCTION OF LAWYERS -- Lawyers Without a Profession -- The Rise of Professionalism -- Tightening Control Over Supply -- The Trajectory of Entry Control -- 4. THE CONSEQUENCES OF CONTROLLING ENTRY -- The Number of Lawyers -- Influences on the Production of Lawyers -- The Characteristics of Lawyers -- Demographic Change -- 5. RESTRICTIVE PRACTICES: CONTROLLING PRODUCTION BY PRODUCERS -- Defining the Monopoly -- Defending the Turf Against Other Lawyers -- Price Fixing -- Advertising and Solicitation -- Specialization: Recapturing Control by Redefining the Market -- The Rise and Fall of Restrictive Practices -- 6. DEMAND CREATION: A NEW STRATEGY IN THE PROFESSIONAL PROJECT? -- The Rediscovery of Legal Need -- The Limitations of Professional Charity -- Institutionalizing the Right to Legal Defense in Criminal Cases -- The Contested Terrain of Civil Legal Aid -- Public Interest Law -- Expanding the Middle-Class Clientele -- Is Demand Creation an Effective Means of Market Control and Status Enhancement? -- 7. SELF-REGULATION -- The Promulgation of Ethical Rules -- The Disciplinary Process -- Protecting the Client Against Financial Loss -- Ensuring Professional Competence -- The Record of Self-Regulation -- 8. HOW SUCCESSFUL WAS THE PROFESSIONAL PROJECT? -- The Income of Lawyers -- The Status of Lawyers -- The Varying Fortunes of Lawyers -- 9. DIFFERENTIATION WITHIN THE LEGAL PROFESSION -- The Professional Periphery: Employed Lawyers -- The Core of the Profession: Private Practice.
One Profession or Many? The Dilemmas of Collective Action -- 10. REPRODUCING THE PROFESSION -- Law School Socialization -- The Rationalization of the Labor Market -- Allocation to Roles -- The Revival of Apprenticeship -- The Institutionalization of Reproduction -- 11. THE FUTURE OF THE LEGAL PROFESSION -- TABLES -- Entry Barriers -- Number of Lawyers -- Characteristics of Lawyers -- Self-Regulation -- Differentiation Within the Legal Profession -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- Theories of the Professions -- American Lawyers -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
Abstract:
This detailed portrait of American lawyers traces their efforts to professionalize during the last 100 years by erecting barriers to control the quality and quantity of entrants. Abel describes the rise and fall of restrictive practices that dampened competition among lawyers and with outsiders. He shows how lawyers simultaneously sought to increase access to justice while stimulating demand for services, and their efforts to regulate themselves while forestalling external control. Data on income and status illuminate the success of these efforts. Charting the dramatic transformation of the profession over the last two decades, Abel documents the growing number and importance of lawyers employed outside private practice (in business and government, as judges and teachers) and the displacement of corporate clients they serve. Noting the complexity of matching ever more diverse entrants with more stratified roles, he depicts the mechanism that law schools and employers have created to allocate graduates to jobs and socialize them within their new environments. Abel concludes with critical reflections on possible and desirable futures for the legal profession.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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