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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.

Publication Info. Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2013]

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Description 1 online resource (252 pages)
text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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Subject Practice of law -- United States.
Practice of law.
United States.
Practice of law -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
History.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Law -- Social aspects -- United States.
Law -- Social aspects.
Law.
Social change -- United States.
Social change.
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Subject Law.
Other Form: Print version: Moliterno, James E., 1953- American legal profession in crisis. Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2013] 9780199917631 (DLC) 2012043544 (OCoLC)815873468
ISBN 9780199332847 (ebook)
0199332843 (ebook)
9780199344185 (electronic book)
0199344183 (electronic book)
9780199917631
0199917639