The American legal profession in crisis : resistance and responses to change /
Moliterno, James E., 1953-
The American legal profession in crisis : resistance and responses to change / James E. Moliterno. - 1 online resource (252 pages)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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.
9780199332847 (ebook) 0199332843 (ebook) 9780199344185 (electronic bk.) 0199344183 (electronic bk.)
1900-1999
Practice of law--United States.
Practice of law--History--United States--20th century.
Law--Social aspects--United States.
Social change--United States.
Droit--Pratique--États-Unis.
Droit--Pratique--Histoire--États-Unis--20e siècle.
LAW--Legal Profession.
Law--Social aspects.
Practice of law.
Social change.
United States.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
History.
KF300 / .M648 2013
340.02373
The American legal profession in crisis : resistance and responses to change / James E. Moliterno. - 1 online resource (252 pages)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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.
9780199332847 (ebook) 0199332843 (ebook) 9780199344185 (electronic bk.) 0199344183 (electronic bk.)
1900-1999
Practice of law--United States.
Practice of law--History--United States--20th century.
Law--Social aspects--United States.
Social change--United States.
Droit--Pratique--États-Unis.
Droit--Pratique--Histoire--États-Unis--20e siècle.
LAW--Legal Profession.
Law--Social aspects.
Practice of law.
Social change.
United States.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
History.
KF300 / .M648 2013
340.02373