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Author:   Andrew Francis
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9780754677444

ISBN 10:   0754677443
Pages:   226
Publication Date:   30 September 2011
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction: Lawyering at the Edge; Chapter 2 Theorizing Professional Change and Advancement in Legal Services; Chapter 3 Outsiders in Legal Education and Beyond: Marginal Students, Professional Identity and Access to the Legal Profession; Chapter 4 Legal Executives: Chasing Shadows or the Third Branch of the Profession?; Chapter 5 Legal Aid and Legal Activists: Progressive Lawyering and Mainstream Professionalism; Chapter 6 Wealth Professionals: Expert Knowledge at the Intersection of Law and Accountancy; Chapter 7 Collective Professional Projects, Individual Models of Advancement and the Legal Services Act 2007; Chapter 8 Emergent and Divergent Models of Legal Professionalism: Towards a Contingent Professionalism;

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'Professions are paragons of inertia: once they achieve market control and respectability they stoutly defend the status quo in the name of a timeless professionalism . English lawyers are the worst offenders. Change, when it occurs, comes from the periphery and from outside. Andrew Francis's book is a path-breaking account of how relatively marginal actors in the English legal profession are forcing change on a reluctant core.' Richard Abel, University of California, Los Angeles, USA 'By focussing on the mainstream activities of lawyers we forget how much legal work is done by others in legal services. Andrew Francis takes us by the hand to the edge so that we can peer over and see for the first time what these edge-workers are doing. Covering legal executives, multidisciplinary trusts and estates personnel, and the potentially new organizations that will evolve from the Legal Services Act, these marginal workers are now leading the legal profession in new and exciting directions.' John Flood, University of Westminster, UK and University of Miami, USA 'I was hooked... The arguments made are convincing and the empirical work is used well throughout to bring home points and illustrate arguments. All [substantive chapters] were fascinating. The book as a whole pushed me to reconsider my preconceptions of what the legal professions are and should be.' The Law Teacher 'At the Edge of Law constitutes a welcome addition to the literature on both the legal services market in England and Wales, and on legal professionalism itself...The notion of 'edge-worker' that Francis introduces deserves to be taken very seriously in charting the potentially seismic changes that are now re-shaping the UK legal services market... This is a book that is ahead of its time, [and] it makes an important contribution to the field... At the Edge of Law both provides an excellent mapping (in Chapter 2) of the main theoretical frameworks, and makes its own, relatively distinctive, contribution... [Francis] emphasise[s] a number of central devices which both advance our understanding of legal services in complex terms, and provide some pointers as to ways in which his insights might be used... As Francis's analysis ably demonstrates, it is by looking over the edge that we can begin to see more clearly the liminality of modern legal professionalism itself: its varied discourses, forms and organizational structures, its uncertainty over values, and, at its core, the continuing pursuit of occupational closure.' Journal of Law and Society 'I wish Andrew Francis' latest book had been written several years ago... excellent introduction to the nature of contemporary professionalism which will appeal to readers from any jurisdiction...' The Journal of Things we Like (Lots) '... the influence of this text will be long-reaching and thought provoking as regards the future of legal professionalism and in particular its effect on legal education and training.' Legal Education Digest

'Professions are paragons of inertia: once they achieve market control and respectability they stoutly defend the status quo in the name of a timeless professionalism . English lawyers are the worst offenders. Change, when it occurs, comes from the periphery and from outside. Andrew Francis's book is a path-breaking account of how relatively marginal actors in the English legal profession are forcing change on a reluctant core.' Richard Abel, University of California, Los Angeles, USA 'By focussing on the mainstream activities of lawyers we forget how much legal work is done by others in legal services. Andrew Francis takes us by the hand to the edge so that we can peer over and see for the first time what these edge-workers are doing. Covering legal executives, multidisciplinary trusts and estates personnel, and the potentially new organizations that will evolve from the Legal Services Act, these marginal workers are now leading the legal profession in new and exciting directions.' John Flood, University of Westminster, UK and University of Miami, USA 'I was hooked... The arguments made are convincing and the empirical work is used well throughout to bring home points and illustrate arguments. All [substantive chapters] were fascinating. The book as a whole pushed me to reconsider my preconceptions of what the legal professions are and should be.' The Law Teacher 'At the Edge of Law constitutes a welcome addition to the literature on both the legal services market in England and Wales, and on legal professionalism itself...The notion of 'edge-worker' that Francis introduces deserves to be taken very seriously in charting the potentially seismic changes that are now re-shaping the UK legal services market... This is a book that is ahead of its time, [and] it makes an important contribution to the field... At the Edge of Law both provides an excellent mapping (in Chapter 2) of the main theoretical frameworks, and makes its own, relatively distinctive, contri

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Professor Andrew Francis is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Law, Keele University. He has published widely in the area of the legal profession and legal education.

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