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<br> Rhode brings a livley style to a subject that is more typically covered in a drone of rhetoric and legalese. Her frame of reference is expansive enough to include Seneca, Dostoevski, Wilde, Auden and even a New Yorker cartoon in which a lawyer asks his client: 'So, Mr. Pitikin, how much justice can you afford?' ....It's refreshing to read a book about lawyers that ponders 'the profession's moral universe' without a sarcastic smirk.' --Jonathan Kirsch, The Washington Post Book World<p><br> This is an important and timely book. It provides a comprehensive survey of the common complaints against lawyers and the legal system; a careful analysis of the most serious problems with the way lawyers perform their jobs, and make--or fail to make--available their services, and an imposing array of ambitious but workable proposals for reform. The book expertly builds upon the best that has been thought and said about legal ethics and legal practices in the last 25 years. --Robert W. Gordon, Fred A. Johnston Professor of Law, Yale University<p><br> A thoughtful and well documented analysis, from a broad public perspective, of basic and enduring problems of the American legal profession. In the Interests of Justice presents the insights of a distinguished scholar into legal ethics, the cost of legal services, the delays in the legal system, the role of the law schools, and 'life' in contemporary law practice. --Geoffrey C. Hazard, Jr., Trustee Professor of Law, University of Pennsylvania<p><br>

Rhode brings a livley style to a subject that is more typically covered in a drone of rhetoric and legalese. Her frame of reference is expansive enough to include Seneca, Dostoevski, Wilde, Auden and even a New Yorker cartoon in which a lawyer asks his client: 'So, Mr. Pitikin, how much justice can you afford?' ....It's refreshing to read a book about lawyers that ponders 'the profession's moral universe' without a sarcastic smirk.' --Jonathan Kirsch, The Washington Post Book World<br> This is an important and timely book. It provides a comprehensive survey of the common complaints against lawyers and the legal system; a careful analysis of the most serious problems with the way lawyers perform their jobs, and make--or fail to make--available their services, and an imposing array of ambitious but workable proposals for reform. The book expertly builds upon the best that has been thought and said about legal ethics and legal practices in the last 25 years. --Robert W. Gordon, Fred A. Johnston Professor of Law, Yale University<br> A thoughtful and well documented analysis, from a broad public perspective, of basic and enduring problems of the American legal profession. In the Interests of Justice presents the insights of a distinguished scholar into legal ethics, the cost of legal services, the delays in the legal system, the role of the law schools, and 'life' in contemporary law practice. --Geoffrey C. Hazard, Jr., Trustee Professor of Law, University of Pennsylvania<br>

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Deborah L. Rhode is Professor of Law and Director of the Keck Center on Legal Ethics and the Legal Profession at Stanford Law School. A past president of the Association of American Law Schools and senior counsel for the House Judiciary Committee on impeachment issues during Clinton's impeachment proceedings, she is the author of Legal Ethics, The Legal Profession: Responsibility and Regulation and, forthcoming from OUP, Ethics in Practice: Lawyers' Roles, Responsibilities, and Regulation. She lives in Stanford, California.

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