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Author:   Deborah L. Rhode
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 23.10cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 15.50cm
Weight:   0.499kg
ISBN:  

9780190933753

ISBN 10:   0190933755
Pages:   248
Publication Date:   28 February 2019
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 The Conditions of Practice Chapter 3 Access to Justice Chapter 4 Diversity in the Profession Chapter 5 Regulation of the Profession Chapter 6 Legal Education Chapter 7 Conclusion

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The Trouble with Lawyers is well indexed and written in a lively, engaging style. Rhode intersperses anecdotes with statements of facts in a way that makes for an inviting text. Who should read this book? Everyone contemplating becoming a lawyer, college prelaw placement advisers, law school librarians and placement officers, and anyone interested in legal ethics and the practicalities of the legal profession should read The Trouble with Lawyers. -Elizabeth A. Greenfield, Law Library Journal This important book should be widely read and could lay the foundation for a significant reform agenda. Highly recommended. -J. A. Pierceson, University of Illinois at Springfield, Choice Rhode's interesting book The Trouble with Lawyers represents a comprehensive account of the challenges which face the American Bar and will be of great interest to English Counsel. This is an important book at an important time for the legal profession both here and abroad so do read it carefully as it could affect your own future. Thank you Deborah for a great contribution to the continuing debate. Phillip Taylor MBE and Elizabeth Taylor, Richmond Green Chambers [An] honest, well researched account of the spectre of decreasing public access to justice that is resulting, inter alia, from an unsustainably increasing number of law schools, law students, and lawyers in the United States. -Magdalene D'Silva, The Modern Law Review

"""This is a well-researched book and, in many ways, makes you proud to be British - we in England and Wales can sit back smugly and say we are ahead on diversity, regulation, complaints and training."" -- David Pickup, Law Society Gazette ""The Trouble with Lawyers is well indexed and written in a lively, engaging style. Rhode intersperses anecdotes with statements of facts in a way that makes for an inviting text. Who should read this book? Everyone contemplating becoming a lawyer, college prelaw placement advisers, law school librarians and placement officers, and anyone interested in legal ethics and the practicalities of the legal profession should read The Trouble with Lawyers."" -Elizabeth A. Greenfield, Law Library Journal ""This important book should be widely read and could lay the foundation for a significant reform agenda. Highly recommended."" -J. A. Pierceson, University of Illinois at Springfield, Choice ""Rhode's interesting book The Trouble with Lawyers represents a comprehensive account of the challenges which face the American Bar and will be of great interest to English Counsel. This is an important book at an important time for the legal profession both here and abroad so do read it carefully as it could affect your own future. Thank you Deborah for a great contribution to the continuing debate."" Phillip Taylor MBE and Elizabeth Taylor, Richmond Green Chambers ""[An] honest, well researched account of the spectre of decreasing public access to justice that is resulting, inter alia, from an unsustainably increasing number of law schools, law students, and lawyers in the United States."" -Magdalene D'Silva, The Modern Law Review"

[An] honest, well researched account of the spectre of decreasing public access to justice that is resulting, inter alia, from an unsustainably increasing number of law schools, law students, and lawyers in the United States. -Magdalene D'Silva, The Modern Law Review Rhode's interesting book The Trouble with Lawyers represents a comprehensive account of the challenges which face the American Bar and will be of great interest to English Counsel. This is an important book at an important time for the legal profession both here and abroad so do read it carefully as it could affect your own future. Thank you Deborah for a great contribution to the continuing debate. Phillip Taylor MBE and Elizabeth Taylor, Richmond Green Chambers This important book should be widely read and could lay the foundation for a significant reform agenda. Highly recommended. -J. A. Pierceson, University of Illinois at Springfield, Choice The Trouble with Lawyers is well indexed and written in a lively, engaging style. Rhode intersperses anecdotes with statements of facts in a way that makes for an inviting text. Who should read this book? Everyone contemplating becoming a lawyer, college prelaw placement advisers, law school librarians and placement officers, and anyone interested in legal ethics and the practicalities of the legal profession should read The Trouble with Lawyers. -Elizabeth A. Greenfield, Law Library Journal

Author Information

Deborah L. Rhode is the Ernest W. McFarland Professor of Law, the director of the Center on the Legal Profession, and the director of the Program in Law and Social Entrepreneurship at Stanford University. She was the founding president of the International Association of Legal Ethics, a president of the Association of American Law Schools, a chair of the American Bar Association's Commission on Women in the Profession, the founding director of Stanford's Center on Ethics, and a former trustee of Yale University. She is the nation's most frequently cited scholar on legal ethics.

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