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This is the first book that directly addresses the cultural history of the legal profession.

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This is the first book that directly addresses the cultural history of the legal profession.

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Retired Justice Macklin Fleming argues that in its quest for money, the legal profession has lost sight of its true tasks and responsibilities, with the result that the profession is rife with client dissatisfaction, public distrust, and individual lawyer discontent.

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After tracing the history of the large corporate law firm and its dominance within the profession, he shows how cost-effectiveness within large firms has declined while at the same time what he calls the magic of the emperor's new clothes has suspended the law of supply and demand.

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The essays in this text deal with aspects of British legal learning. It traces the tradition of learning dating back to the Middle Ages and how the inns of court provided the equivalent of a legal university.

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This book explores the culture of legal academia, the professional identities of law teachers and the issues facing the discipline of law.

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Now, at last, there is a comprehensive and readable guide designed to help librarians, scholars, and the general public quickly find the legal information they need. It explains why legal information exists in certain formats, and describes how to get the most out of the major legal reference tools.

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Now, at last, there is a comprehensive and readable guide designed to help librarians, scholars, and the general public quickly find the legal information they need. It explains why legal information exists in certain formats, and describes how to get the most out of the major legal reference tools.

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This thoughtful analysis presents a new approach to the issue of legal professional privilege.

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Brings together economists and experts in liability law and the insurance industry to formulate sound public policy. Led by Robert Litan and Clifford Winston, the contributors describe the major changes that have contributed to the insurance crunch and set forth a methodological framework for evaluating the debate over the current liability system.

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This book examines the ways in which common law countries such as England, Australia, and Canada have modernized their regulatory environments for legal services. It critiques stagnant regulation practices in the US and offers a blueprint for effective regulation of legal services to ensure affordable and accessible civil justice for all citizens.

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This work argues that the failure of the US judicial system is judges who are too lenient, who fail to protect children and battered spouses, and allow the abuse of the civil justice system, especially in liability cases that ruin businesses and deprive the public of valuable goods and services.

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This book analyses how legal professions have confronted the internal and external political, economic and social upheavals of the past 20 years.

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"Where do our rights come from Does "natural law" really exist outside of what is written in constitutions and legal statutes If so, why are rights not the same everywhere and in all eras On the oth"

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Based on interviews with lawyers and their clients, this book considers how conflicts of interest are handled within law firms.

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Penny Darbyshire was given unprecedented access to judges in the whole range of courts from magistrates' courts to the Supreme Court, and spent seven years accompanying them in their daily work. This resulting account is without doubt the most revealing and compelling picture of the modern judiciary in England and Wales ever seen.

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A study of the practice of judicial summing-up to juries, and of the language of persuasion and rhetoric in the English criminal process. This book examines those statements normally occurring in criminal courts, but also in the High Court, in defamation trials and in "civil liberty" torts.

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