Liberated Lawyering: How Lawyers Change the World

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In a practical, no-nonsense guide to changing the way the legal profession creates lawyers in order to address the tens of millions with unmet legal needs, Amato explains why lawyers must reform themselves from serving corporate America to serving the 99 percent.' She shares a concise nuts-and-bolts self-help manual for lawyers and law students and describes how law schools and the profession can create more public interest jobs to assist those with no access to counsel.'

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"Amato has had a busy career in twenty years as a public interest lawyer working on some of the most dramatic and important issues of our time." Rick Perlstein, The Nation

Author Bio

An award-winning public interest lawyer, Theresa Amato is the executive director of Citizen Works and was named by "American Lawyer" one of forty-five lawyers under forty-five whose work is changing lives. She is the author of "Grand Illusion" (The New Press), on the importance of third parties in politics, and lives with her family in Oak Park, Illinois.