The Betrayed Profession: Lawyering at the End of the Twentieth Century - Brossura

Linowitz, Sol M.; Mayer, Martin

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ISBN 10: 080185329X ISBN 13: 9780801853296

Casa editrice: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, 1996

Riassunto

This is the first searching examination of the troubled legal profession to be written by one of the nation's leading lawyers, and in it Sol Linowitz offers guidelines to a renewed professionalism among attorneys. The Betrayed Profession criticizes not the mouthpieces and the ambulance chasers that are the usual targets of public criticism, but the leaders of the bar - the New York, Los Angles, Chicago, and Washington, D.C., firms that have created a "legal services industry" and turned a public calling into an increasingly narrowed business. Linowitz shows that many lawyers have lost their connection to the tradition that theirs is a public profession - that the lawyer's responsibility is not simply to the client, or to the highest fee obtainable, but to the court. Today, the bar association has become a trade union for lawyers, and the public is the loser. This book is an urgent call to action that neither the legal profession nor the public it is meant to serve can afford to ignore.

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Recensione:

"The Betrayed Profession is superb. Few are the authentic voices of rectitude in the land any longer, but here is one, and it rings clear and true." -- David McCullough

L'autore:

Sol M. Linowitz, ambassador to the Organization of American States under Presidents Johnson and Nixon, negotiated the Panama Canal Treaties under President Carter. He was also President Carter's representative to the Middle East peace talks. Until 1994, he practiced law in Washington, D.C. Martin Mayer is the author of many books, including Nightmare on Wall Street, The Greatest-Ever Bank Robbery, and The Bankers. He lives in Washington, D.C.

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• Editore: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1996
• ISBN 10: 080185329X
• ISBN 13: 9780801853296
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 273