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Why Lawyers Behave As They Do (New Perspectives on Law, Culture, and Society)
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Why Lawyers Behave As They Do (New Perspectives on Law, Culture, and Society)Over the past five years, the American Bar Association and legal educators themselves have been expanding the discussion of professional responsibility. Traditionalists state that lawyers must maximize the gain for their client regardless of whether that means turning a blind eye to behavior or facts which may serve justice... More
Lowering the Bar: Lawyer Jokes and Legal Culture
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Lowering the Bar: Lawyer Jokes and Legal CultureWhat do you call 600 lawyers at the bottom of the sea? Marc Galanter calls it an opportunity to investigate the meanings of a rich and time-honored genre of American humor: lawyer jokes. Lowering the Bar analyzes hundreds of jokes from Mark Twain classics to contemporary anecdotes about Dan Quayle, Johnnie Cochran, and Kenneth Starr. Drawing on... More