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<p><p>two Thousand Years Ago, Seneca Described Advocates Not As Seekers Of Truth But As Accessories To Injustice, Smothered By Their Prosperity. This Unflattering Assessment Has Only Worsened Over Time. The Vast Majority Of Americans Now Perceive Lawyers As Arrogant, Unaffordable Hired Guns Whose Ethical Practices Rank Just Slightly Above Those Of Used Car Salesmen. <br> In This Penetrating New Book, Deborah L. Rhode Goes Beyond The Commonplace Attacks On Lawyers To Provide The First Systematic Study Of The Structural Problems Confronting The Legal Profession. A Past President Of The Association Of American Law Schools And Senior Counsel For The House Judiciary Committee During Clinton's Impeachment Proceedings, Rhode Brings An Insider's Knowledge To The Labyrinthine Complexities Of How The Law Works, Or Fails To Work, For Most Americans And Often For Lawyers Themselves. She Sheds Much Light On Problems With The Adversary System, The Commercialization Of Practice, Bar Disciplinary Processes, Race And Gender Bias, And Legal Education. She Argues Convincingly That The Bar's Current Self-regulation Must Be Replaced By Oversight Structures That Would Put The Public's Interests Above Th

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Author

Deborah L. Rhode

Publisher

Oxford University Press, Incorporated

Published

2003

Language

EN

ISBN

9781280704130

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Law