Gender Trials: Emotional Lives in Contemporary Law Firms

by Jennifer L. Pierce

Book Overview

This engaging ethnography examines the gendered nature of today's large corporate law firms. Although increasing numbers of women have become lawyers in the past decade, Jennifer Pierce discovers that the double standards and sexist attitudes of legal bureaucracies are a continuing problem for women lawyers and paralegals.

Working as a paralegal, Pierce did ethnographic research in two law offices, and her depiction of the legal world is quite...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520201086
• ISBN13: 9780520201088
• Release Date: February 1996
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 276 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

This is a valuable resource for any woman in C.J.

GENDER TRIALS offers secretaries, paralegals, and lawyers a new "take" on relationships in the courtroom, the office, and the break room. Pierce's use of specific examples and her having been a paralegal herself provide good context for theoretical discussions--hers and ours. This is a must-read for all new female lawyers!