Lives of Lawyers Lives of Lawyers Journeys in the

by Michael J. Kelly

Book Overview

America has long enjoyed a love/hate relationship with its attorneys; jokes equating lawyers with vermin abound at the same time that our love of litigation is reflected in a doubling of the ranks of lawyers since the 1960s. Though we often see the lawyer as a crusading lone wolf of justice, the illuminating Lives of Lawyers demonstrates that the integrity of individual lawyers is fundamentally influenced by the nature of the legal organizations that...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0472083856
• ISBN13: 9780472083855
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Brilliant overview of organizations at work

We spend our lives in organizations, but how often do we have a chance to think about them clearly? Kelly sets a standard for thinking about a profession that everyone finds fascinating.This book is to non-fiction what Grisham's are to fiction: Kelly brings the practice of law to life. The book combines thorough, long-term research with an engaging style. Kelly analyzes several different types of law practices: their histories and likely futures. Through him we meet the lawyers, but more importantly, we meet the practice of law.