The Justice Broker: Lawyers and Ordinary Litigation

by Herbert M. Kritzer

Book Overview

In law, as elsewhere, the ordinary is overshadowed in the popular and academic literature by the dramatic and sensational. While the role and behavior of lawyers in the operation of our criminal justice system has been closely scrutinized, comparatively little research has been devoted to the manner in which lawyers litigate the day-to-day civil (non-criminal) cases that comprise the vast bulk of the workload in state and federal courts. Originally...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019506142X
• ISBN13: 9780195061420
• Release Date: November 1990
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.5" x 9.6"