The Lawyer Myth: A Defense of the American Legal Profession

by Rennard Strickland and Frank T. Read

Book Overview

Lawyers and the legal profession have become scapegoats for many of the problems of our age. In The Lawyer Myth: A Defense of the American Legal Profession, Rennard Strickland and Frank T. Read look behind current antilawyer media images to explore the historical role of lawyers as a balancing force in times of social, economic, and political change. One source of this disjunction of perception and reality, they find, is that American society...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804011117
• ISBN13: 9780804011112
• Release Date: March 2008
• Publisher: Swallow Press
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 8.6"

Customer Reviews

The Lawyer Myth

I am a second year law student who thoroughly enjoyed this book. It should be an inspiration to anyone who cares about justice, and an anaesthetic to critics of the United States' legal system. Enlightening, humorous and thoughtful.