Legal professions : work, structure and organization / edited by Jerry Van Hoy.

Oxford : Elsevier Science, 2001.

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Lawyers.

Lawyers -- United States.

Lawyers -- Germany.

Lawyers -- Wales.

Sociological jurisprudence.

Part One. Changes in the structure of legal professions: The changing patterns of career mobility in the legal profession : a log-linear analysis of Chicago lawyers (1975 and 1995) / Harris H Kim

The state-lawyer relationship in England and Wales / Gerard Hanlon

Mergers, mergers everywhere : constructing the global law firm in Germany / Susanne Lace

Part Two. Legal culture, professional time, and job satisfaction: The symbolic meaning of professional time / Cynthia Fuchs Epstein and Carroll Seron

Time, legal culture and legal process / Robert Dingwall, William L F Felstiner and Tom Durkin

Explaining why lawyers want to leave the practice of law / Jean E Wallace

Part Three. Lawyers and their work: We live on the edge of extinction all the time : entrepreneurs, innnovation and the plaintiffs' bar in the wake of tort reform / Stephen Daniels and Joanne Martin

Career activism by lawyers : consequences for the person, the legal profession, and social movements / Lynn C Jones

Lawyering in an age of popular politics : plea bargaining, legal practice and the structure of the Boston Bar, 1800-1860 / Mary E Vogel

Perceptions of good and bad judging : an analysis of the Illinois Judicial Development Project / Katherine Cermak and Richard Block.

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xvii, 273 p.