Divorce Lawyers At Work - Varieties of Professionalism in Practice

Klappentext How do lawyers think about and make the important decisions that constitute the day-to-day practice of law? This book explores that question through an extensive empirical study of lawyers practicing divorce law in New England. The authors emphasize the importance of "collegial control" in shaping lawyers' decisions and identify a variety of "communities of practice" that serve as key agents of that control.Offering a new understanding of the nature of lawyers' work in divorce law as well as a new perspective on legal professionalism, this book is required reading for scholars, students, and practitioners. Zusammenfassung The authors look at how divorce lawyers actually work to address the question of legal professionalism in practice. Through a detailed and systematic study of legal practice at the micro level, they show how lawyers create their own controls over work through their social relationships, formal and informal norms, common knowledge, and shared values. While much of the research on legal professionalism centers on the formal standards of the bar as reflected in codes of professional responsibility, Mather et al. show how the discretionary judgments that lawyers make, and the choices they face, are actually understood in relation to norms and standards of other lawyers with whom they interact or compare themselves.

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• Authors: Richard J. Maiman, Richard J. (Professor of Political Science Maiman, Maiman Richard J., Lynn Mather, Lynn (Nelson A. Rockefeller Professor of G Mather, Lynn (Nelson A. Rockefeller Professor of Government Mather, Lynn M. Mather, Lynn Mcewen Mather, Mather Lynn, Craig A. McEwen, Craig A. (Daniel B. Fayerweather Professor of Political Economy and Sociology McEwen, McEwen Craig A.
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.09.2001
• EAN: 9780195145168
• ISBN: 978-0-19-514516-8
• No. of pages: 256
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Civil law, civil procedural law; USA, England, Wales, LAW / Legal Profession, LAW / Family Law / Divorce & Separation, LAW / Family Law / Marriage, United States of America, USA, Family Law: Marriage & Divorce, Legal profession: general, Family law: marriage, separation and divorce, Legal profession / practice of law: general