Cheaper by the Hour - Temporary Lawyers and the Deprofessionalization of the Law

Informationen zum Autor Robert A. Brooks is Associate Professor and Chair in the Department of Criminal Justice at Worcester State University in Massachusetts. Klappentext How attorneys' work is deprofessionalized, downgraded, and controlled through part-time and temporary assignments Zusammenfassung How attorneys' work is deprofessionalized! downgraded! and controlled through part-time and temporary assignments Inhaltsverzeichnis ContentsPreface 1. Degraded and Insecure: The “New” Workforce 2. “Basically Interchangeable”: The Creation of the Temporary Lawyer 3. Life on the Concourse Level: Doing Document Review 4. Box Shopping in “Nike Town”: Struggles over Work 5. “Keeping Count of Every Freakin’ Minute”: Struggles over Time 6. “A Glorified Data Entry Person”: Struggles over Identity 7. “I Would Rather Grow in India”: The Emerging Legal Underclass Appendix A: Document Review Project Summary Appendix B: The Questionnaire Appendix C: The Attorneys References Index

Product details

• Authors: Robert A Brooks, Robert A. Brooks
• Publisher: Temple University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 04.03.2011
• EAN: 9781439902851
• ISBN: 978-1-4399-0285-1
• No. of pages: 256
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law