
Divorce Lawyers at Work
Varieties of Professionalism in Practice
Oxford University Press
Published on 18. October 2001
Book
Hardback
256 pages
978-0-19-514515-1 (ISBN)
Description
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.
Reviews / Votes
In 1995 Richard Abel and Philip Lewis concluded their overview entitled 'Lawyers in Society'... with a plea for empirical work on what lawyers actually do for their clients. Mather, McEven and Maiman have responded with scholarship, sensitivity and authority. * International Journal of Law, Policy and the Family, Vol. 16, No. 2, 2002 *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
571 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-514515-1 (9780195145151)
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Lynn Mather | Craig a. McEwen | Richard J. Maiman
Divorce Lawyers at Work
Varieties of Professionalism in Practice
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09/2001
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Lynn Mather | Craig a. McEwen | Richard J. Maiman
Divorce Lawyers at Work
Varieties of Professionalism in Practice
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Nelson A. Rockefeller Professor of GovernmentNelson A. Rockefeller Professor of Government, Dartmouth College
Daniel B. Fayerweather Professor of Political Economy and SociologyDaniel B. Fayerweather Professor of Political Economy and Sociology, Bowdoin College
Professor of Political ScienceProfessor of Political Science, University of Southern Maine