Lawyer Nation
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Lawyer Nation

The Past, Present, and Future of the American Legal Profession

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eBook - ePub

Lawyer Nation

The Past, Present, and Future of the American Legal Profession

About this book

Explores the critical role that American lawyers have played since the nation's founding and what the future holds for the profession

The American legal profession faces significant challenges: the changing nature of work in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic; calls for greater racial and gender justice; threats to democracy; the inaccessibility of legal services for the majority of Americans; the risk of obsolescence owing to the emergence of new technologies; and the disaffection many lawyers feel toward their work.

Ambitious in its scope yet straightforward in its approach, Lawyer Nation seeks to address these crises by offering a path forward for the legal profession. Ray Brescia provides concrete ideas for transforming law into a field whose services are accessible, egalitarian, and viable in the long term. Further, he addresses how the profession can improve so that the health of its practitioners is not compromised in the process. If the legal profession does not respond to its crises in an effective way, he argues, the dysfunction and unfairness plaguing the legal world will deepen. This is an unprecedented opportunity for the world of law to reimagine its future in way that honors its highest ideals: preserving the rule of law, protecting individual liberty, and addressing social inequality in all of its forms.

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Information

Publisher
NYU Press
Year
2024
eBook ISBN
9781479823697
Topic
Law
Index
Law

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. 1. A Janus-Faced Profession
  7. 2. An Index to the Character of the People
  8. 3. An Independent Bar and an Honest Judiciary
  9. 4. The Profession in Crisis and the Institutional Response
  10. 5. The Legal Profession as an Institution
  11. 6. A Public Health Crisis and the Institutions of Exclusion
  12. 7. A Serpent in the Ear of the President
  13. 8. The Access-to-Justice Crisis and the Rise of Legal Technology
  14. 9. The Purpose of the Profession
  15. Acknowledgments
  16. Notes
  17. Index
  18. About the Author