Foreward: Reintroducing a Classic Study of the Legal Profession

Gallagher, William  T.

doi:10.2139/ssrn.1887289

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Foreward: Reintroducing a Classic Study of the Legal Profession

William T. Gallagher

Golden Gate University School of Law

July 16, 2011

Abstract:
This Foreward introduces the re-issue (in print and ebook formats) of Jerome E. Carlin, Lawyers on Their Own (Quid Pro Books, Classics of Law & Society Series, 2011). The Foreward highlights the main contributions of Carlin's classic empirical study of urban solo-practice lawyers and identifies some of the contemporary scholarship on the legal profession that Carlin's book has influenced.

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Keywords: Legal profession, lawyers, legal ethics, empirical social science

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Date posted: July 19, 2011

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Gallagher, William T., Foreward: Reintroducing a Classic Study of the Legal Profession (July 16, 2011). Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1887289 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1887289

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