The Legal Profession in the Progressive Era: Localism and Legal Education in the Sixth Circuit States, 1890-1925

Abstract

In this article, Mr. Steiner examines American legal professionalization in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. He con­siders the effect which the conviviality engendered by the itinerant Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals had on the legal profession of that time. Mr. Steiner also discusses the influence which municipal law schools in cities such as Louisville, Toledo, and Akron had on Ameri­can legal culture