American Law Firms

Author : Randall Kiser
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Law firms
ISBN : 1641053852

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American Law Firms by Randall Kiser Pdf

Author : Marc Galanter,Thomas Palay
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1994-01-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0226278786

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Tournament of Lawyers by Marc Galanter,Thomas Palay Pdf

Tournament of Lawyers traces in detail the rise of one hundred of the nation's top firms in order to diagnose the health of the business of American law. Galanter and Palay demonstrate that much of the large firm's organizational success stems from its ability to blend the talents of experienced partners with those of energetic junior lawyers driven by a powerful incentive—the race to win "the promotion-to-partner tournament." This calmly reasoned study reveals, however, that the very causes of the spiraling growth of the large law firm may lead to its undoing. "Galanter and Palay pose questions and offer some answers which are certain to change the way big firm practice is regarded. To describe their work as challenging is something of an understatement: they at times delight, stimulate, frustrate and even depress the reader, but they never disappoint. Tournament of Lawyers is essential to the understanding of the business of the big law firms."—Jean and Colin Fergus, New York Law Journal

Author : Brian Dalton
Publisher : Vault Inc.
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2007-05-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781581315004

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Vault Guide to the Top New York Law Firms by Brian Dalton Pdf

New York is the center of the legal universe for what is known as BIG law. Vault, the authority on legal employment and publisher of the definitive Guide to the Top 100 Firms, brings lawyers and law students inside information on firm culture and compensation at more than 50 firms with major offices in the Big Apple. Based on interviews and surveys of actual attorneys at each firm. Based on surveys of thousands of lawyers, it provides in-depth coverage of prestige, compensation, perks, corporate culture, and other legal lifestyle issues.

Author : Richard L. Abel
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 423 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Lawyers
ISBN : 9780195072631

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American Lawyers by Richard L. Abel Pdf

This comprehensive picture of the contemporary American legal profession traces its development over the last hundred years. Abel examines a variety of topics including the nature and effect of entry barriers, the rise and fall of restrictive practices, efforts to create demand for lawyers' services, self-regulation, the income and status of lawyers, the growth of public and private employment, the displacement of solo and small firms, and the allocation of lawyers to roles.

Author : Robert L. Nelson,David M. Trubek,Rayman L. Solomon
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Lawyers
ISBN : 0801497108

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Lawyers' Ideals/lawyers' Practices by Robert L. Nelson,David M. Trubek,Rayman L. Solomon Pdf

"This collection of articles is an effort to create a greater understanding of the empirical issues that lie behind the debate over whether in the practice of law the ideals of professionalism have been replaced by the demands of commercialism. This book is the most systematic attempt so far to examine what professionalism means in the various arenas of legal practice in the United States. It also seeks to advance the theoretical interpretations that lie at the heart of the scholarship on professionalism and establish a framework for analyzing the issues that is more grounded than previous idealist accounts, yet retains some of the ideas of contingency and changeability that structualist accounts have ignored"--Preface.

Author : Manuel Gómez,Rogelio Pérez-Perdomo
Publisher : Springer
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2017-11-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783319654034

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Big Law in Latin America and Spain by Manuel Gómez,Rogelio Pérez-Perdomo Pdf

This book, part of the Stanford Law School research project on the future of the legal profession, thoroughly examines the future of “big law,” defined as the large and mid-size multiservice highly specialized law firms that provide sophisticated, complex and generally costly legal work to multinationals, large and mid-size domestic corporations, and other business clients. By systematically gathering, assessing, and analyzing the best available quantitative and qualitative data on the first tier of the corporate legal services market of Latin America and Spain, and interviewing a broadly representative sample of corporate legal officers, law firm partners, and other stakeholders in each of the countries covered, this book provides a nuanced perspective on changes in “big law” during the last two decades until the present. It also explores the factors that are driving these changes, and the implications for the future of legal profession, legal education and its relationship with the corporate sector and society in general.

Author : American Lawyers Association
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2023-07-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1020865563

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The American Law List by American Lawyers Association Pdf

This is a comprehensive directory of American law firms and attorneys, offering valuable insights into the legal profession in the United States. It is an essential reference work for lawyers, law students, and anyone interested in the American legal system. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Jordan Furlong
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Attorney and client
ISBN : 0995348804

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Law is a Buyer's Market by Jordan Furlong Pdf

Law has become a buyer's market, and it's never going back. Re-envisioning the purpose of law firms and the role of lawyers, Jordan Furlong has designed a transformative client-first law firm that rethinks the business model, culture, service, competitiveness, growth strategies, diversity, and leadership of modern legal enterprises.

Author : Los Angeles Richard L. Abel Professor of Law University of California
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1989-11-30
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780198021858

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American Lawyers by Los Angeles Richard L. Abel Professor of Law University of California Pdf

This detailed portrait of American lawyers traces their efforts to professionalize during the last 100 years by erecting barriers to control the quality and quantity of entrants. Abel describes the rise and fall of restrictive practices that dampened competition among lawyers and with outsiders. He shows how lawyers simultaneously sought to increase access to justice while stimulating demand for services, and their efforts to regulate themselves while forestalling external control. Data on income and status illuminate the success of these efforts. Charting the dramatic transformation of the profession over the last two decades, Abel documents the growing number and importance of lawyers employed outside private practice (in business and government, as judges and teachers) and the displacement of corporate clients they serve. Noting the complexity of matching ever more diverse entrants with more stratified roles, he depicts the mechanism that law schools and employers have created to allocate graduates to jobs and socialize them within their new environments. Abel concludes with critical reflections on possible and desirable futures for the legal profession.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Catalyst
Page : 73 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Minority women in the professions
ISBN : 9780895842947

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Women of Color in U.S. Law Firms (Women of Color in Professional Services Series) by Anonim Pdf

Author : Christopher P. Banks
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2023-11-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000996371

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The American Legal Profession by Christopher P. Banks Pdf

This book is a tight and fresh analysis of the American legal profession and its significance to society and its citizens. The book’s primary objective is to expose, and correct, the principal misconceptions— myths— surrounding prelaw study, law school admission, law school, and the American legal profession itself. These issues are vitally important to prelaw advisors and instructors in light of the difficult problems caused by the Great Recessions of 2008 and 2020– 2021 and the disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Aimed equally at prelaw advisors and potential law students, this book can be used as a supplement in the interdisciplinary undergraduate law-related instructional market, including courses that cater to majors/minors in political science and criminal justice in particular. It can also be used in career counselling, internships, and the extensive paralegal program market. New to the Second Edition • Expanded coverage to include paralegal and legal assistant training. • New material on women and minority law students who are transforming law schools and the profession. • Explores challenges to the legal profession posed by economic recession, COVID-19, high tuition rates, exploding student loan debt, internet technological advances, and global competitive pressures, including legal outsourcing and DIY legal services. • Updated data and tables along with all underlying research.

Author : James B. Stewart
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105039401968

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The Partners by James B. Stewart Pdf

Introduces the elite corporate law firms and some of their unique contributions to economic, social, and political developments in recent years.

Author : James E. Moliterno
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2013-03-28
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780199399147

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The American Legal Profession in Crisis by James E. Moliterno Pdf

Throughout history, the American legal profession has tried to hold tight to its identity by retreating into its traditional values and structure during times of self-perceived crisis. The American Legal Profession in Crisis: Resistance and Responses to Change analyzes the efforts of the legal profession to protect and maintain the status quo even as the world around it changed. Author James E. Moliterno, consistently argues that the profession has resisted societal change and sought to ban or discourage new models of legal representation created by such change. In response to every crisis, lawyers asked: "How can we stay even more 'the same' than we already are?" The legal profession has been an unwilling, capitulating entity to any transformation wrought by the overwhelming tide of change. Only when the shifts in society, culture, technology, economics, and globalization could no longer be denied did the legal profession make any proactive changes that would preserve status quo. This book demonstrates how the profession has held to its anachronistic ways at key crisis points in US history: Watergate, communist infiltration, waves of immigration, the explosion of litigation, and the current economic crisis that blends with dramatic changes in technology, communications, and globalization. Ultimately, Moliterno urges the profession to look outward and forward to find in society and culture the causes and connections with these periodic crises. Doing so would allow the profession to grow with the society, solve problems with, rather than against, the flow of society, and be more attuned to the very society the profession claims to serve. This paperback version includes a commentary on the prevailing crisis in legal education.

Author : Vault Reports (Firm)
Publisher : Vault.com
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Law
ISBN : STANFORD:36105061971920

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Vault Reports Guide to America's Top 50 Law Firms by Vault Reports (Firm) Pdf

Wondering which firms are tops in prestige? Need to go beyond the glossy recruiting brochures? Vault Reports surveyed over a thousand attorneys at the finest law firms in the country to bring you "The Vault Reports Guide to America's Top 50 Law Firms". We asked more than 1,000 lawyers to tell us about whay they thought about other firms-- and what their own workplace was really like. This guide contains the most up-to-date, accurate information on law firms available for 1998-99! Inside, you'll find our exclusive prestige rankings, and insider information on pay, perks, working hours, selectivity, firm culture, interviews, dress code, summer programs, diversity, and much more-- all directly from lawyers at the firms. Do you have any chance at being promoted to partner? When do you get your own office? Which departments are hot, and which are not? What's the hiring process like? You'll find the answers in "The Vault Reports Guide to America's Top 50 Law Firms".

Author : George S Grossman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2018-04-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429975455

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The Spirit Of American Law by George S Grossman Pdf

Intended for the general public, the readings in this collection explore the roots of American law from pre-history to ancient Greece and Rome and the common law of England. America's legal development is traced from the drafting of the Constitution to the Rehnquist Court. Themes along the way include the ?Golden Age? of the early nineteenth century, when American law took on its distinctive character, the impact of slavery and the Civil War, and the struggles of the Progressives to regulate the nation's industrialized economy between the post-Civil War era and the New Deal. A reading on the Nuremberg Trials introduces the theme of international human rights, while post-war readings trace the nation's legal confrontations over civil liberties, civil rights, the rights of women, the protection of the environment, and legal protections for those accused of crimes. Dramatic highlights include the Sacco-Vanzetti case, the internment of Japanese-Americans during the Second World War, the trial of the ?Chicago Eight? during the Vietnam War, and the Watergate scandal. Leading personalities include Sirs Edward Coke and William Blackstone in England, Chief Justices John Marshall and Earl Warren, Justices Stephen J. Field, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., Louis D. Brandeis, and Felix Frankfurter, and Judge Learned Hand. Readings on the future of American law explore the impact of alternative dispute resolution, science and technology, globalization, and space exploration, as well as trends in the legal profession and in legal philosophy.