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Dichotomy No Longer? The Role Of The Private Business Sector In Educating The Future Russian Legal Professions, Philip M. Genty
Dichotomy No Longer? The Role Of The Private Business Sector In Educating The Future Russian Legal Professions, Philip M. Genty
Fordham Urban Law Journal
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Being Good Lawyers: A Relational Approach To Law Practice, Eli Wald, Russell G. Pearce
Being Good Lawyers: A Relational Approach To Law Practice, Eli Wald, Russell G. Pearce
Faculty Scholarship
In response to past generations of debates regarding whether law is a business or profession, we advance an alternative approach that rejects the dichotomies of business and profession, or hired gun and wise counselor. Instead, we propose a relational account of law practice. Unlike frameworks grounded in assumptions of atomistic individualism or communitarianism, a relational perspective recognizes that all actors, whether individuals or organizations, have separate identities yet are intrinsically inter-connected and cannot maximize their own good in isolation. Through the lens of relational self-interest, maximizing the good of the individual or business requires consideration of the good of the …