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The 1988 Vanderbilt Law Review Symposium The Modern Practice Of Law: Assessing Change, William E. Pilsk
The 1988 Vanderbilt Law Review Symposium The Modern Practice Of Law: Assessing Change, William E. Pilsk
Vanderbilt Law Review
The legal profession has long embraced an ironic contradiction:lawyers help clients respond to or create change, yet at the same time lawyers steep themselves in tradition and pride themselves on professional stability. Thus we have the image of the conservative, pedigreed attorney, clad in dark wool, who helps his client accomplish new and daring objectives, but who generally resists changes in his or her relationship with the client. For many years this image has served as the ideal for the legal profession, and rules and standards evolved to preserve that ideal.For generations the legal profession has adhered to its traditions …