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The Lawyer Bubble: A Profession In Crisis, By Stephen J. Harper (Book Review), Michael S. Ariens Jan 2013

The Lawyer Bubble: A Profession In Crisis, By Stephen J. Harper (Book Review), Michael S. Ariens

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Stephen J. Harper’s The Lawyer Bubble: A Profession in Crisis, is the latest iteration of the “institutional failure” or “business disaster” story. A number of such books were published around 1990, and have been quite popular since then, for businesses (such as Enron and Tyco) keep failing in such spectacular fashion. The Great Recession that began in December 2007 led to another round of business disaster books, and like their forebears these books make a hard sell for the claim that the disaster was of a titanic nature. And where the business disaster book is found, the legal disaster book …