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Exploring The Origins Of America's Adversarial Legal Culture, Edward A. Purcell Jr. Jan 2017

Exploring The Origins Of America's Adversarial Legal Culture, Edward A. Purcell Jr.

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Jury Jokes And Legal Culture, Valerie P. Hans Jan 2013

Jury Jokes And Legal Culture, Valerie P. Hans

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

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The Relational Infrastructure Of Law Firm Culture And Regulation: The Exaggerated Death Of Big Law, Russell G. Pearce, Eli Wald Jan 2013

The Relational Infrastructure Of Law Firm Culture And Regulation: The Exaggerated Death Of Big Law, Russell G. Pearce, Eli Wald

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In recent years, the ethical infrastructure and culture of law firms has come under attack from commentators, such as Larry Ribstein, Bill Henderson, and Marc Galanter, who, in related ways, predict "the death of Big Law." They assert that the individualistic ethical infrastructure and culture of large firms undermine their commitment to professional values and will result in their failure to prepare for, and to survive, long term economic and technological trends. We identify a contradiction at the heart of this analysis. While these critiques correctly identify the individualistic flaws of law firm culture, they share the same individualistic assumptions. …


Lawyering In Place: Topographies Of Practice And Pleadings In Pittsburgh, 1775-1895, Bernard J. Hibbitts Jan 2012

Lawyering In Place: Topographies Of Practice And Pleadings In Pittsburgh, 1775-1895, Bernard J. Hibbitts

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Even in the digital age, lawyering is always located. Lawyers live and work in physical space, and they deal with other lawyers and with clients who also have at least some measure of physicalized existence. Distracted and ofttimes overwhelmed by written records, legal historians have traditionally paid little attention to the physical environment of lawyering, but under the influence of contemporary cultural factors this is beginning to change. Indeed, in light of recent works on American, English and even ancient law it may be time to recognize the birth pangs of a new interdisciplinary field that we might label “legal …


Law-The Last Of The Universal Disciplines, Soia Mentschikoff, Irwin P. Stotzky Jan 1986

Law-The Last Of The Universal Disciplines, Soia Mentschikoff, Irwin P. Stotzky

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