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Not By Numbers Alone: A New Decade For Women In The Law, Margaret H. Marshall
Not By Numbers Alone: A New Decade For Women In The Law, Margaret H. Marshall
New England Journal of Public Policy
There has been a dramatic increase in both the percentage and the numbers of women who have entered the legal profession in the last fifteen years, but women have not penetrated its higher echelons — partnerships in law firms, general counsel of corporations, and chiefs of government bureaus — in the same percentage that those advances should be reflecting. While entry-level salaries may be equal for male and female attorneys, are women in the legal world discovering the same glass ceilings and barriers to entry at these top levels of economic empowerment that their corporate counterparts have experienced? The author …
Should A Good Lawyer Do The Right Thing? David Luban On The Morality Of Adversary Representation, David Wasserman
Should A Good Lawyer Do The Right Thing? David Luban On The Morality Of Adversary Representation, David Wasserman
Maryland Law Review
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Corporate Law Practice As A Public Calling, Robert W. Gordon
Corporate Law Practice As A Public Calling, Robert W. Gordon
Maryland Law Review
No abstract provided.
Personal Agenda In Clinical Work, Edwin H. Greenebaum
Personal Agenda In Clinical Work, Edwin H. Greenebaum
Articles by Maurer Faculty
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Freedom And Constraint In Legal Ethics: Some Mid-Course Corrections To Lawyers And Justice, David Luban
Freedom And Constraint In Legal Ethics: Some Mid-Course Corrections To Lawyers And Justice, David Luban
Maryland Law Review
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The Devolution Of The Legal Profession: A Demand Side Perspective, Ronald J. Gilson
The Devolution Of The Legal Profession: A Demand Side Perspective, Ronald J. Gilson
Faculty Scholarship
Economic analysis has not played a significant role in the increasingly intense debate over the decline of professionalism among lawyers.Economists' lack of interest in the issue may be understandable. The lawyers' lament is that the legal profession is devolving into the business of law. That this concern has not captured the economists' attention may reflect only that economists do not view the label "business" as a pejorative. If becoming a business means efficiently rendering an important service in a competitive environment, then of what is there to complain?
Lawyers, more directly concerned with maintaining their professional status, would find little …