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The French Legal Profession: A Prisoner Of Its Glorious Past?, Tang Thi Thanh Trai Le
The French Legal Profession: A Prisoner Of Its Glorious Past?, Tang Thi Thanh Trai Le
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In 1978 a French television poll queried 982 viewers as to their images of the French lawyer (avocat). Of those polled, less than five percent held a positive view of the avocat. Eighteen percent of the 940 persons who expressed a negative view of the avocat simply conveyed this impression in general terms, but the remainder were more precise. Forty-eight percent of the respondents felt that the avocat was a "money sucker"; fourteen percent saw him as a man without conscience; and another fourteen percent believed that he acted with impunity within his bar. Four percent considered the bar to …
A Judicial Clerkship 24 Years After Graduation: Or, How I Spent My Spring Sabbatical, Joseph P. Bauer
A Judicial Clerkship 24 Years After Graduation: Or, How I Spent My Spring Sabbatical, Joseph P. Bauer
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The career path of many law professors includes a judicial clerkship - typically, right after graduation. Almost all law professors have extolled the clerkship experience and have written letters of recommendation for students applying for those positions. While I fall into the latter category, I did not fall into the former - at least not until my recent sabbatical.
When I was a law student, I gave no thought to a clerkship, and none of my teachers encouraged me to pursue that route. (In fact, graduating in 1969 at the height of the Vietnam War, I thought mainly - like …
Professionalism And Community: A Response To Terrell And Wildman, Robert E. Rodes
Professionalism And Community: A Response To Terrell And Wildman, Robert E. Rodes
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Professor Terrell and Mr. Wildman have earned our gratitude with their sober, thoughtful, lucid, and honest contribution to the ongoing discussion of professionalism. They have examined the problems with a sharp and critical eye, placed them in a social and historical perspective, and offered modest but genuinely helpful suggestions for solving them. They are quite free from the obfuscation and bombast that often appear when people address this difficult subject. Best of all, they have resisted the temptation to draw an invidious distinction between a profession and a business - a distinction that is often presented in ways that no …