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Lawyers, Counselors, And Counselors At Law, Thomas L. Shaffer

Journal Articles

Most lawyers often act as counselors. Prof. Harrop Freeman's survey, Counseling in the United States (1967), suggests that some lawyers spend as much as 80 per cent of their professional time in what they classify as counseling-talking with clients on subject matters that do not result in documents, lawsuits, or negotiations with third persons. The average lawyer spends about a third of his time in counseling. As the nature of the profession changes under various no, fault reforms in traditional fields of litigation, lawyers of the 1980s probably will spend even more of their professional time in counseling. This professional …