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Recasting Behavior: An Essay For Beginning Law Students, Robert H. Heidt Jan 1988

Recasting Behavior: An Essay For Beginning Law Students, Robert H. Heidt

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Law Firms And Clients As Groups: Loyalty, Rationality, And Representation, Edwin H. Greenebaum Jan 1988

Law Firms And Clients As Groups: Loyalty, Rationality, And Representation, Edwin H. Greenebaum

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The Changing Face Of American Corporate Law Practice, John Flood Jan 1988

The Changing Face Of American Corporate Law Practice, John Flood

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The professions of the 1980s are completely different from the situation in the 1930s. They are now subject to the norms of business rather than the standards of professionalism.1 It is part of the purpose of this article to show that the practice of law has become a business like any other business activity. As a result of this trans formation, the norms and standards so often identified with the professions have eroded.

In the next part of the article, I outline some of the demographic changes that have taken place in the legal profession and the reasons for them. …