The Vanishing American Lawyer
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| Rating | : | 4.99 (845 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0199737738 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 264 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-12-17 |
| Language | : | English |
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He served as Reporter for the American Bar Association Commission on Professionalism, as one of three Reporters for the American Law Institute's "Restatement of the Law (Third): The Law Governing Lawyers," and as one of three Reporters for the American Bar Association's Ethics 2000 Commission to revise the ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct.. He has served as Dean at the Emory University School of Law and on the faculties of the University of Illinois and Brigham Young University. About the AuthorThomas D. In 1990, he served as President of the Association of American Law Schools. Morgan has been the Oppenheim Professor of Antitrust and Trade Regulation Law at The George Washington University Law School since 1989. Professor Morgan has taught and written about the legal profession for over 35 y
super sloth said A modest contribution to a very crowed field. Law is probably the most studied profession in American sociology, and for good reason: despite widespread concern about an overproduction of lawyers, most personal legal needs remain unmet for the majority of Americans. Part of the reason for the flurry of scholarship on law is that practitioners, like Morgan, have taken an active interest in studying themselves - possibly, I suspect, due to the easy opportunities for publishing in the ever-expanding pages of American law reviews and legal publishing outlets. Consequently, it is very difficult to come up wi
Over 4,000 lawyers lost their positions at major American law firms in 2008 and 2009. While American lawyers have been hesitant to change the ways they can improve upon meeting client needs, lawyers in other countries, notably Great Britain and Australia, have been better at adapting. In The Vanishing American Lawyer, Professor Thomas Morgan discusses the legal profession and the need for both law students and lawyers to adapt to the needs and expectations of clients in the future. Professor Morgan warns that lawyers must adapt to new client needs and expectations. Law schools must also recognize the world their students will face and prepare them to operate successfully within it. Clients will need advisors who are more specialized than many lawyers are today and who have more expertise in non-legal issues. Many of today's lawyers do not have a special ability to provide such services. The term "professional" should be applied to individuals who deserve praise for
In 1990, he served as President of the Association of American Law Schools. Professor Morgan has taught and written about the legal profession for over 35 years and is co-author of the widely-used law school casebook "Problems and Materials on Professional Responsibility" (10th Edition 2008). Morgan has been the Oppenheim Professor of