Abstract
The Trouble With Lawyers by Deborah Rhode and Glass Half Full: The Decline and Rebirth of the Legal Profession by Benjamin Barton are two honest, well researched accounts of the spectre of decreasing public access to justice that is resulting, inter alia, from an unsustainably increasing number of law schools, law students, and lawyers in the United States. Both books follow other respected works on these issues, including B. Tamanaha, Failing Law Schools (CUP, 2012); S. Harper, The Lawyer Bubble: A Profession in Crisis (Basic Books, 2013); J. Moliterno, The American Legal Profession in Crisis: Resistance and Responses to Change (OUP, 2013). Rhode and Barton have each been fearlessly frank about the ethical challenges that they, their law faculty colleagues, and the US legal profession face. Both authors also put into context the threat of technology disruption to legal services (which confronts all professions, not just lawyers: R. Susskind and D. Susskind, The Future of the Professions (OUP, 2015)) by clarifying that the way technology is changing some legal services is by potentially replacing lawyers entirely.
CONTINUE READING FULL ARTICLE| Published | March 2016 |
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| Frequency | Bi-Monthly |
| Volume | 79 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Print ISSN | 0026-7961 |
| Online ISSN | 1468-2230 |
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