The Lawyer's Myth: Reviving Ideals in the Legal Profession Hardcover - 2002
by Walter Bennett
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To begin our process of self-discovery, let us peer into the dim and timeless pasts of our ancestors as they grope for the answers to the eternal questions: Where do we come from?
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Lawyers today are in a moral crisis. The popular perception of the lawyer, both within the legal community and beyond, is no longer the Abe Lincoln of American mythology, but is often a greedy, cynical manipulator of access and power. In The Lawyer's Myth, Walter Bennett goes beyond the caricatures to explore the deeper causes of why lawyers are losing their profession and what it will take to bring it back. Bennett draws on his experience as a lawyer, judge, and law teacher, as well as upon oral histories of lawyers and judges, in his exploration of how and why the legal profession has lost its ennobling mythology. Effectively using examples from history, philosophy, psychology, mythology, and literature, Bennett shows that the loss of professionalism is more than merely the emergence of win-at-all-cost strategies and a scramble for personal wealth. It is something more profound-a loss of professional community and soul. Bennett identifies the old heroic myths of American lawyers and shows how they informed the values of professionalism through the middle of the last century. He shows why, in our more diverse society, those myths are inadequate guides for today's lawyers. And he also discusses the profession's agony over its trickster image and demonstrates how that archetype is not only a psychological reality, but a necessary component of a vibrant professional mythology for lawyers. At the heart of Bennett's eloquently written book is a call to reinvigorate the legal professional community. To do this, lawyers must revive their creative capacities and develop a meaningful, professional mythology-one based on a deeper understanding of professionalism and a broader, more compassionate ideal of justice.
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- Title The Lawyer's Myth: Reviving Ideals in the Legal Profession
- Author Walter Bennett
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 251
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.
- Date January 15, 2002
- Features Dust Cover, Index, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780226042558 / 0226042553
- Weight 1.16 lbs (0.53 kg)
- Dimensions 9.34 x 6.34 x 0.82 in (23.72 x 16.10 x 2.08 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Practice of law - United States, Lawyers - United States
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2001002127
- Dewey Decimal Code 340.023
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- Booklist, 12/01/2001, Page 611
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