Offering a guided tour through the maze of the late-twentieth-century legal world, in which even lawyers themselves can lose their bearings, Glendon depicts the legal ...

Examines the workings of the legal profession, discusses the duties of judges, and offers advice on dealing with a lawyer

generation, however, this ideal has failed, undermining the identity of lawyers as a group and making it unclear to those in the profession what it means for them personally to ...

Defines the crisis of the legal profession as a spiritual one rather than an ethical one, and urges lawyers to rethink their careers in terms of a vocation in the context of ...

Explains the historical background of American law, discussing how English common law developed out of Roman law and demonstrating how it became the basis for the American ...

"A scathing indictment of how law is taught, practiced, and administered in this country....One of the best books ever written on the law."-Denver Post.

Each year the volumes of laws, rules and regulations effected by lawmakers grow thicker and more intrusive. Lawsuits continue to skyrocket as people replace discourse with ...

A troubling portrait of the culture of a top law school.