The Status of Legal Professionalism at the Close of the Twentieth Century: Chicago Lawyers and Urban Lawyers

Carroll Seron

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When Chicago Lawyers hit the academic street in 1982, it made an enormous, and well-deserved, splash. Chicago Lawyers synthesized and tran scended the findings of two seminal ethnographies on the legal profession to that point, Jerome Carlin's Lawyers on Their Own (1962) and Erwin SmigePs The Wall Street Lawyer (I960).1 The central finding of Chicago Lawyers was that solo and large-firm lawyers may be best understood as two relatively distinct occupations within a broader profession. Chicago Ixiwyers transcended the Carlin and Smigel studies by theorizing the implications of an attorney's client-base?individual or corporate?in sorting the profession

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