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Article: A Nation Under Lawyers: How the Crisis in the Legal Profession Is Transforming American Society.
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- Defense Counsel Journal
- Article date:
- January 1, 1996
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Essay review by William A. Wick, White & Raub, Indianapolis.
Despite enormous advances in science and medicine, the 20th century, brutalized by two world wars, the Holocaust, the Korean War, the body-count war in Vietnam, state-sponsored terrorism, drug violence and "ethnic cleansing," will surely go down in history as one that saw the tides of civilization recede, when tested by man's inhumanity to man. Small wonder then that the legal profession has not been immune to the general decline of religious convictions, moral standards and civility in American society.
The subtitle of Harvard Law Professor Mary Ann Glendon's penetrating critique of bench, bar and ...