Doing justice?: towards a new understanding of the lawyer-client relationship

Jacobs, David (2010). Doing justice?: towards a new understanding of the lawyer-client relationship. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

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Abstract

INTRODUCTION
STYLES AND ATTITUDES: A DICHOTOMY IN APPROACH
This thesis developed from an undergraduate dissertation examining factors affecting different approaches to the interactions between lawyers and their clients. Many of the understandings generated in that endeavour will now be explored in greater depth as this thesis seeks to build upon and refine some of the issues that have preoccupied commentators from many academic disciplines for over half a century. The legal profession has received significant academic attention from many different quarters for many years. Authors have approached the field motivated by myriad concerns and from radically different perspectives, and have often presented strikingly divergent theories and findings. To date, academic interest in lawyering and the legal profession continues to develop, and shows no sign of diminishing. Indeed any brief glance through the relevant journals reveals the plethora of newly formulated endeavours and ideas that testify to the continuing expansion of the field. The different foci of this literature have also developed significantly over the last century. As with any discipline, current understandings are surpassed as the older preoccupations give way to the new. These novel enterprises, no doubt anchored in the harbour of current knowledge, set sail in fresh directions for uncharted territory. And this is certainly so in respect of our knowledge of the lawyer. Many of the concerns of the past have lost their relevance or their urgency as society progresses through the modem and the post modem.

Type of Work:

Thesis (Doctorates > Ph.D.)

Award Type:

Doctorates > Ph.D.

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