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Lawyers, the State and the Market: Professionalism Revisited (Macmillan Business)
Gerard Hanlon
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Description for Lawyers, the State and the Market: Professionalism Revisited (Macmillan Business)
Hardcover. Changes in the welfare state and in the market place have forced professions to change the ways in which they perform their jobs. This book analyzes these changes in relation to the legal industry and other professions such as doctors. Num Pages: 214 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFSC; KCF; KCP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 475.
Professionalism is currently undergoing a process of radical change. Changes in the welfare state and in the market place have impacted upon professional organisations forcing them to change the ways in which they perform their jobs. This book analyses these changes in relation to the legal industry and other professions such as doctors and accountants. It argues that the shift is being driven by the powerful and informed corporate client whilst it downgrades consideration for the weaker uninformed client with many casualties as a result. It highlights how this shift has become an important political issue as the different camps ... Read more
Professionalism is currently undergoing a process of radical change. Changes in the welfare state and in the market place have impacted upon professional organisations forcing them to change the ways in which they perform their jobs. This book analyses these changes in relation to the legal industry and other professions such as doctors and accountants. It argues that the shift is being driven by the powerful and informed corporate client whilst it downgrades consideration for the weaker uninformed client with many casualties as a result. It highlights how this shift has become an important political issue as the different camps ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
Number of Pages
214
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780333722275
SKU
V9780333722275
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Ref
99-15
About Gerard Hanlon
GERARD HANLON is Lecturer in Management at the Management Centre, King's College, University of London. He is author of The Commercialisation of Accountancy (Macmillan, 1994)
Reviews for Lawyers, the State and the Market: Professionalism Revisited (Macmillan Business)
'Well laid-out, carefully constructed, and ought to be read by anyone with an interest in the profession, not least practising solicitors themselves...Hanlon's is a book witht the capacity to make one question views that are long-held but hardly thought out...[it] may have an enduring role in helping us understand the changes we will witness.' - Journal of Law and Society ... Read more