Negotiating Justice : : Progressive Lawyering, Low-Income Clients, and the Quest for Social Change / / Corey S. Shdaimah.

While many young people become lawyers for the big bucks, others are motivated by the pursuit of social justice, seeking to help people for whom legal services are financially, socially, or politically inaccessible. These progressive lawyers often bring a considerable degree of idealism to their wor...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2009]
©2009
Year of Publication:2009
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Preface
  • 1 Clients and Lawyers
  • 2 Why Talk to Clients and Lawyers?
  • 3 Working for Social Justice in an Unjust System
  • 4 Did Someone Say Autonomy?
  • 5 Collaboration
  • 6 Lawyer and Client: Face to Face
  • 7 Progressive Lawyering and the Ethic of Risk
  • Appendix A
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index
  • About the Author