The Lawyer Myth

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Lawyers and the legal profession have becomescapegoats for many of the problems of ourage. In "The Lawyer Myth: A Defense of theAmerican Legal Profession, " Rennard Strickland andFrank T. Read look behind current antilawyer mediaimages to explore the historical role of lawyers as abalancing force in times of social, economic, and political change. One source of this disjunction of perception and reality, they find, is that American society has lost touch with the need for the lawyer's skill and has come to blame unrelated social problems on the legal profession. This highly personal and impassioned book is their defense of lawyers and the rule of law in the United States.