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Chicago Lawyers, Revised Edition

Chicago Lawyers, Revised Edition

The Social Structure of the Bar

by John Heinz and Edward Laumann

Imprint: Northwestern University Press

260 Pages, 6.00 x 9.00 in

Paperback
9780810111899
Published: October 1994

$27.95

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The legal profession is stratified primarily by the character of the clients served, not by the type of legal service rendered, as John P. Heinz and Edward O. Laumann convincingly demonstrate. In their classic study of the Chicago bar, the authors draw on interviews with nearly 800 lawyers to show that the profession is divided into two distinct hemispheres–corporate and individual–and that this dichotomy is reflected in the distribution of prestige among lawyers.

List of Tables
List of Figures
Preface to the Revised Edition
Preface to the Original Edition

Chapter 1. The Scope and Nature of the Study
The Data Set
Some Characteristics of Chicago Lawyers
The Profession: Context
Is Chicago Typical?

Chapter 2. The Organization of Lawyers' Work
The Fields of Law
Distribution of Lawyers' Effort Among the Fields of Law
Level of Specialization in the Fields of Law
Patterns of Co-Practice Among Fields of Law
Conclusion

Chapter 3. Social Differentiation within the Profession
The Degree of Differentiation
The Dimensions of Differentiation
Conclusions

Chapter 4. Honor among Lawyers
The Prestige Order
The Structure of Prestige
Correlates of Prestige: Imputed Characteristics
Correlates of Prestige: Practitioner Characteristics
Multivariate Models of Prestige
Conclusions

Chapter 5. The Constituencies of "Notable" Chicago Lawyers
The Likelihood of Knowing Notables
The Characteristics of the Notables
Biographical Sketches of Notables
Smallest Space Analysis of Notables' Networks
The Notables' Space as Defined by Respondent Characteristics
The Spheres of Influence

Chapter 6. The Hemispheres of the Legal Profession: Summary and Speculation
Size, Separation, and Specialization of the Two Hemispheres
The Legal and Medical Professions Compared
Interests from Within and Without
Sources of the Profession's Social Organization
Corporate Lawyers and their Clients: Further Thoughts on the Allocation of Autonomy
Functional and Conflct Perspectives Reexamined
Conclusion

JOHN P. HEINZ is the Owen L. Coon Professor of Law at Northwestern University and Distinguished Research Fellow of the American Bar Foundation. Edward O. Laumann is the George Herbert Mead Distinguished Professor of Sociology and former provost of the University of Chicago.

"This major contribution to the study of the legal profession is certain to become a standard reference and resource in the field." –Choice

"A major achievement . . . For anyone with a serious empirical interest in the legal profession, Chicago Lawyers clearly sets the standard for future work in the field." –American Journal of Sociology

"Chicago Lawyers is the most comprehensive study of the bar of a major American city. Its sound empirical foundation and provactive theoretical framework have shaped the understanding of a generation of researchers and students." —Richard L. Abel, UCLA

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