Synthesising socio-legal research: Lawyer-client relations as an example

International Journal of the Legal Profession

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 191-201

  Felstiner, William L F ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 0346471547     PISSN: 09695958     EISSN: 14699257     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09695950220141016     Document Type: Note

References (41)

1. Felstiner, William L. F., 1998. “ Justice and power in the legal profession ”. In Justice and Power in Sociolegal Studies, Edited by: Garth, E.G., and Sarat, A., Evanston: Northwestern University Press. Earlier versions of this paper were presented at the Australian Law Reform Commission's conference on managing justice in Sydney in May 2000, the annual meeting of the Dutch Sociolegal Association in Ellecom in December 2000 and the W.G. Hart Conference in London in June 2001. The summary of the literature on lawyer-client relations is in major part derived from a previous paper
2. Moorhead, Richard, Sherr, Avrom, Webley, Lisa, Rogers, Sarah, Sherr, Lorraine, Paterson, Alan, and Domberger, Simon. 2000. Quality and Cost: Final Report on the Contracting of Civil, Non-Family Advice and Assistance Pilot, Norwich: Stationery Office. Obviously treating clients well is not, by itself, equivalent to delivering high-quality legal services. Moorhead et al., for instance, describe cases where experienced lawyers conclude that legal workers treated clients well, but did nothing to advance their cases. See
3. Binder, David, Bergman, Paul, and Price, Susan. 1991. Lawyers as Counselors: A Client-Centered Approach, St. Paul: West Publishing Co. Simon's view is an instance of the important exhortatory literature that reaches its apex in Binder et al.'s client-centred approach to counselling
4. Galanter, Marc, and Palay, Thomas. 1991. Tournament of Lawyers: The Transformation of the Big Law Firm, Chicago: Chicago University Press. plus a couple of citations to The American Lawyer and The National Law Journal
5. Halliday, Terence C., 1987. Beyond Monopoly, Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
6. Abel, Richard L., 1995. Lawyers in Society: An Overview, 13–14. Berkeley: University of California Press.
7. Blumberg, Abraham. 1967. The practice of law as a confidence game. Law & Society Review, 1: 15
8. Flood, John. 1994. Shark tanks, sweatshops, and the lawyer as hero? Fact as fiction. Journal of Law and Society, 21: 396400
9. Eisenstein, James S., and Jacob, Herbert. 1977. Felony Justice, 50Boston: Little Brown.
10. Hensler, Deborah R., Felstiner, William L.F., Selvin, Molly, and Ebener, Patricia A., 1985. Asbestos in the Courts: The Challenge of Mass Toxic Torts, Santa Monica, CA: Rand Corporation.
11. Johnson, Earl, Jr. 1981. Lawyers' choice: a theoretical appraisal of litigation investment decisions. Law and Society Review, 15: 567
12. Kritzer, Herbert M., Felstiner, William L.F., Sarat, Austin, and Trubek, David M., 1985. The impact of fee arrangement on lawyer effort. Law and Society Review, 19: 251252–253.
13. Macaulay, Stewart. 1979. Lawyers and consumer protection laws. Law and Society Review, 14: 115
14. Baumann, Gregory C., 1996. How to tell if your law firm is padding its bills. Warfield's Business Record, 11: 1 Inserting the words 'padding legal fees' produces 3,200 responses in Google. There is apparently an industry devoted to checking on padding for clients: see
15. Abel, Richard L. 1989. American Lawyers, 247New York: Oxford University Press.
16. Hosticka, Carl. 1979. We don't care what happened, we only care what is going to happen. Social Problems, 26: 599
17. Cunningham, Clark. 1992. The lawyer as translator: towards an ethnography of legal discourse. Cornell Law Review, 77: 1298
18. Casper, Jonathan D., 1972. American Criminal Justice: The Defendant's Perspective, 109116–117. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall.
19. Hengstier, Gary A., 1993. Vox populi: the public perception of lawyers. ABA Journal, 79: 60
20. Menkel-Meadow, Carrie. 1994. Narrowing the gap by narrowing the field: what's missing from the MacCrate Report--of skills, legal science and being a human being. Washington Law Review, 69: 593595
21. 1988. Commission on Women in the Profession, Report, 16Chicago: ABA.
22. Curran, Barbara. 1977. The Legal Needs of the Public: The Final Report of a National Survey, 230Chicago: American Bar Foundation.
23. Harris, Donald, Maclean, Mavis, Genn, Hazel, Lloyd-Bostock, Sally, Fenn, Paul, Corfield, Peter, and Britain, Yvonne. 1984. Compensation and Support for Injury and Illness, 68Oxford: Oxford University Press.
24. Abel, Richard L., 1985. Legal aid. UCLA Law Review, 32: 474584
25. Rosenthal, Douglas. 1974. Lawyer and Client: Who's In Charge, 52New York: Russell Sage Foundation.
26. Levine, Alan P., 1992. Looking for Mr. Good Lawyer. ABA Journal, 78: 60
27. Garth, Bryant G., and Martin, Joanne. 1993. Law schools and the construction of competence. Journal of Legal Education, 43: 469
28. Vogel, Howard H., 1989. Report of ABA Task Force on Outreach to the Public, 23Chicago: ABA.
29. Jaquish, Gail A., and Ware, James. 1993. Adopting an educator habit of mind: modifying what it means to 'think like a lawyer'. Stanford Law Review, 45: 1713
30. Carlin, Jerome E., 1962. Lawyers on Their Own, 73New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press.
31. Sudnow, David. 1964. Normal crimes: sociological features of the penal code in a public defender office. Social Problems, 12: 255–276. 265
32. Furstenberg, Frank F., Jr. 1999. Children and family change: discourse between social scientists and the media. Contemporary Sociology, 28: 10
33. Alfieri, Anthony. 1992. Disabled clients, disabling lawyers. Hastings Law Journal, 43: 769
34. White, Lucie E., 1990. Subordination, rhetorical survival skills, and Sunday shoes: notes on the Hearing of Mrs. G. Buffalo Law Review, 38: 1
35. Samborn, Randall. 1993. Ann-lawyer attitude up. National Law Journal, 15(49): 1
36. Sussman, Fern S., 1993. Lawyers have to take the complaints of clients more seriously. New York Times, 26 November: A183–5.
37. Stevens, Amy. 1994. Lawyers' annoying misdeeds targeted. Wall Street Journal.
38. Seron, Carroll. 1996. The Business of Practicing Law: The Work Lives of Solo and Small-Firm Attorneys, Philadelphia: Temple University Press.
39. Gutmann, Amy. 1993. Can virtue be taught to lawyers?. Stanford Law Review, 45: 1759
40. Sommerlad, Hilary, and Sanderson, Peter. 1998. Gender, Choice and Commitment, Ashgate: Aldershot.
41. Felstiner, William L.F., Pettit, Ben, Lind, E. Allan, and Olsen, Nils. 2002. “ The effect of lawyer gender on client perceptions of lawyer behavior ”. In Women in the World's Legal Professions, Edited by: Shultz, Ulrike, and Shaw, Gisela. Oxford: Hart Publishing Company.