Developments in the Regulation of Lawyers
Competing Segments and Market Client, and Government Controls
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 18992253 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Martyn J Powell (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1985 |
| Volume | 64 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 281-305 |
| Publication date | 1985-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social Forces (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0037-7732 • E-ISSN: 1534-7605 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/sf/64.2.281 |
| OpenAlex | W2159303355 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
| References cited | 8 |
The series of challenges to the autonomy and self-regulatory authority of the pro-fessions which occurred in the 1970s has generally been attributed to changes in public attitudes and values. Questioning the adequacy of this explanation, this paper examines the emergence of new or strengthened market, client, and govern-ment controls affecting the legal pro fession and argues that these developments were initiated or facilitated by the actions of segments of the bar itself seeking to further their own interests. New market, client, and government controls served to modify and supplement collegial regulation rather than displace it. Further-more, it is argued that these developments contribute not so much to the deprofessionalization of the legal profession as to its reprofessionalization whereby the parameters of its autonomy and self-regulatory authority are redefined. Over the past century the classic professions of medicine and law success-fully established the right to control their own destinies, to set educational standards, regulate admission to practice, prescribe ethical codes, and dis-cipline deviant practitioners. So successful were they in the assertion of these rights that freedom from external review and self-regulation came to be regarded by sociologists as definitional characteristics of the profes-sions, distinguishing them from other occupations (Carr-Saunders and Wilson; Goode; Greenwood). Historically, then, professional regulation took the form of peer review or collegial regulation (Freidson,b). Profes-sional associations, admissions boards, codes of ethics, and discipline
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Professional Self‐regulation in North America
Comparing Legal Professions
The professionalism of practising law
Intraprofessional Politics and Professional Regulation
The Legal Profession in the United States and Australia
Social capital, violations of trust and the vulnerability of isolates
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Legal Data Banks, the Glut of Lawyers, and the German Legal Profession
Selling and Processing Law
| Unique citing works | 10 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,28 |
| Citation span | 1990 - 2014 (25) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |