"Comment on "Obstacles to the Study of Lawyer-Client Interaction
The Biography of a Failure
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4984950 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Douglas E Rosenthal (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1980 |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 923-929 |
| Publication date | 1980-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Law & Society Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0023-9216 • E-ISSN: 1540-5893 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/3053214 |
| OpenAlex | W2331468315 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 5 |
Brenda Danet and her colleagues have made a valuable contribution to identifying some of the problems that inhibit effective research by social scientists into lawyer-client interaction. The title, Obstacles to the Study of Lawyer-Client Interaction: The Biography of a Failure (hereafter referred to as Biography), is apt. The researchers tried diligently and at considerable cost to observe lawyers working with clients. Much to their surprise, they failed totally to do so. The Biography is a post-mortem. Considering why the research project failed brought to mind an important new publication by Lindblom and Cohen in which they observe: In public policy making, many suppliers and users of social research are dissatisfied, the former because they are not listened to, the latter because they do not hear much they want to listen to (1979: 1). The Biography appears to reflect this reciprocal frustration. The authors failed to reach the lawyers they hoped to observe. I suspect one reason was that the lawyers approached had considerable difficulty understanding just what the social researchers were up to. I know that I do, reading their postmortem
Biography · Political science · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · Artificial Intelligence in Law · Law · Legal Education and Practice Innovations · Occupational and Professional Licensing Regulation · Psychology
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,03 |
| Citation span | 1995 - 1995 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |