Swimming in deep water : lawyers, judges, and our troubled legal profession / William Domnarski.
Publisher's description: Based on his thirty years of practice and reading about the profession, William Domnarski in Swimming in deep water: lawyers, judges, and our troubled legal profession delivers bite-sized bits of erudition in fifty 1,400 word essays that with a sharp edge skewer the sta...
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Chicago, Illinois :
American Bar Association,
[2014]
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Table of Contents:
- Alone but connected
- Are we happy yet?
- Arrogance
- Associates used and abused
- Being paid to shower
- Betrayal in plain view
- Big law fees and big trouble
- Big law and poetic justice
- Brainy lawyers
- Can we talk?
- Clients and their lawyers
- Contemptuous
- Criminal defense lawyers and their tough job
- Discovery wars
- Dissecting the profession
- Don't pooh-pooh the profession
- Dressing for success
- Federal Reporter, Third Series
- Food fights masquerading as depositions
- Glib and oily art
- Hope and dread : the nature of legal research
- I am right because I say I am
- Introduction to justice
- Judicial writing
- Laugh out loud
- Lawyers gone bad
- Lawyers writing
- Legal writing instruction misunderstood
- Literary allusions
- Modestly put
- Movies and television in judicial opinions
- Nature of lawyers and lawyering
- Nihilists among us
- Personality and office space
- Practice before an unhappy judge
- Professional cynicism
- Prosecutors
- The saddest place no more
- Seeing yourself and others
- Serendipitous research
- Shakespeare
- So, how did I do?
- Taking instruction from others
- Thinking like a lawyer
- Typographical errors
- What am I worth?
- What would Socrates think?
- Why are we (lawyers) so disliked?
- You don't say?
- Zeal or no zeal.