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He investigates the troubling mismatch between the number of lawyers produced and the number of law jobs available, skyrocketing rates of attorney dissatisfaction, and an overall sense that what once made the law a unique vocation is disappearing. Now, the profession we most love to hate is hilariously portrayed by some of the greatest cartoonists of our time, including james thurber and charles addams, in this smallformat collection of cartoons taken from the pages of the new yorker magazine. Covid19 and the reformation of legal culture forbes. The 2016 trade paperback of my latest book, basic booksperseus, april 20 with an extensive new afterword is available. For our society, the covid19 pandemic represents an ebb tide of historic proportions, one that is laying bare vulnerabilities and inequities that in normal times have gone undiscovered.
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