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Even some less demagogic observers have begun to attack the profession. Thursday's Wall Street Journal, for example, in its tepid endorsement of the president, said "containing the plaintiff bar would do more for the American economic performance than all of the infrastructure Bill Clinton proposes to build."
Needless to say, these are difficult psychic and economic times for the legal profession and its practitioners. The anti-lawyer diatribes seem to have found a receptive audience in the general public, while the substantial contribution of lawyers to society (especially corporate lawyers) is conveniently ignored, lost in a flurry...
And the profession seems to be tearing itself apart from within, divided by an ideological dichotomy between conservatives and critical legal studies proponents about the function of lawyers. This has spilled out for public debate in a less academic form: At stake is whether lawyers are compelled to be fiery...
There are, of course, intelligent citizens of goodwill who also ignore politics. One of the glories of our society is that they can do so safely. The engineer, chemist or doctor hard put to keep up with the demands of his profession for study and knowledge; the artist, musician or...
"The epiphanous experience was when I was about17 or 18. I arrived at the University of Alabamaand my intention was then to train to become aprofessional anthropologist. But I discoveredevolution in the writings of Ernst Mayr, who'sstill around--he's a professor emeritus here atHarvard. It was such an...