The Legal Profession

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This paper explores the modern legal profession and its recent trend of stratification. It explores the profession's inequality with regards to law schools, geographical location, salaries and specialization. The author offers a personal opinion of the effects of specialization and stratification on lawyers and the justice system.

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"One attorney notes that the changing practice and professional emphasis of law on specialization has also created a change in the culture of many law firms. He states that there has been stratification between old and new members of the profession, as much larger portion of law practice is carried on in large organizations. Those at the top of these hierarchical structures feel removed from the day-to-day practice that they increasingly do not understand and those at the bottom "feel a loss of community and autonomy. Everyone finds less warmth and collegiality.""

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