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Cheaper by the Hour: Temporary Lawyers and the Deprofessionalization of the Law
Temple University Press, 2012 Paper: 978-1-4399-0286-8 | Cloth: 978-1-4399-0285-1 | eISBN: 978-1-4399-0287-5 Library of Congress Classification KF299.T46B76 2011 Dewey Decimal Classification 331.25729
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
Recent law school graduates often work as temporary attorneys, but law firm layoffs and downsizing have strengthened the temporary attorney industry. Cheaper by the Hour is the first book-length account of these workers. See other books on: Employment | Hour | Labor | Lawyers | Temporary employment See other titles from Temple University Press |
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Cheaper by the Hour: Temporary Lawyers and the Deprofessionalization of the Law
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | REVIEWS | TOC | REQUEST ACCESSIBLE FILE
Temple University Press, 2012
Paper: 978-1-4399-0286-8
Cloth: 978-1-4399-0285-1
eISBN: 978-1-4399-0287-5
Paper: 978-1-4399-0286-8
Cloth: 978-1-4399-0285-1
eISBN: 978-1-4399-0287-5
Recent law school graduates often work as temporary attorneys, but law firm layoffs and downsizing have strengthened the temporary attorney industry. Cheaper by the Hour is the first book-length account of these workers.
Drawing from participant observation and interviews, Robert A. Brooks provides a richly detailed ethnographic account of freelance attorneys in Washington, DC. He places their document review work in the larger context of the deprofessionalization of skilled labor and considers how professionals relegated to temporary jobs feel diminished, degraded, or demeaned by work that is often tedious, repetitive, and well beneath their abilities.
Brooks documents how firms break a lawyer's work into discrete components that require less skill to realize maximum profits. Moreover, he argues that information technology and efficiency demands are further stratifying the profession and creating a new underclass of lawyers who do low-end commodity work.
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