When you mentioned to family or friends that you were considering becoming a lawyer, you probably faced skepticism, if not serious criticism You are undoubtedly asking yourself if three or four years of a rigorous and costly legal education is really worth the candle. For you we add these final comments. We hope that they will reassure you, as well as your friends and family, that it is possible, as Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. proclaimed, to live greatly in the law. from "The Lawyer Myth"
Lawyers and the legal profession have become scapegoats for many of the problems of our age. In "The...

Lawyers and the legal profession have become
scapegoats for many of the problems of our
age. In "The Lawyer Myth: A Defense of the
American Legal Profession," Rennard Strickland and
Frank T. Read look behind current antilawyer media
images to explore the historical role of lawyers as a
balancing force in times of social, economic, and political change. One source of this disjunction of perception and reality, they find, is that American society has lost touch with the need for the lawyer s skill and has come to blame unrelated social problems on the legal profession. This...