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...
When you mentioned to family or friends that you were considering becoming a lawyer, you probably faced skepticism, if not serious criticism You are u...
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...
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 L...
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The Education of Little Tree tells of a boy orphaned very young, who is adopted by his Cherokee grandmother and half-Cherokee grandfather in the Appalachian mountains of Tennessee during the Great Depression.
-Little Tree- as his grandparents call him is shown how to hunt and survive in the mountains, to respect nature in the Cherokee Way, taking only what is needed, leaving the rest for nature to run its course.
Little Tree also learns the often callous ways of white businessmen and tax collectors, and how Granpa, in hilarious vignettes, scares them away from his...
The Education of Little Tree tells of a boy orphaned very young, who is adopted by his Cherokee grandmother and half-Cherokee grandfather in...
