Everyone Hiring a Criminal-Defense Lawyer Should Read This
In Casual cruelty–part two Judge Kopf mentioned "Abraham S. Blumberg's 1967 classic entitled The Practice of Law as a Confidence Game: Organizational Cooptation of a Profession."
Confidence games, law, and the cooptation of the profession? That sounded right up my alley. I found a copy in the wild. After reading it a couple of times, I am convinced that it is something that everyone needing to hire a criminal-defense lawyer should read and understand. It is poorly written ("classic"?) and unsourced, but utterly cynical and mostly true.
Read it.
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