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 January 5, 2014 in 

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.

https://blog.bennettandbennett.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Law-as-Confidence-Game.pdf

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  2. The Con | Simple Justice January 8, 2014 at 8:14 am - Reply

    […] Bennett beat me to the punch in discussing Blumberg’s article, speaking to the defense lawyers’ […]

  3. License to Steal | Simple Justice January 10, 2014 at 8:56 am - Reply

    […] lawyer confidence game series* that has wended its way from Judge Richard Kopf to Houston’s Mark Bennett to […]

  4. Shelby Livingston January 20, 2014 at 11:18 pm - Reply

    To know the working of these criminal defense Lawyers, you definitely need some great guides like these which you can refer in the case of doubts. A criminal defense attorneys has to stand ready to defend you.

    • Mark Bennett January 21, 2014 at 8:33 pm - Reply

      I have approved this comment in line with my new policy of giving spammy lawyers rope to hang themselves. When Ms. Adelman discovers that her Google ranking has gone down because of such spammy links, she shouldn’t come crying to me.

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