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- Title
SHALL THE LEGAL PROFESSION BE REORGANIZED?
- Authors
Wigmore, John H.
- Abstract
The article presents a debate on reorganization of the legal profession. One thing signified is that the profession is not giving satisfaction to the best ideals of the day. Whether standards have changed, or the profession has changed, the fact remains that its work, judged by present best standards, is to a considerable extent wasteful and misguided. The thought of placing the bar upon an official salaried status will be for many the subject of derisive incredulousness. No doubt, in its radical entirety, it could be only feasible after another generation of change. But in the meantime it need not be laughed at, for the simple reason that people themselves have already in part done it. The state maintains public hospitals, but these do not drive out private endowed hospitals nor destroy the private medical practitioners. The article author wishes to emphasize is that there is a part of the field, small in relative scope, but large in the intensity of its suffering and need, in which the state today can and ought to officialize the bar, without any radical change of method, of ideals, or of human nature.
- Subjects
EXECUTIVE department reorganization; LAWYERS; LEGAL professions; WAGES; PUBLIC hospitals; PROFESSIONS
- Publication
Journal of the American Institute of Criminal Law & Criminology, 1914, Vol 4, Issue 5, p641
- ISSN
0885-4173
- Publication type
Article