Negotiating Justice Progressive Lawyering, Low-Income Clients, and the Quest for Social Change

Name: Negotiating Justice Progressive Lawyering, Low-Income Clients, and the Quest for Social Change
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ISBN: 9780814708699

ISBN-10: 0814708692

ISBN-13: 9780814708699

Edition: 2011

Authors: Corey S. Shdaimah

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While many young people become lawyers For The big bucks, others are motivated by the pursuit of social justice, seeking to help people for whom legal services are financially, socially, or politically inaccessible. These progressive lawyers often bring a considerable degree of idealism to their work, and many leave the field due to insurmountable red tape and spiraling disillusionment. But what about those who stay? and what do their clients think? Negotiating Justiceexplores how progressive lawyers and their clients negotiate the dissonance between personal idealism And The realities of a system that doesn't often champion the rights of the poor.Corey S. Shdaimah draws on over fifty…

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List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: New York University Press
Publication date: 4/22/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 239
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.704
Language: English

Corey S. Shdaimah is Associate Professor at the University of Maryland, School of Social Work.



Acknowledgments


Preface: The Masters Tools



Clients and Lawyers



Why Talk to Clients and Lawyers? A Grounded Interpretivist Framework



Working for Social Justice in an Unjust System



Did Someone Say Autonomy?



Collaboration



Lawyer and Client: Face to Face



Progressive Lawyering and the Ethic of Risk


Appendixes


Notes


References


Index


About the Author