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The Lawyer Bubble: A Profession In Crisis (2013)

by Steven J. Harper(Favorite Author)

3.79 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

0465058779 (ISBN13: 9780465058778)

languge

English

genre

Nonfiction

publisher

Basic Books

review 1: A eye opening (and maybe too eye-opening, even) novel that describes the downfall and the flaws within the legal profession. Harper does a great job dissecting and following issues caused by the law schools to the issues created by large law firms, including Dewey & LaBeof that led to their eventual bankruptcy. He not only deconstructs and pinpoints the sources of the lawyer bubble, but goes a step further in suggesting any potential reforms that could be undertaken by all parties (prospective law students included) to inflate it. Great read, thoroughly researched.
review 2: Moral of the story: Let's be better people, and better stewards of the profession. Well researched and well reasoned, this book certainly paints a bleak portrait of the legal profession t... moreoday.I found myself drawing a number of interesting counterpoints between the practice of law in the military and that in the civilian world. Counterpoints I would love to write more about if I ever find the time (which, if I'm being honest, is rather unlikely).I can't speak to the accuracy of statements about life in big law firms and the junior associate "rat race." I found the portions of the book devoted to those topics informative, if rather negative, but so far outside my own experience as a military and public-interest attorney as to have very little fodder to point me toward useful action.The sections on law school admissions were much more relateable to me, as someone who will be paying off law school pretty much in perpetuity. While I have never once experienced regret toward my decision to attend law school, many of the statistics cited in the book were surprising and sad.The clambering for rankings, and for the revenue generated by the students drawn in by such rankings, is disturbing at the least. The prisoner's dilemma presented to law schools and universities wishing to break out of that cycle is frustrating, but not insurmountable.Ultimately, this book was about the creeping pandemic effect greed and pretension can cause (and in some cases has caused) within the profession. It should be a wake up call to students considering law school, to deans and faculty at law schools and universities, and to those in a position to make a change in the greater practice (which is really just about everyone from one angle or another). less

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