Change in the Legal Profession: Professional Agency and the Legal Labour Process

Daniel Muzio and Stephen Ackroyd

Chapter 2 in Redirections in the Study of Expert Labour, 2008, pp 31-51 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract The claim that the legal profession has been experiencing a period of extensive change is a long-established one. Research inspired by a range of theoretical perspectives is agreed on this point (Abel, 1988, 2003; Flood, 1989, 1996, 1999; Lee, 1992; Sommerlad, 1995, 1999; Kritzer, 1999; Sommerlad and Wall, 1999). Whilst the idea of extensive change appears not to be contentious, there is, nonetheless, considerable disagreement over the way such change should be interpreted and explained. This is interesting not only because what is happening concerns the legal profession itself, but also because the fate of this key occupation is relevant to the consideration of broader questions on the prospects of professionalism as a distinctive type of work-organisation.

Keywords: Support Staff; Legal Profession; Legal Service; Large Practice; Professional Project (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230592827_2

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