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In Western Europe, the legal profession went into decline during the Dark Ages, re-emerging during the 12th and 13th centuries in the form of experts on canon law. The profession started to be regulated and to extend its reach to civil as well as ecclesiastical law.
The history of the American legal profession covers the work, training, and professional activities of lawyers from the colonial era to the present. Lawyers grew increasingly powerful in the colonial era as experts in the English common law , which was adopted by the colonies.
He republished the book in 1836 as A Course of Legal Study, Addressed to Students and the Profession Generally, [4] around the time he was losing interest in his law school and legal practice. [5] The book included an extensive reading list and a guide for producing one's own series of notebooks to use while reading law. [6]
Reading law was the primary method used in common law countries, particularly the United States, for people to prepare for and enter the legal profession before the advent of law schools. It consisted of an extended internship or apprenticeship under the tutelage or mentoring of an experienced lawyer .
A lawyer is a person who is qualified to offer advice about the law, draft legal documents, or represent individuals in legal matters.. The exact nature of a lawyer's work varies depending on the legal jurisdiction and the legal system, as well as the lawyer's area of practice.
The rise of the legal profession in America ( 2 vol. U of Oklahoma Press, 1965). Granfield, Robert. Making elite lawyers : visions of law at Harvard and beyond - New York, NY [etc.] : Routledge, 1992; Duncan Kennedy: Legal Education and the Reproduction of Hierarchy, New Edition, New York Univ Press, 2004, ISBN 0-8147-4778-7
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Rhode was the author of 30 books, [6] dealing with a range of subjects in the fields of gender and the law, legal ethics and other concerns of the legal profession. Rhode’s 1989 book Justice and Gender: Sex Discrimination and the Law was devoted to the exhaustive documentation of discrimination over the span of 200 years; the text was 321 ...