Volume 28, Number 4 · March 19, 1981

A Mixed Bane

By Graham Hughes
Lawyers on Trial
by Philip M. Stern

Times Books, 265 pp., $12.50

No Access to Law: Alternatives to the American Judicial System
edited by Laura Nader

Academic Press, 540 pp., $12.95 (paper)

Lawsuit
by Stuart M. Speiser

Horizon Press, 619 pp., $9.95 (paper)

Even when 'pain and anguish wring the brow' lawyers are rarely perceived as 'ministering angels.' They are more likely to be seen as vultures. Polemics portray them as the bosom lackeys of capitalism, toiling night and day to smooth the paths of the rich while turning off the word-processor for the pleas of the poor.



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