Basically Interchangeable The Creation of the Temporary Lawyer

The temporary attorney industry began with a handful of one-person agencies in the 1980s in New York City and Washington, D.C., and it is now a national, $1.5 billion per year business. Law firms were initially resistant to using temporary attorneys, but their use is now widely accepted. Thus, of pa...

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Published inCheaper by the Hour p. 28
Main Author Brooks, Robert A
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published United States Temple University Press 04.03.2011
Subjects
Administrative law
Attorneys
Attorneys fees
Business
Business operations
Civil law
Colleges
Commerce
Commercial regulation
Communications
Contract law
Contracts
Corporate regulation
Economic disciplines
Economic regulation
Economics
Education
Educational institutions
Employment
Fees
Financial transactions
Formal education
Industrial sectors
Industry
Labor
Labor economics
Labour economics
Law
Law schools
Lawyer client communication
Legal counsel
Legal fees
Legal professionals
Legal representation
Legal rights
Legal services
Occupations
Payments
Physical anthropology & ethnography
Professional communication
Schools
Service industries
Social sciences
Sociology: work & labour
Temporary labor
Workforce
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Summary:The temporary attorney industry began with a handful of one-person agencies in the 1980s in New York City and Washington, D.C., and it is now a national, $1.5 billion per year business. Law firms were initially resistant to using temporary attorneys, but their use is now widely accepted. Thus, of particular interest here is the marketing of the temporary lawyer, which involved both the legal press and placement agencies, whose apparent goal was to change the perception of the temporary attorney from “damaged goods” to a legitimate, professionalized category (Agger 1997; MacLachlan 2001). This process was quite similar to the
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