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The Practice Dynamics of Solo and Small Firm Lawyers

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Seron Carroll, The Business of Practicing Law: The Work Lives of Solo and Small-Firm Attorneys. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1996. xiv + 224 pages.
Carlin Jerome E., Lawyers on Their Own: The Solo Practitioner in an Urban Setting. San Francisco: Austin & Winfield Publishers, Inc., 1994. xxxvi + 234 pages. $59.95 cloth

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Jerry Van Hoy
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The American legal profession has experienced dramatic change in the late 20th century. Attorneys have witnessed vast growth in new entrants (Curran 1986; Curran & Carson 1991; Sander & Williams 1989), the abolition of restrictions on new methods of finding clients and price competition (Abel 1989; Reidinger 1987; Seron 1992), changes in the delivery of legal services and law firm organization (Nelson 1988; Seron 1992; Van Hoy 1995, 1997), the growth of large law firms (Galanter & Palay 1991), and an increase in employed lawyers (Abel 1989; Spangler 1986).

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Law & Society Review , Volume 31 , Issue 2 , 1997 , pp. 377 - 387
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Copyright © 1997 by The Law and Society Association.

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Stephen Daniels provided helpful comments on earlier drafts of this essay.

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