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AN ANTHROPOLOGICAL STUDY OF THE LEGAL PRO-FESSION: ERWIN 0. SMIGEL, THE WALL STREET LAWYER *. Walter 0. Weyrauch t. A number of empirical studies of the legal profession have been pub-lished in recent years.'. Some of them have relied on standardized methods of inquiry amenable to statistical analysis; others may be called anthro-pological ...
- Walter O. Weyrauch
- 1965
THE WALL STREET LAWYER. By Erwin O. Smigel, New York and London: The Free Press of Glencoe and Collier-Macmillan Limited, 1964. 369 pp., Index, $6.95. THE "Wall Street" lawyers are the professional personnel (partners and associate lawyers) in several of the largest New York City law firms, firms
Erwin O. Smigel. New York: The Free Press of Glencoe, 1964. Pp. ix, 369. $6.95. In this book Professor Smigel, who is Chairman of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the Washington Square College of New York University, endeavors to picture and evaluate the large Wall Street firms. It is an ambitious undertaking.
THE WALL STREET LAWYER. By Erwin 0. Smigel. Free Press of Glencoe. 1964. Pp. ix, 369. $6.95. This book, written by a professor of sociology and anthropology, is a study of the structure and behavior of large law firms (from 50 to 125 lawyers) in New York and other major cities in this country. On the whole, the large law firm, and particularly ...
- Victor H. Kramer, Erwin O. Smigel
- 1964
(7) In the early 1960s, Erwin Smigel found that this view continued to dominate the way large firm lawyers understood their role. His extensive interviews of large firm lawyers in New York revealed that they viewed themselves first and foremost as guardians of the law. (8) This all changed later in the 1960s.
May 11, 2010 · In the early 1960s, Erwin Smigel found that. ... the practice of law can become newly meaningful and the question whether it is a business or a profession an inconsequential one.
Jun 5, 2009 · “The biggest thing I did was I changed the way people thought about dentistry,” said Smigel, sitting in his Midtown Manhattan office, where he continues to practice. He recalled that, more ...
