Document Type
Article
Publication Title
Legal Ethics
Abstract
This is a review of, The Destruction of Young Lawyers: Beyond One L. by Douglas Litowitz (Akron: University of Akron Press, 2006).
While the book may be a credible (if tiresome) account of Mr. Litowitz's own unhappiness as a law student and large firm new associate, and evidence of the fact there are unhappy lawyers in the world, it overpromotes itself on two counts. Although it is written by a law professor and published by a university press, and makes broad and universal claims about evils in the legal profession, it is largely a slapdash pastiche of hyperbole and anecdote. Nor is it a balanced view of the profession. Rather, it is one man's attempt to transpose his own journey through hopelessness and despair into a universal truth under the patina of scholarship.
First Page
233
Last Page
243
Publication Date
2006
Recommended Citation
Jeffrey M. Lipshaw, "Screed or Scholarship: The Days of Whine and Roses" 9 Legal Ethics 233 (2006).
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License