Legal Commentary

By Evan Schaeffer

FOR WHAT IT'S WORTH . . . On this week's New York Times Book Review Podcast, lawyer-novelist Scott Turow had this to say about how the practice of law has changed in the past twenty-five years--

I still think being a lawyer is about having a part in trying to do justice. And it doesn't work out a lot of the time. But it's still a really noble enterprise, compared to the alternative of not trying at all. Too many lawyers lose their sense of alliance with those higher purposes and that's a lot of what's happened in the last twenty-five years, as firm profits have become the driving engine for a lot of what goes on in the practice of law.

The rest of the podcast was less clichéd (and more comprehensible), as Turow talked about his new novel, Innocent, which is out this month.

Full post as published by Notes from the (Legal) Underground on May 17, 2010 (boomark / email).