Cheaper by the Hour Temporary Lawyers and the Deprofessionalization of the Law 1st Edition by Robert Brooks 1439902879 9781439902875

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ISBN 10: 1439902879 

ISBN 13: 9781439902875

Author: Robert A. Brooks

Recent law school graduates often work as temporary attorneys, but law firm layoffs and downsizing have strengthened the temporary attorney industry. Cheaper by the Hour is the first book-length account of these workers. Drawing from participant observation and interviews, Robert A. Brooks provides a richly detailed ethnographic account of freelance attorneys in Washington, DC. He places their document review work in the larger context of the deprofessionalization of skilled labor and considers how professionals relegated to temporary jobs feel diminished, degraded, or demeaned by work that is often tedious, repetitive, and well beneath their abilities. Brooks documents how firms break a lawyer’s work into discrete components that require less skill to realize maximum profits. Moreover, he argues that information technology and efficiency demands are further stratifying the profession and creating a new underclass of lawyers who do low-end commodity work.

Table of contents:

1. Degraded and Insecure: The “New” Workforce

2. “Basically Interchangeable”: The Creation of the Temporary Lawyer

3. Life on the Concourse Level: Doing Document Review

4. Box Shopping in “Nike Town”: Struggles over Work

5. “Keeping Count of Every Freakin’ Minute”: Struggles over Time

6. “A Glorified Data Entry Person”: Struggles over Identity

7. “I Would Rather Grow in India”: The Emerging Legal Underclass

Appendix A: Document Review Project Summary

Appendix B: The Questionnaire

Appendix C: The Attorneys

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