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Lawyers and Power: Reproduction and Resistance in the Legal Profession

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Shamir Ronan, Managing Legal Uncertainty: Elite Lawyers in the New Deal. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1995. Pp. xii + 252. $45.00 cloth; $18.95 paper.

Hagan John & Kay Fiona, Gender and Practice: A Study of Lawyers' Lives. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. Pp ix + 235. $35.00.

Sarat Austin & Felstiner William L. F., Divorce Lawyers and Their Clients: Power and Meaning in the Legal Process. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. Pp. xii + 191. $35.00.

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