Multicultural Lawyering

Navigating the Culture of the Law, the Lawyer, and the Client

Kimberly E. O'Leary and Mable Martin-Scott
eISBN-13: 9781531020422

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This book is a mix of policy, legal history, professionalism, and lawyering skills. It asks readers to explore multiculturalism through several different lenses. First, readers explore the reasons behind calls for diversity in the legal profession, examining how ordinary people view the culture of the law. Next, readers explore their own cultural backgrounds, consider implicit bias, and examine how to best navigate their own cultures as they interact with legal systems. Then, readers examine how to best represent clients with a particular focus on understanding client goals and helping translate client values and culture into legal system values and culture, while always cognizant of their own values and cultures.

Finally, readers explore case studies where failure to appreciate culture has had critical consequences. The book provides perspective through essays about multicultural values in legal systems in other countries. It can be used as a textbook in a multicultural lawyering course or seminar, in a professional identity and culture course, or as a supplement to a clinic, skills, or doctrinal course. Lawyers and other legal professionals can use this book to explore multiculturalism and its effects in the legal system.

Sold By Carolina Academic Press
ISBNs 9781531020422, 1531020429, 9781531020415, 1531020410
Publish Year 2021
Language English
Website https://cap-press.com/books/isbn/9781531020415/Multicultural-Lawyering