To raise the image of Cicero as an ideal to be contrasted with the - TopicsExpress

Library of Law and Liberty

To raise the image of Cicero as an ideal to be contrasted with the reality of the corporate lawyer of today may blind us not only to the weaknesses of the past but also to those selfless lawyers who today do what they can to defend the rule of law. Sheppard acknowledges and accepts this risk, because he knows that “something terribly important has been lost” or is in danger of being lost—a something that he is attempting to capture by recourse to this image. However, even if something terribly important is in danger of being lost, it may also be that by framing consideration of what that something is with the Ciceronian ideal rather than the practice of the law, even as ridiculed by Dickens in Jarndyce v. Jarndyce in the novel Bleak House (the latter more in accord with the average person’s experience of the law with the lawyer’s fee of $500 per hour, that is, the charge for a several minute-long telephone call), Sheppard has placed a burden of undue expectations on the cultivated guild of the legal profession.bit.ly/1BZURsW

Posted on: Mon, 12 Jan 2015 20:38:01 +0000

To raise the image of Cicero as an ideal to be contrasted with the - TopicsExpress

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