CJL 3038 EXAM 4 QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS. VERIFIED 2025/2026.
Outline: Lawyers
Where are we today?
Where do lawyers practice? - ANS -Private Practice
-Government
-Private Employment
-Judiciary
-Readings...
-Lawyers and Money
Lawyers - ANS Probably members of no other profession have simultaneously been the
subject of honor and vilification to the extent that lawyers have. They are either seen as
champions or as despicable villains.
Lawyers - ANS -Professionals must answer ethical questions on their own
-Generally, professionals want two things:
-To be changed and take on the attributes of the profession
-To keep previous selves intact
-Profession as an addition to their lives
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,Evolution of a profession - ANS -The law is a learned profession
-Professionalization
:An attempt to translate one type of resource into another
-Specialized knowledge and skills becomes social and economic reward
Market control - ANS -the successful assertion of unchallenged authority over some area of
knowledge and its professional instrumentation
-Until the body of knowledge became too much for the ordinary person to handle, there was no
need for a legal profession
Evolution of a profession - ANS To become a profession, a discipline must:
Become a full-time occupation
Have established training schools
University affiliation of training schools
Local professional associations must started
National professional associations evolved
State licensing laws must exist
Formal codes of ethics must be established
Becoming a full-time occupation - ANS -Primitive societies
-Lawyers did not exist
-Judges and courts were temporary
-The development of the legal profession has been intimately connected with the rise of legal
systems
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, Becoming a full-time occupation - ANS -In the 1200s, the profession of the advocate (a
regulated group of law practitioners with some formal training) emerged
-First lawyers were trained by judges in the courtroom
-Then, training moved out of the courtroom into the Inns of the Court (England)
-Members of the Inns became organized and monopolized the training of lawyer
Becoming a full-time occupation - ANS -The American Legal Profession
Pre-Revolution
-Law was practiced by the upper class
-Wealthy sent their sons to the Inns of Courts
-Lawyers were unpopular
-During Revolution
-Many lawyers emigrated to England
-Post-Revolution
-Legal profession became more egalitarian
The American Legal Profession
Pre-Revolution - ANS Law was practiced by the upper class
Wealthy sent their sons to the Inns of Courts
Lawyers were unpopular
During Revolution
Many lawyers emigrated to England
Post-Revolution
Legal profession became more egalitarian
Establishing Training Schools - ANS 1770s-1780s
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ANSWERS. VERIFIED 2025/2026.
Outline: Lawyers
Where are we today?
Where do lawyers practice? - ANS -Private Practice
-Government
-Private Employment
-Judiciary
-Readings...
-Lawyers and Money
Lawyers - ANS Probably members of no other profession have simultaneously been the
subject of honor and vilification to the extent that lawyers have. They are either seen as
champions or as despicable villains.
Lawyers - ANS -Professionals must answer ethical questions on their own
-Generally, professionals want two things:
-To be changed and take on the attributes of the profession
-To keep previous selves intact
-Profession as an addition to their lives
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,Evolution of a profession - ANS -The law is a learned profession
-Professionalization
:An attempt to translate one type of resource into another
-Specialized knowledge and skills becomes social and economic reward
Market control - ANS -the successful assertion of unchallenged authority over some area of
knowledge and its professional instrumentation
-Until the body of knowledge became too much for the ordinary person to handle, there was no
need for a legal profession
Evolution of a profession - ANS To become a profession, a discipline must:
Become a full-time occupation
Have established training schools
University affiliation of training schools
Local professional associations must started
National professional associations evolved
State licensing laws must exist
Formal codes of ethics must be established
Becoming a full-time occupation - ANS -Primitive societies
-Lawyers did not exist
-Judges and courts were temporary
-The development of the legal profession has been intimately connected with the rise of legal
systems
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, Becoming a full-time occupation - ANS -In the 1200s, the profession of the advocate (a
regulated group of law practitioners with some formal training) emerged
-First lawyers were trained by judges in the courtroom
-Then, training moved out of the courtroom into the Inns of the Court (England)
-Members of the Inns became organized and monopolized the training of lawyer
Becoming a full-time occupation - ANS -The American Legal Profession
Pre-Revolution
-Law was practiced by the upper class
-Wealthy sent their sons to the Inns of Courts
-Lawyers were unpopular
-During Revolution
-Many lawyers emigrated to England
-Post-Revolution
-Legal profession became more egalitarian
The American Legal Profession
Pre-Revolution - ANS Law was practiced by the upper class
Wealthy sent their sons to the Inns of Courts
Lawyers were unpopular
During Revolution
Many lawyers emigrated to England
Post-Revolution
Legal profession became more egalitarian
Establishing Training Schools - ANS 1770s-1780s
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