Professional bifurcation silences unified voice and mirrors wealth inequality

Evidence

The authors suggest that this bifurcation has at least two adverse effects: First, because the interests and perspectives of its members diverge so sharply, the legal profession cannot speak with one voice on the issues that affect it. Second, the division sends a troubling message about the orientation of the legal profession. All Americans are aware that inequalities of wealth and power exist. The bifurcation of the legal profession—with the most notable members of the legal profession serving the needs of corporate America, and a less prestigious group serving private persons—seems to reinforce those inequalities, raising questions about the availability of adequate legal services for the general public. — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 716

Categorization

• XREF: Ties to the course’s foundational-values strand: how legal-institutional structure shapes access to justice and the ideals of equality and fairness. — connects to: Elite silence follows the ideal of value-free rational professionalism — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 356

Broader Connections

• Elite silence follows the ideal of value-free rational professionalism #corroborates (0.72) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 356