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Allegretti, Joseph G.  The Lawyer's Calling: Christian Faith and Legal Practice. New York:
 Paulist Press, 1996.   
 
Cahn, Edmond M.  The Moral Decision: Right and Wrong in the Light of American Law.
 Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1981.  
 
Coffin, Frank M.  On Appeal: Courts, Lawyering, and Judging. New York: W.W. Norton,
 1994.   
 
Epstein, Richard A.  Simple Rules for a Complex World. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University
 Press, 1995.    

Freedman, Monroe.  Understanding Lawyers' Ethics. New York: Matthew Bender, 1990.
   
Harrington, Mona.  Women Lawyers:  Rewriting the Rules.  New York:  Alfred A.
 Knopf, 1994.    

Haskell, Paul G.  Why Lawyers Behave As They Do.  Boulder: Westview Press, 1998.
   
Jenkins, John A.  The Litigators: Inside the Powerful World of America's High-Stakes Trial
 Lawyers.  New York: Doubleday, 1989.    

Linowitz, Sol M.  The Betrayed Profession: Lawyering at the End of the Twentieth Century.
 New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1994.    

Mann, Kenneth.  Defending White Collar Crime: A Portrait of Attorneys at Work.  New
 Haven: Yale University Press, 1985.    

Nelson, Robert L.  Partners with Power: The Social Transformation of the Large Law Firm.
 Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988.    

Samar, Vincent J.  Justifying Judgment:  Practicing Law and Philosophy.  Lawrence:
 University Press of Kansas, 1998.    

Sammons, Jack L.  Lawyer Professionalism. Durham: Carolina Academic Press, 1988.  
 
Sells, Benjamin. 

 - - Order in the Court: Crafting a More Just World in Lawless Times. Boston: Element, 1999.  

 - -The Soul of the Law.  Rockport, MA: Element, 1994. 

Spangler, Eve.  Lawyers for Hire: Salaried Professionals at Work. New Haven: Yale
 University Press, 1986.    

Stewart, James B.  The Prosecutors: Inside the Offices of the Government's Most Powerful
 Lawyers. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1987.    

Wice, Paul B. Judges and Lawyers: The Human Side of Justice.  New York: HarperCollins,
 1991.