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{"title":"Female lawyers in Egyptian and Lebanese films over the last 75 years: caretakers and anomalies with limited back stories","authors":"Hilary Christina Bell, Aisha Al-Naama","doi":"10.1080/09695958.2023.2197602","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09695958.2023.2197602","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Women in the Arab world have never had better access to education and professional careers. Despite this, gender stereotypes are hampering women’s progression towards gender equality. This article considers how the representation of women in film is contributing to the issue. The representation of female lawyers in Lebanese and Egyptian cinema over the last 75 years demonstrates gender disparity. On the scarce occasions when female lawyers are represented, they are confined to a caretaker role and associated with family disputes. By associating female lawyers with the family, they are put into the traditional Arab role of a woman, reinforcing the imbedded stereotypes that hamper the career progression of Arab women. We do not see male family members contributing to family obligations, which would demonstrate a significant move towards gender parity. Female lawyers are often defined by a relationship, romantic or otherwise, with a male protagonist. This perpetuates the patriarchal norm that Arab women are subordinate to their male relatives. There has been a shift towards greater gender equality in the representation of female lawyers in contemporary portrayals in Lebanese cinema. However, female lawyers still most often appear in isolation, giving them the status of an anomaly, the “Other”.","PeriodicalId":43893,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of the Legal Profession","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-04-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43950941","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The feminisation of the notary profession in France: end of a patriarchal bastion or sedimentation of a gender stratification?","authors":"Corinne Delmas","doi":"10.1080/09695958.2023.2190898","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09695958.2023.2190898","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43893,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of the Legal Profession","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-04-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48609823","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"From Clair to Annalise: how to get away with being a black woman lawyer on television","authors":"Kellyn O. McGee","doi":"10.1080/09695958.2023.2191965","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09695958.2023.2191965","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT\u0000 Clair Huxtable was the iconic mother, wife, and lawyer on The Cosby Show, an American television sitcom that premiered in September 1984. She appeared to be the perfect lawyer—partner in a law firm, prepared for every case, triumphant in every case, and never stepping over, or anywhere near, the boundary line of legal ethics—all while mothering children ranging in age from 5 to 20 years and supporting her equally successful obstetrician/gynecologist husband. In all her perfection, Clair presumably inspired young women to become lawyers during the middle 1980s through the early 1990s, and beyond. Clair Huxtable was a tough act to follow. The Black women lawyers who came after her on scripted television brought more realism to what it really means to be Black, woman, and a lawyer. These characters have helped direct the professional identities of their real counterparts in the decades since Clair entered our living rooms. This article explores the images of Black woman lawyer characters on scripted television since 1984 and how those images compare or contrast with Clair Huxtable and real-life Black women lawyers.","PeriodicalId":43893,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of the Legal Profession","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-03-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49627125","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"“The rookie and the fallen elite”: an examination of the portrayal of female lawyers in the Japanese legal drama “Onna wa sore wo yurusanai”","authors":"Elizabeth Rajapakshe","doi":"10.1080/09695958.2023.2185622","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09695958.2023.2185622","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT\u0000 While most Japanese legal dramas feature a male protagonist as the hero, a significant amount of screen time is allocated to the courtroom heroine as well. This is in spite of statistics that show that women are still underrepresented in the Japanese legal profession. Surveying post-2000 Japanese legal television dramas reveals that televisual female legal professionals conform to two stock character types and corresponding narrative arcs: the rookie lawyer, and the elite but “fallen” lawyer. While most shows only feature one such heroine, Onna wa sore wo yurusanai (2014) features two, representing both types. This paper closely examines how the two stock characters are portrayed in this drama and the relevance of each to the larger narrative which reveals the difficulties female legal professionals face while navigating Japan's male-dominated legal domain. The paper concludes that the increasing presence of the heroine in legal dramas and her overall positive portrayal, reflects the Japanese government's goal of raising the number of legal professionals and women's participation in all public sectors by 2020, and also indicates changing attitudes on the part of Japanese society toward the need to give greater recognition and social acceptance to female legal professionals.","PeriodicalId":43893,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of the Legal Profession","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-03-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47723431","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Self(ie) mapping the relevance of professional daily decision-making process by lawyers","authors":"L. Angioletti, Simone Greco, M. Balconi","doi":"10.1080/09695958.2023.2168673","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09695958.2023.2168673","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This study investigates the activities requiring the most important decisions for lawyers during a typical professional day. The sample was composed of ten lawyers and ten non-legal professionals to compare different working groups. Daily journals (DDs) were used to gather behavioral information about the type of activities that require varying levels of relevance in terms of decision making and the time of day when professionals make these important decisions. Qualitative findings suggested decisions are mainly taken in relation to leisure, work and planning activities. For both groups, more relevant decisions were taken in the morning compared to afternoon and evening, and more in relation to work compared with leisure activities. Interestingly, the group of lawyers reported a greater relevance for decisions related to planning activities compared to work activities. At the practical level, this evidence could guide the organization of work activities made by the institutions, e.g. recommending that tasks requiring decision making are placed in strategic time slots. For lawyers, the moment in which they plan their activities consists in the phase in which the fate of their work is really played: meeting with counterparts, act/opinion/warning drafting, legal advice, and consulting are all legal actions that require important decisions for them.","PeriodicalId":43893,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of the Legal Profession","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45401768","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Lawyers in self-estrangement: resolving the challenges of sustaining university law clinics","authors":"Anne Kotonya","doi":"10.1080/09695958.2023.2168672","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09695958.2023.2168672","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article examines the challenges encountered by university law clinics in their legal aid projects that are designed to assuage national access to justice deficits. Towards the resolution of these challenges, it proposes a sustainability paradigm that bears significant implications for lawyers, legal educators and other clinic collaborators. The article begins by locating the pragmatic, moral and legal underpinnings of the social justice mission of university law clinics. The subsequent analysis of legal aid provided by universities is supported by data on clinic activity collected through interviews of clinic directors and focus group discussions with student leaders in university law clinics in Kenya. The findings reveal the multiple challenges that clinics confront as being in leadership, lack of representational capacity, inadequate resourcing, under-explored potential, poor institutional synergies and sub-optimal placement in university structures. The article then establishes a link between these setbacks and the sustainability of the clinics, arguing that reframing the problem in Kenya as one of sustainability yields potential avenues for addressing the challenges in ways that are progressive and impactful.","PeriodicalId":43893,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of the Legal Profession","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44996291","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Legal help-seeking behaviour among veterans: the link between time elapsed in seeking help and legal options to address a legal matter","authors":"W. Collier, O. Olusanya, G. Griffiths, Victoria Knapp, Lucija Smid, Cori Snook","doi":"10.1080/09695958.2023.2190897","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09695958.2023.2190897","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This study provides a unique approach for investigating help-seeking behaviour, specifically the occurrence of actual help-seeking behaviour among the British Military Veteran population. The study aimed to evaluate the range of legal options available to address a legal matter based on how quickly from an issue arising help was sought to address it. This study represents the first study into veterans’ legal help-seeking that examines actual legal matters that were brought to a legal advice project. (1) the study suggested a relationship between the elapsed time from the introduction of a legal issue and seeking help and the range of legal options available to clients, and (2) In comparison with the general population, the majority of veterans who contacted an adviser to help with their problems delayed seeking legal help until their options become limited or non-existent. This clearly puts them at increased risk for unsuccessful outcomes in terms of the likelihood of achieving a satisfactory resolution of their problems. It shows that military identity is a determining factor in the length of time people take before seeking legal help and that a military identity can inhibit people from seeking help in a timely manner.","PeriodicalId":43893,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of the Legal Profession","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48905103","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Editorial Issue 1 2023","authors":"A. Sherr","doi":"10.1080/09695958.2023.2214779","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09695958.2023.2214779","url":null,"abstract":"Buschor opens the year with a study of managing partners in law firms in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. 15 distinct roles for managing partners are identified, opening the field for further research. Governance structures are addressed and a relatively large number of administrative tasks and personal concerns are found in their roles. Collier et al look at legal help-seeking behaviour among British military veterans, showing that the more they delay in seeking help, the fewer possibilities there are for useful assistance. They also note that delay is associated with military identity in these legal clients. Tsereteli presents a well-researched case study on how the role of informality in systems of judicial recruitment allows change to appear to exist on paper but not in practice. The post-communist judiciary in Georgia shows the complex relationship between formal and informal rules governing judicial recruitment from a lawyer base; and how power is easily abused. Dehagahani and Newman take Galanter’s (1973) concept of repeat players and oneshotters into the world of criminal defence lawyers in Wales. Is such a categorisation helpful to the client or to the lawyer and what should the lawyer do for each? The binary assumption was found not to be useful in terms of treatment and attention. Smith’s (2013) approach was considered to be the most appropriate in terms of assessing the defence lawyer’s behaviourpartisanship for the accused, as well as detachment and confidentiality in dealings. Pivaty’s (2019) typology differentiating the strictly legal and the affective aspects of the lawyer’s role was also helpful. Winczorek looks at legal services for small and medium-sized enterprises in Poland. Winczorek shows the importance of SMEs internationally, entities of moderate complexity and high vulnerability. Accountants seem to help SMEs with their “legal” problems more than lawyers. Patterns of legal service use are developed using the Paths to Justice model (Genn (1999)). The domestic type tasks of “valet, butler and housekeeper” are developed to show the ways in which SMEs use lawyer assistance -only from a rational stance where it provides a useful business return.","PeriodicalId":43893,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of the Legal Profession","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47466445","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Valets, butlers, housekeepers. Lawyers and accountants as service providers in the market of legal services for SMEs in Poland","authors":"Jan Winczorek","doi":"10.1080/09695958.2023.2168674","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09695958.2023.2168674","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This paper looks into the practices and meanings of legal services use by small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Poland. Based on the results of extensive quantitative (n>7000) and qualitative (101 IDIs) studies, it finds that SMEs face significant access to justice barriers. While the studies find that apparent cost barriers cause this, they stress the limited complexity, time and organisational resources at SMEs’ disposal. Furthermore, the realities of small business in Poland and the wide use of private ordering often render legal services spurious. As a result, SME owners and managers adapt the legal services used to their businesses’ limited possibilities and most acute needs. In so doing, they appear to act rationally, with the view of maximising the economic output of their businesses. Despite the availability of lawyers, legal services are often delivered by accountants, and generally kept at a minimum. A typology of legal services used by SMEs created based on qualitative study results: “legal valeting”, “butlering”, and “housekeeping”, reflects this. Traditional home servants inspire these names and indicate the scope of service and the type of relationship between the professionals and service providers.","PeriodicalId":43893,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of the Legal Profession","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42782112","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Roles of managing partners in mid-size and large law firms – evidence from the DACH-region","authors":"Dario Ramon Buschor","doi":"10.1080/09695958.2023.2192500","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09695958.2023.2192500","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT While there has been ample research on the roles of managers, no similar studies have been conducted regarding the roles of Managing Partners in law firms – a subgroup of professional service firms (PSF). However, the many differences between PSFs and industrial or other service providers suggest that the existing research on the role of managers cannot be applied to law firm Managing Partners. In order to fill that gap and analyze the roles of law firm managers, evidence was collected in 34 interviews with 36 Managing Partners from large and mid-size law firms in the DACH-Region (Germany, Austria and Switzerland) regarding their function as their firms’ top managers. Analysis shows that while the Managing Partner function varies considerably between law firms, the activities of Managing Partners can be clustered into 15 distinct roles. This study adds empirical evidence to the existing practice literature and supports our understanding of the Managing Partner function in law firms and other PSF.","PeriodicalId":43893,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of the Legal Profession","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47419437","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}