Reviews:

“The finest book about the law and lawyers that I have ever read…[It] is both a clarion wake-up call for the legal profession and a bracing tonic for every law student, lawyer, judge, and law professor whose enthusiasm for law and life needs pumping up.”

                      --Patrick W. O’Brien, Chicago Bar Association Journal

 

“Glendon argues powerfully…[A Nation Under Lawyers] is a witty and concise book…about the profession’s ‘crisis’; possibly the best of the many such books; certainly the easiest to read…This fine book will make us think.”

                       --Richard A. Posner, The New Republic

 

“Poor old civilization finally has an eloquent lawyer to defend it.”

                       --Judith Martin (“Miss Manners”)

 

“Glendon’s analysis has historical depth and ideological subtlety:  she recognizes both the strengths and the weaknesses of the past and states that the number of lawyers matters less than what those lawyers do.”

                        --Publishers Weekly

 

“One of the most accessible and best-written books about the legal profession in the last few years.”

                        --David Luban, New York Times Book Review