Divorce Lawyers and Their Clients

Austin Sarat is the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence & Political Science, and Chair of the Department of Law, Jurisprudence and Social Thought at Amherst College. He has co-authored many previous works on law, most recently The Rhetoric of Law, Law's Violence, and Sitting in Judgment: The Sentencing of White Collar Criminals. William L. F. Felstiner is Professor in the Law and Society Program at the University of California, Santa Barbara and Distinguished Research Professor of Law at the University of Wales College of Cardiff.

1. Introduction:
2. Reconstructing the Past, Imagining the Future: Defining the Domain of Relevance in Lawyer-Client Interaction:
3. Negotiating "Realism" and Responsibility in Lawyer-Client Interactions:
4. Law Talk in the Divorce Lawyer's Office:
5. From Adversariness to Resolution: Lawyers, Clients, and the World of Deals:
6. Conclusion:
Notes
References
Index