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The Status of Legal Professionalism at the Close of the Twentieth Century: Chicago Lawyers and Urban Lawyers

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Carroll Seron
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Law & Social Inquiry , Volume 32 , Issue 2 , Spring 2007 , pp. 581 - 607
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Copyright © American Bar Foundation, 2007 

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