Inverted Thinking About Law As A Profession Or Business Thomas Morgan Summary

Thomas D. Morgan wrote “Inverted Thinking about Law as a Profession or Business” from Journal of The Professional Lawyer. The purpose of this article is to discuss whether the practice of law should be seen as a business or profession. This article lays out the differences in meaning to business and profession as it applies to the practice. It also assesses the type of work lawyers do and the personal characteristics involved to practice. The author supports his ideas as well as his argument, by discussing each element of law as a business or profession to support his opinion. The remainder of this essay will analyze the method the author uses to organize his article, as well as further explaining the content.

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This article does not have a bibliography, instead it has footnotes throughout each page. The article goes into further detail in the footnotes about specific references mentioned, which are marked with a number that correspond with its’ explanation. Morgan is referencing important people, events, other articles, and places that pertain to the article’s content. The author neatly separates each topic with headings and subheadings and discusses each aspect of his argument as to whether the practice of law is a business or profession. For example: “III. Problems Lawyers Have Thinking about Professionalism Today” as a heading (Morgan 122). As a subheading: “Increased Number of Practitioners” (Morgan 123). The author uses this form of writing style to organize and clearly display each element of the article for the reader to better understand its’

The author also references another book he has written in the introduction. He states: “In my book The Vanishing American Lawyer, I declared: ‘Law in America is not a profession—and that’s a good thing.’ I intended the statement to be provocative, but some responders found it troubling.” (Morgan 115). Morgan discloses that he is not new to writing or to the topic; he has published previous literature about lawyers. He is also critical of his own field in the sense that he leaves room for debate in whether law is a profession or a