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Index alienation, 81–87 American Bar Association (ABA), 9, 11, 54, 87–88 American Lawyer, 75, 109, 114 Amicus Attorney, 130–31 Arendt, Hannah, 98 associates, 71–89 affects of alienation on, 81–87 lack of mentoring of, 78, 88 pressure of billable hours on, 74, 76–77 Bachman, Walt, 136 Bailey, F. Lee, 12 Baird, Zoe, 123 BAR/BRI program, 58–59 bar exam, 21–22, 24–26, 53–69 alternatives to, 68–69 exclusion of “undesirables” and, 54, 65 pass rates for, 62–63 reciprocity and, 65–66 reforming, 68–69 Bar Examiner, 54 Barthes, Roland, 26 Baudrillard, Jean, 129 billable hours, 15, 74, 76–77, 84–85, 87–88 billing software, 84–85, 125–28 Black, Roy, 13 Breyer, Stephen, 9 Bush, George W., 12 Calabresi, Guido, 122 case method of teaching, 38–43 Circuit City, 94 Clinton, William Jefferson, 12, 123 Cochran, Johnny, 13 colonization, 141 Coming Up for Air (Orwell), 18 constructive discharge, 101 coping mechanisms, 23, 140–44 corporate law, 92–95, 100–111 Crain’s Chicago Business, 120 “A Day in the Life of a Corporate Law Associate,” 110 The Death of Common Sense, 123 The Death of Ivan Ilych (Tolstoy), 48 Dershowitz, Alan, 12, 13, 41 “A Disgraceful Affair” (Dostoevsky) 55 Dostoevsky, Fyodor, 55 Ehrenreich, Barbara, 56 Eichmann, Adolph, 97–98 Enron, 12–14, 75, 85–86, 97, 109 Ernst & Young, 80 The Firm (Grisham), 92 Forster, E. M., 129 Frank, Jerome, 41 Freud, Sigmund, 114–15 Gates, Bill, 129 Gauguin, Paul, 117 The Grapes of Wrath (Steinbeck), 137–38 Greedy Associates (website), 92 Grisham, John, 92 Hart, H. L. A., 123 Harvard Law School, 39 Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 25, 54 Hubbell, Webb, 12, 126 Illinois Revised Statutes, 122 Illinois Rules of Professional Conduct, 73 Inc. Magazine, 118 International Journal of Law and Psychiatry, 32 Jackson, Shirley, 55 Jaspers, Karl, 131 Kafka, Franz, 123 Keating, Charles, 14 Kennedy, Duncan, 49 Kennedy Smith, William, 13 King, Rodney, 13 Kinoy, Arthur, 138–39 Kirkland & Ellis, 97 Klein, Stephen, 62 Kmart Corporation, 93–94 Kronman, Anthony, 14 Kurson, Robert, 16 lack of consortium, 104 Langdell, Christopher Columbus, 39–40 law firm practice, 71–89, 91–111 alienation in, 81–87 associates in, 71–89 competition and, 79–81 institutional clients and, 92–95, 100–111 moral indifference and, 95–100, 143–44 partnerships and, 76–80 reforming, 87–89, 136–39 structure of, 76, 79–81 technology and, 23, 113–32 transformation of into a business, 22, 72–75, 91–94 law profession, current crisis in, 14–15 hypercomplexity of, 123 “law-firming” of, 22–23 overcrowding in, 11 overproduction of, 122 law school, 29–51 case method of teaching in, 38–43 faculty-student relations, 43–45 grading, 44–45, 51 loss of social conscience in, 45–50 reforming, 50–51 Socratic method of teaching in, 24, 33–36, 50 student debt and, 10, 11, 46 student unhappiness and, 21, 29–32 lawyers, billable hours and, 15, 74, 76–77, 84–85, 87–88 coping mechanisms used by, 23, 140–44 public opinion of, 11–14, 81 salaries, 10, 11, 88 television depictions of, 12–13, 81 unhappiness of, 9–10, 16–23 Le Bon, Gustav, 97 Levitt, Arthur, 109 Liman, Arthur, 138, 139 Lincoln, Abraham, 54, 91 Linowitz, Sol, 14 “The Lottery” (Jackson), 55–56 The Machine Stops (Forster), 129–30 Manning, Bayless, 124 Marcuse, Herbert, 25 Marx, Karl, 56, 64, 72, 73 concept of alienation, 81–87 Menendez brothers, 12, 13 mentoring, 78, 88 Merton, Robert, 98 Milgram, Stanley, 98 Mill, John Stuart, 113 Montaigne, Michel de, 143 Multistate Bar Exam (MBE), 59–62, 69 Multistate Performance Test (MPT), 61 Mumford, Lewis, 128, 132 Nader, Ralph, 135 National Association of Public Interest Lawyers, 10 New York Law Journal, 9 Nixon, Richard, 12 O’Connor, Sandra Day, 9 Orwell, George, 18 The Paper Chase, 37, 43 Paradox of Technology, 113–14, 129–30 partnerships, 76–80 Pitney Bowes, 117–18 PMBR program, 58 private practice, 22, 71 The Problem of Our Laws (Kafka), 123–24 pro bono work, 80, 88, 142 professionalism, 14–15 rainmakers, 79 reforms, 87–89, 130–32, 136–38 bar exam and, 68–69 law school and, 50–51 Rehnquist, William, 76 Reisman, David, 84 The Remains of the Day (Ishiguro), 141–42 Rhode, Deborah, 67 Rogers & Wells, 79 The Rules of Professional Responsibility, 96, 99–100 162 / Index Sanson, Henri, 49, 96 savings and loan scandal, 12–14, 75...