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In Mechanisms and Consequences of Professional Marginality: The Case of Poverty Lawyers Revisited. Law & Social Inquiry, Marina Zaloznaya and Laura Beth Nielsen explore the consequences of the professional marginality of legal aid practice. The authors’ case study is based on thirty-five in-depth interviews of practicing poverty lawyers and legal interns in Chicago. They detail the types, mechanisms and consequences of legal aid. After interviews were completed, they coded their data to determine the aspects of legal practice that caused lawyers anxiety and changed their understandings of professionalism. The authors’ study is designed according to Jack Katz’s Poor People’s Lawyers in Transition, which is an ethnographic analysis of the evolution of the Chicago legal aid professional world in the 1960s and 1970s. In order to build their study on the strain and contradiction of working in legal aid, the authors use the concept of marginalization to complement Katz’s notion of routinization. Their concept of marginalization is both material and symbolic. Legal aid lawyers work in ill-equipped offices with …show more content…

Firstly, attorneys’ ideological commitment declines as they become skeptical about the possibility of social change. They are unable to engage with individual cases and their victories do not successfully challenge the status quo. As such, they deal with ideological marginality. They also experience task marginality because the lack of administrative assistance makes their work is difficult to complete. Thirdly, they experience material marginality because they are compensated less than other lawyers. Finally, they experience status marginality because their non-legal-aid colleagues marginalize them as if they were less qualified. Clients themselves are disrespectful towards

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However, Making Systems of Privilege Visible is not the only collaborative writing done by Wildman and Davis. They published a novel titled Privilege Revealed: How Invisible Preference Undermines America in 1996, which won the Gustavus Myers Center for Human Right’s Outstanding Book Award in 1997. It focuses on how many Americans who advocate for a merit-based, race-free society do not acknowledge the invisible systems of privilege that are benefiting them more and more everyday, just like the advocating theme of their other

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At first viewing of the documentary "Gideon's Army.' * you may become overwhelmed by the dire situation of the criminal justice system in the South, specifically with regard to the poorer and less educated population. To observe how stressed the public defenders are, how tapped the resources, and how desperate the defendants, you struggle with the notion that there may not be anything that can be done and it's too big a problem to overcome. But delving into the professional, and, at times, personal life of Travis Williams, a public defender in Georgia, you feel determination and hope. Williams advocates for each client with passion and diligence.

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David Feige’s Indefensible: One Lawyer’s Journey nto the Inferno of American Justice invites people from all walks of life to a second hand experience of the criminal justice system hard at work. What is most interesting about Feige’s work is its distinct presentation of the life of a public defender in the South Bronx. Instead of simply detailing out his experiences as a public defender, Feige takes it a step further and includes the experiences of his clients. Without the personal relationships that he carefully constructs with each of his defendants, Feige would not be able to argue that the criminal justice system is flimsy at best, decisions always riding on either the judge’s personal attitudes or the clients propensity towards plea bargaining.

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Like “Bartleby,” Johnson’s text interrogates the dehumanizing interpersonal dynamics that exist between a figure invested with established institutional authority and an individual trapped in an abject condition of enforced servitude. It is important, however, to recognize that while the lawyer’s position of dominance is largely limited to the financial and occupational sphereit is no coincidence, after all, that the narrative positions itself within the confines of Wall StreetMoses Green, in contrast, possesses virtually unlimited control over all aspects of his slave’s existence. The lawyer hires Bartleby, but Green buys Mingo, with “Mexican coin” (Johnson 3). Thus, although Green’s authority similarly arises from an exploitative system of property and human relationsthat is, the totalitarian system of Black slaverythe principles of ownership undergirding his slaveholding status render him not so much a master as a godlike figure of near-divine authority: Mingo is not just his slave, his chattel, but his artistic creation, a “rude chump of foreign clay” (Johnson 5) who owes not merely his material livelihood, but his very state of existence, to Moses

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Factors that contribute to privilege, power, and oppression include who has power, how is that power being used, and what social groups are being affected. This year I began working in Target’s return department where employees are supposed to, what feels like stereotyping, call out shady and weird-acting people who are most often appearing to be houseless or on drugs. Because of certain types of individuals that frequent our story in Janzen Beach, we do not return certain products without proof of purchase. However, one day we made an exception for on customer and did not for another by a manager. Later in the day I confronted the manager and expressed my frustrations that our personal biases were getting in the way of helping our customers equally and expressed that certain people or groups are less likely to express their frustrations or ask for a manager when they are denied a return in comparison to others.

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