Lawyers, Networks and Progressive Social Change

Jacqueline Kinghan is Senior Lecturer in Law and Social Justice at Newcastle University Law School, UK.

• 1. Introduction 2. The Context and Controversies of Progressive Lawyering The Context of Progressive Lawyering Cause Lawyering and Legal Mobilisation The Controversies of Progressive Lawyering Conclusions 3. Identifying Progressive LawyersNarrative Methodology Reflexivity and Elite Interviewing Identifying Areas of Practice Ethnography Fieldwork Interviews: Research Participant Selection Other Data Sources and Data Analysis Contested Labelling of Progressive Legal Identity Conclusions 4. Pathways to Law The Legal Profession and Social Class Shared Beginnings Shared Left Values Shared Turning Points Collective Identity: Conclusions 5. Tools for Change Legal Advice and Representation Strategic Litigation Policy Work and Campaigning Conclusions 6. Educating Progressive Lawyers An Autoethnographic Perspective on Legal Education Social Alienation at Law School Bringing US Experience Home A Formative UK Experience Conclusions 7. Professional Legal Ethics and the Progressive Social Self Resolute Positions Constrained Positions Conflict and Contestation Conclusions 8. Sustaining Progressive Lawyering Funding and Burnout Passion and Persistence Knowledge and Experience Barristers and Excellence Social Mobility and Access Conclusions 9. Lawyers, Networks and the Future of Progressive Lawyering: ‘This Work Needs to be Done’ Conceptualising a Progressive Lawyering Movement A Progressive Lawyering Future Appendix One: Table of Narrative Interviews Appendix Two: Narrative Interview Question Guide

Differences between lawyers identified as radical, cause or progressive can be difficult to discern. It is, however, interesting to explore possible distinctions. This book brings a new perspective to that task.