Lawyers, the State and the Market

GERARD HANLON is Lecturer in Management at the Management Centre, King's College, University of London. He is author of The Commercialisation of Accountancy (Macmillan, 1994)

• The Changing Nature of Professionalism Legal Professionals and the Market : Historic Analysis Corporate Clients and Professional Servants The Structure of Law Firms Creating Today's Lawyer Commercialised Professionalism and Class Professionalism Revisited

'Well laid-out, carefully constructed, and ought to be read by anyone with an interest in the profession, not least practising solicitors themselves...Hanlon's is a book witht the capacity to make one question views that are long-held but hardly thought out...[it] may have an enduring role in helping us understand the changes we will witness.' - Journal of Law and Society