Anthony Kronman describes a spiritual crisis affecting the
American legal profession, and attributes it to the collapse of
what he calls the ideal of the lawyer-statesman: a set of values
that prizes good judgment above technical competence and encourages
a public-spirited devotion to the law.
For nearly two centuries, Kronman argues, the aspirations of
American lawyers were shaped by their allegiance to a distinctive
ideal of professional excellence. In the last generation, however,
this ideal has failed, undermining the identity of lawyers as a
group and making it unclear to those in the profession what it
means for them personally to have chosen a life in the law.
A variety of factors have contributed to the declining prestige
of prudence and public-spiritedness within the legal profession.
Partly, Kronman asserts, it is the result of the triumph, in legal
thought, of a counterideal that denigrates the importance of wisdom
and character as professional virtues. Partly, it is due to an
array of institutional forces, including the explosive growth of
the country's leading law firms and the bureaucratization of our
courts. "The Lost Lawyer" examines each of these developments and
illuminates their common tendency to compromise the values from
which the ideal of the lawyer-statesman draws strength. It is the
most important critique of the American legal profession in some
time, and an an enduring restatement of its ideals.
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