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International Journal of Law, Policy and the Family 1995 9(3):286-310; doi:10.1093/lawfam/9.3.286
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‘THE PASSENGER DECIDES ON THE DESTINATION AND I DECIDE ON THE ROUTE’: ARE DIVORCE LAWYERS ‘EXPENSIVE CAB DRIVERS?’

LYNN MATHER*, RICHARD J. MAIMAN** and CRAIG A. MCEWEN***

* Dartmouth College. This research has been supported by grants SES-8910625, SES-8910649, and SES-8911653 from the Law and Social Sciences Division of the National Science Foundation. The points of view represented here are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the position of the National Science Foundation. Special thanks are due to Kathleen O'Neil and Allison Thoreson for their able research assistance and to the Rockefeller Center at Dartmouth for its generous support. An earlier version was presented at the Third European Conference on Legal Professions, Rouen, France, in July 1994.
** University of Southern Maine. This research has been supported by grants SES-8910625, SES-8910649, and SES-8911653 from the Law and Social Sciences Division of the National Science Foundation. The points of view represented here are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the position of the National Science Foundation. Special thanks are due to Kathleen O'Neil and Allison Thoreson for their able research assistance and to the Rockefeller Center at Dartmouth for its generous support. An earlier version was presented at the Third European Conference on Legal Professions, Rouen, France, in July 1994.
*** Bowdoin College. This research has been supported by grants SES-8910625, SES-8910649, and SES-8911653 from the Law and Social Sciences Division of the National Science Foundation. The points of view represented here are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the position of the National Science Foundation. Special thanks are due to Kathleen O'Neil and Allison Thoreson for their able research assistance and to the Rockefeller Center at Dartmouth for its generous support. An earlier version was presented at the Third European Conference on Legal Professions, Rouen, France, in July 1994.

This article reports on divorce lawyers' descriptions of their interactions with clients, focusing on three types of decisions common to divorce cases: whether to accept a potential client, whether and how much attention to pay to the client's emotional needs, and how to persuade a client to accept an appropriate case outcome. The lawyers' reports reveal interesting variation in how they approach such decisions. However, most of the lawyers make clear that they do not regard the lawyer-client relationship as one between equals, and they describe a variety of tactics that they employ to maintain control over the client and the case.


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