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| Author: | Kuhn, T. |
| Title: | Positioning lawyers: Discursive resources, professional ethics and identification |
| Journal: | Organization
2009 : SEP, VOL. 16:5, p. 681-704 |
| Index terms: | USA ethics lawyers |
| Freeterms: | professional identity identification discourse |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | Critics argue that lawyers' subject positions make them confederates to corporate domination. Yet, work on subject position formation frequently ignores either identifications with particular organizations (herein as: orgs.) or the various discourses circulating around those orgs. In order to addressing this issue, junior corporate attorneys at a large U.S. law firm are asked to reflect on the accusation of being a 'corporate lackey'. Based on responses, there are four forms of discursive resource that indicate varied sources of identification. It is shown that the discursive resources reinforced one another in a 'reticulated' fashion: conditioned by encompassing discourses of managerialism and legal professionalism, they supported a specific mode of subjectivation. Hence, it is argued for the need to contextualize studies of professionals in multiple discourses etc. |
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