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Fall from Grace or Business as Usual? A Retrospective Look at Lawyers on Wall Street and Main Street

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 December 2018

John M. Conley  and
Scott Baker
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Law & Social Inquiry , Volume 30 , Issue 4 , Fall 2005 , pp. 783 - 821
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Copyright © American Bar Foundation, 2005 

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