Table of Contents

1. Introduction

2. The Context and Controversies of Progressive Lawyering
The Context of Progressive Lawyering
Cause Lawyering and Legal Mobilisation
The Controversies of Progressive Lawyering
Conclusions

3. Identifying Progressive Lawyers
Narrative Methodology
Reflexivity and Elite Interviewing
Identifying Areas of Practice
Ethnography
Fieldwork Interviews: Research Participant Selection
Other Data Sources and Data Analysis
Contested Labelling of Progressive Legal Identity
Conclusions

4. Pathways to Law
The Legal Profession and Social Class
Shared Beginnings
Shared Left Values
Shared Turning Points
Collective Identity: Conclusions

5. Tools for Change
Legal Advice and Representation
Strategic Litigation
Policy Work and Campaigning
Conclusions
6. Educating Progressive Lawyers
An Autoethnographic Perspective on Legal Education
Social Alienation at Law School
Bringing US Experience Home
A Formative UK Experience
Conclusions

7. Professional Legal Ethics and the Progressive Social Self
Resolute Positions
Constrained Positions
Conflict and Contestation
Conclusions

8. Sustaining Progressive Lawyering
Funding and Burnout
Passion and Persistence
Knowledge and Experience
Barristers and Excellence
Social Mobility and Access
Conclusions

9. Lawyers, Networks and the Future of Progressive Lawyering: ‘This Work Needs to be Done’
Conceptualising a Progressive Lawyering Movement
A Progressive Lawyering Future
Appendix One: Table of Narrative Interviews
Appendix Two: Narrative Interview Question Guide

Promotional Information

Written by a lawyer who works at the intersection of legal education and practice in access to justice and human rights, this book explores how, and why, lawyers pursue social change.

About the Author

Jacqueline Kinghan is Senior Lecturer in Law and Social Justice at Newcastle University Law School, UK.

Reviews

Differences between lawyers identified as radical, cause or progressive can be difficult to discern. It is, however, interesting to explore possible distinctions. This book brings a new perspective to that task.
*Frontiers of Socio-Legal Studies*

Lawyers, Networks and Progressive Social Change is a welcome and long overdue study of progressive legal practice in the UK
*Modern Law Review*