Opposition or cooperation: the relationships between lawyers and non-lawyer professionals in the US, 1999–2008

Government lawyers: technicians, policy shapers and organisational brakes

“…Other research suggests that professionals working in bureaucracies can feel a sense of role conflict (Abbott 1981(Abbott , 1986Gorman and Sandefur, 2011). More generally, there have also been calls to move the focus of research away from assumptions about conflict and competition in order to pay more attention to collaboration or co-operation between lawyers and others in the workplace (Kim, 2013). When lawyers work alongside non-lawyers research has focused on what distinguishes them from others by emphasising the specialised knowledge they possess, their use of technical vocabulary, their role as conceptive ideologists of the middle classes and experience of the matters over which they are dealing (Cain, 1979).…”