REBELLIOUS LAWYERING - ONE CHICANOS VISION OF PROGRESSIVE LAW PRACTICE - LOPEZ,GP

In Rebellious Lawyering: One Chicano's Vision of Progressive Law Pract ice, Gerald Lopez portrays an alternative vision of how lawyers can be st help poor clients. Using a blend of exposition and storytelling, Lo pez critiques traditional civil rights and poverty lawyers, and advoca tes nonhierarchical collaboration between clients and attorneys with a n eye toward political mobilization rather than litigation. Professor Southworth, in her review essay Taking the Lawyer Out of Progressive L awyering, faults Lopez for failing to provide a complete and accurate picture of both the process and the substance of lawyering for the poo r. She contends that Lopez's model misses the ways in which lawyers ca n facilitate clients' assertion of control, and underemphasizes the sk ills lawyers can and should offer to clients. Southworth describes a b road range of activities that lawyers are performing for poor clients today, including counseling and transactional work for community organ izations and small businesses.