ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. The book presents case studies of original empirical and archival research which explores a series of actors positioned on the different edges of the legal profession in England and Wales, as well as one example from Canada. The case-studies emphasize the importance of field location in shaping the capacity of different individuals and organizations to deploy strategies of professionalization or challenge the institutional logics of the field. The book highlights the influence of large corporate law firms in laying down a normative or expected path into the profession and the discomfort faced by those outsider students who have not been able to follow this path. Thus, Pivot lawyers in Vancouver exert agency in consciously rejecting the paradigmatic conceptions of mainstream corporate law to which they have been exposed at elite Law School.
