Where is the "Quality Movement" in Law Practice?

Authors

William H. Simon, Columbia Law SchoolFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2012

Abstract

The "Quality Movement" that originated in industrial production and has since influenced the professions prescribes standardized work, root cause analysis of errors, peer review, and performance measurement. While these reforms have transformed medicine and some other professions, their influence has lagged in the legal profession. This Essay reviews the limited progress of the reforms in law and assesses the cultural, institutional, and doctrinal obstacles they face.

Disciplines

Law | Legal Profession

Comments

Copyright 2018 by The Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System; Reprinted by the permission of the Wisconsin Law Review.

Recommended Citation

William H. Simon, Where is the "Quality Movement" in Law Practice?, 2012 Wis. L. Rev. 387 (2012).
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