We Don't Care about What Happened, We Only Care about What Is Going to Happen: Lawyer-Client Negotiations of Reality
- 1 June 1979
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Social Problems
- Vol. 26 (5) , 599-610
- https://doi.org/10.2307/800044
Abstract
When a person in trouble seeks help from a professional, one of the first tasks is to define the situation. A definition includes a description of whKeywords
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