List of top 10 most-cited legal articles in legal ethics and legal profession, according to Saphiro in the United States

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Below is the ranking of the top 10 most-cited articles of all time to the speciality, according to “The most-cited law review articles of all time”, by Fred R. Shapiro and Michelle Pearse, published in the Michigan Law Review and available at ww.michiganlawreview.org/assets/pdfs/110/8/Shapiro_and_Pearse.pdf:

1. 1137 Owen M. Fiss, Against Settlement, 93 Yale L.J. 1073 (1984).
2. 677 Harry T. Edwards, The Growing Disjunction between Legal Education and the Legal Profession, 91 Mich. L.
Rev. 34 (1992).
3. 594 Judith Resnik, Managerial Judges, 96 Harv. L. Rev. 374 (1982).
4. 561 Charles Fried, The Lawyer as Friend: The Moral Foundations of the Lawyer-Client Relation, 85 Yale
L.J. 1060 (1976).
5. 483 Harold D. Lasswell & Myres S. McDougal, Legal Education and Public Policy: Professional Training in
the Public Interest, 52 Yale L.J. 203 (1943).
6. 461 Monroe H. Freedman, Professional Responsibility of the Criminal Defense Lawyer: The Three Hardest
Questions, 64 Mich. L. Rev. 1469 (1966).
7. 425 William H. Simon, Ethical Discretion in Lawyering, 101 Harv. L. Rev. 1083 (1988).
8. 386 William H. Simon, The Ideology of Advocacy: Procedural Justice and Professional Ethics, 1978 Wis.
L. Rev. 29 (1978).
9. 360 Robert W. Gordon, The Independence of Lawyers, 68 B.U. L. Rev. 1 (1988).
10. 351 Deborah L. Rhode, Ethical Perspectives on Legal Practice, 37 Stan. L. Rev. 589 (1985).

Note: The column of numbers on the left is the ranking within the subject area. The second
column is the total number of citations in HeinOnline as of November 2011.