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61 Brook. L. Rev. 889 (1995)
Deconstructing Reconstructive Poverty Law: Practice-Based Critique of the Storytelling Aspects of the Theoretics of Practice Movement

handle is hein.journals/brklr61 and id is 899 raw text is: DECONSTRUCTING RECONSTRUCTIVE POVERTY LAW: PRACTICE-BASED CRITIQUE OF THE STORYTELLING ASPECTS OF THE THEORETICS OF PRACTICE MOVEMENT' Cathy Lesser Mansfield Introduction .................................. 890 I. Lawyer Interpretation and Displacement of Client Story ............................ 893 A. Functional Storytelling and Theoretical Assumptions-Why Clients Tell Us Their Stories .................. 893 B. The Essence of Legal Paradigm .......... 897 1. Utilitarian Control of Story .......... 898 2. Ownership of Story ................ 906 3. Images of Dependence and Inferiority in Story ......................... 908 4. Normative Content of Story: When Bad Things Happen to Bad People .... 914 C. Earning the Right to Take Utilitarian Control of Story and Situational Power Over the Client ................. 918 * © 1995 Cathy Lesser Mansfield. All Rights Reserved. This is a reference to Anthony V. Alfieri, Reconstructive Poverty Law Practice: Learning Lessons of Client Narrative, 100 YALE L.J. 2107 (1991). For other critiques of the theoretics of practice movement see Robert D. Dinerstein, A Meditation on the Theoretics of Practice, 43 HASTINGS L.T. 971 (1992); Binny iller, Give Them Back Their Lives: Recognizing Client Narrative in Cae Theory, 93 MICa. L. REV. 485 (1994); Paul R. Tremblay, A Tragic VIew of Poverty Law Practice, 1 D. C. L. REV. 123 (1992). t This Article was researched and written while I was an Associate Profeasor of Law at Washburn University School of Law, Topeka, Kansas. I would like to thank various members of the Washburn School of Law faculty for their support, especially Bill Rich and Nina Tarr; the University itself for financial support; the law firm of Lewis and Roca, in Phoenix, Arizona, for providing me with office space in which to work; Marianne Deagle and Joe Booth for providing research assistance; Ed Mansfield, Cheryl lcissh and Wendy Axton for giving support and help with the family while I worked on this Article; Peter Margulieq, and other members of the St. Thomas University School of Law faculty for brief but potent encouragement; and Julie Kowitz for incisive editing.