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Legal Ethics and Professional Responsibility

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2019

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Mandatory Legal Malpractice Insurance: Exposing Lawyers' Blind Spots, Susan S. Fortney Sep 2019

Mandatory Legal Malpractice Insurance: Exposing Lawyers' Blind Spots, Susan S. Fortney

Susan S. Fortney

The legal landscape for lawyers’ professional liability in the United States is changing. In 2018, Idaho implemented a new rule requiring that lawyers carry legal malpractice insurance. The adoption of the Idaho rule was the first move in forty years by a state to require legal malpractice insurance since Oregon mandated lawyer participation in a malpractice insurance regime. Over the last two years, a few states have considered whether their jurisdictions should join Oregon and Idaho in requiring malpractice insurance for lawyers in private practice. To help inform the discussion, the article examines different positions taken in the debate on …

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Ethics 20/20 Successfully Achieved Its Mission: It "Protected, Preserved, And Maintained", James E. Moliterno Aug 2019

Ethics 20/20 Successfully Achieved Its Mission: It "Protected, Preserved, And Maintained", James E. Moliterno

James E. Moliterno

The legal profession tends to look inward and backward when faced with crisis and uncertainty. The legal profession could make greater advances by looking outward and forward to find in society and culture the causes of and connections with the legal profession’s crises. Doing so would allow the profession to grow with society, solve problems with rather than against the flow of society, and be more attuned to the society the profession claims to serve.

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Rise Of The Robot Lawyers?, Milan Markovic Jul 2019

Rise Of The Robot Lawyers?, Milan Markovic

Milan Markovic

The advent of artificial intelligence has provoked considerable speculation about the future of the American workforce, including highly educated professionals such as lawyers and doctors. Although most commentators are alarmed by the prospect of intelligent machines displacing millions of workers, this is not so with respect to the legal sector. Media accounts and some legal scholars envision a future where intelligent machines perform the bulk of legal work, and legal services are less expensive and more accessible. This future is purportedly at hand as lawyers struggle to compete with technologically savvy alternative legal service providers.

This Article challenges the notion …

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International Developments And Their Impact On U.S. Lawyer Regulation, Laurel S. Terry Dec 2018

International Developments And Their Impact On U.S. Lawyer Regulation, Laurel S. Terry

Laurel S. Terry

This 8-page document was the CLE Handout for my Akron Law School Miller Becker Center for Professional Responsibility Lecture entitled "International Developments, International Developments, and their Impact on U.S. Legal Ethics and Lawyer Regulation."  It uses the "who-what-when-where-why-and-how" framework that Steve Mark, Tahlia Gordon and I used in our 2012 article entitled Trends and Challenges in Lawyer Regulation: The Impact of Globalization and Technology (and that I later used in ICLR, NOBC, and AALS handouts).  This updated version cites developments through March 2019.  Each of the “who-what-when-where-why-and-how” to regulate categories contains a section describing global developments, followed by one or …

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Anti-Money Laundering (Aml) Legal Profession Related Resources (Updated March 2019), Laurel S. Terry Dec 2018

Anti-Money Laundering (Aml) Legal Profession Related Resources (Updated March 2019), Laurel S. Terry

Laurel S. Terry

This document is a bibliography of resources related to anti-money laundering (AML) initiatives related to lawyers and the legal profession.  This document is an updated version of the document that originally was prepared for the panel on Lawyers and Anti-Money Laundering and Terrorist Finance Initiatives at the Nov. 2018, APRL/LSEW Conference entitled Crisscrossing the Pond: Transatlantic Issues in Legal Ethics and Law Firm Regulation.

This Resources document contains links to U.S., U.K, EU, Canadian, and Australian legal profession-AML resources, as well as links to FATF webpages and documents that include the FATF Mutual Evaluations page, the 2008 and 2019 …

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