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Legal Ethics and Professional Responsibility

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Laurel S. Terry

2014

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Admitting Foreign-Trained Lawyers In States Other Than New York: Why It Matters, Laurel S. Terry Nov 2014

Admitting Foreign-Trained Lawyers In States Other Than New York: Why It Matters, Laurel S. Terry

Laurel S. Terry

n 2014, the Conference of Chief Justices adopted Resolution 11: In Support of the Framework Created by the State Bar of Georgia and the Georgia Supreme Court to Address Issues Arising from Legal Market Globalization and Cross-Border Legal Practice. This Framework is often referred to as the “State Toolkit.” 

This article explains what the State Toolkit is, why it exists, and how each state can use the Toolkit to address issues related to foreign lawyers inbound to their jurisdiction. This section of the article includes statistics that show the degree to which globalization affects all U.S. states and the likelihood …

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Regulatory Objectives Presentation Slides: 2014 Hofstra Lichtenstein Talk By Laurel Terry, Laurel S. Terry Dec 2013

Regulatory Objectives Presentation Slides: 2014 Hofstra Lichtenstein Talk By Laurel Terry, Laurel S. Terry

Laurel S. Terry

These slides address the topic of regulatory objectives. They were based on these articles:

Laurel S. Terry, Why Your Jurisdiction Should Consider Jumping On The Regulatory Objectives Bandwagon, 22(1) Prof. L. 28 (Dec. 2013) (9-page article plus footnotes);

Laurel S. Terry, Steve Mark, Tahlia Gordon, Adopting Regulatory Objectives for the Legal Profession, 80 Fordham L. Rev. 2685 (2012) (lengthy article with an appendix containing examples from numerous jurisdictions and comparison tables)

See https://works.bepress.com/laurel_terry/55/ and https://works.bepress.com/laurel_terry/11/.

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Globalization And The Aba Commission On Ethics 20/20: Reflections On Missed Opportunities And The Road Not Taken, Laurel S. Terry Dec 2013

Globalization And The Aba Commission On Ethics 20/20: Reflections On Missed Opportunities And The Road Not Taken, Laurel S. Terry

Laurel S. Terry

The ABA Commission on Ethics 20/20 was established in order to “perform a thorough review of the ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct and the U.S. system of lawyer regulation in the context of advances in technology and global legal practice developments.” The thesis of this article is that the Commission was much more successful with the “technology” aspect of its work than it was with the globalization aspect of its work. This article offers an explanation for these differing levels of success and identifies an alternative path the Commission might have taken that might have led to greater success …

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