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Legal Malpractice: A Calculus For Reform, Fredrick W. Huszagh, Donald W. Molloy
Legal Malpractice: A Calculus For Reform, Fredrick W. Huszagh, Donald W. Molloy
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Our most distinguished professions do not maintain congruency between membership standards and actual performance. This deficiency is manifest; spiraling malpractice litigation witnesses a substantial increase in both the number of suits and the amount of recovery. Neither the professions nor public can long endure this trend. Governmental and possibly lay intervention in profession affairs is imminent unless the professions move decisively to understand better the dynamics of malpractice and do excise its causes. This article examines professional malpractice and existing responses to it, relates various cases in a calculus that can be employed to anticipate systemic patterns of malpractice, and …
New Directions..., Thomas Ehrlich
The Unpopularity Of Lawyers In America, Jon R. Waltz
The Unpopularity Of Lawyers In America, Jon R. Waltz
Cleveland State Law Review
What's wrong with us lawyers? Mainly, it is that the worst among us pose for our portrait, so that we are viewed as avaricious and egomaniacal, all flair and no substance, seeking and wielding power without having the strength of character to wield it well. Lost to the public is the portrait of most lawyers, the sorts of lawyers that I hope this University produces. They are quiet people who come to the law, and stay with it, because they know that the law's power lets them help people make the best of a trying world.