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Building A Better Lawyer Discipline System: The Queensland Experience, Leslie Levin
Building A Better Lawyer Discipline System: The Queensland Experience, Leslie Levin
Leslie C. Levin
In many jurisdictions, lawyer-run discipline systems are inefficient, overly lenient and insufficiently responsive to consumer's concerns. Queensland's Legal Profession Act 2004 (Qld) breaks away from that model by moving lawyer discipline out of lawyers' professional associations and into an independent agency. It articulates a decidedly consumer-oriented approach to lawyer discipline and gives Queensland's new Legal Services Commissioner the power to investigate and prosecute all discipline complaints. This article looks at Queensland's recent reforms, and considers how well the new system is meeting its twin goals of consumer protection and traditional lawyer discipline. Using interviews and other data, the article identifies …
How Social Hierarchies Within The Personal Injury Bar Affect Case Screening Decisions, Mary Nell Trautner
How Social Hierarchies Within The Personal Injury Bar Affect Case Screening Decisions, Mary Nell Trautner
NYLS Law Review
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How The Spider Catches The Fly: Referral Networks In The Plaintiffs’ Personal Injury Bar, Sara Parikh
How The Spider Catches The Fly: Referral Networks In The Plaintiffs’ Personal Injury Bar, Sara Parikh
NYLS Law Review
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Nineteenth Century Visions Of A Twenty-First Century Bar: Were Dickens’S Expectations For Lawyers Too Great?, Randy Lee
Randy Lee
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