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A Tribute To Professor Dan Markel, Keith L. Savino
A Tribute To Professor Dan Markel, Keith L. Savino
Florida State University Law Review
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Dan Markel's Premature Death Cements His Uncompromising Legacy, Ryan Wechsler
Dan Markel's Premature Death Cements His Uncompromising Legacy, Ryan Wechsler
Florida State University Law Review
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Losing Friends, Garrick Pursley
Losing Friends, Garrick Pursley
Florida State University Law Review
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The Cost Of Avoidance: Pluralism, Neutrality, And The Foundations Of Modern Legal Ethics, Melissa Mortazavi
The Cost Of Avoidance: Pluralism, Neutrality, And The Foundations Of Modern Legal Ethics, Melissa Mortazavi
Florida State University Law Review
This Article offers an answer to key questions in modern American legal ethics: when and why did the legal profession stop talking about professional conduct in moral terms? Mining the history of current rules governing lawyer conduct, this Article reveals that while the 1969 Model Code of Professional Responsibility sought to revolutionize legal ethics by creating a professional code that was more transparent, democratized, and less hierarchical than the preceding 1908 Canons of Legal Ethics, that effort also excised a moral understanding of lawyering in order to facilitate a particular understanding of pluralism.
The drafters of the 1969 Model Code …
What's New About The New Normal: The Evolving Market For New Lawyers In The 21st Century, Bernard A. Burk
What's New About The New Normal: The Evolving Market For New Lawyers In The 21st Century, Bernard A. Burk
Florida State University Law Review
Everyone agrees that job prospects for many new law graduates have been poor for the last several years; there is rather less consensus on whether, when, how, or why that may change as the economy recovers from the Great Recession. This Article analyzes historical and current trends in the job market for new lawyers in an effort to predict how that market may evolve.
The Article derives quantitative measurements of the proportion of law graduates over the last thirty years who have obtained initial employment for which law school serves as rational substantive preparation (“Law Jobs”). In comparing entry-level hiring …