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The Contemplative Lawyer: On The Potential Contributions Of Mindfulness Meditation To Law Students, Lawyers, And Their Clients, Leonard L. Riskin

UF Law Faculty Publications

This Article proposes that introducing mindfulness meditation into the legal profession may improve practitioners' well-being and performance and weaken the dominance of adversarial mind-sets. By enabling some lawyers to make more room for - and act from - broader and deeper perspectives, mindfulness can help lawyers provide more appropriate service (especially through better listening and negotiation) and gain more personal satisfaction from their work.

Part I of this article describes a number of problems associated with law school and law practice. Part II sets forth a variety of ways in which lawyers, law schools, and professional organizations have tried to …

Fortifying A Law Firm's Ethical Infrastructure: Avoiding Legal Malpractice Claims Based On Conflicts Of Interest, Susan Saab Fortney, Jett Hanna

Faculty Scholarship

This article addresses the prevailing problem of malpractice claims based on conflicts of interest. Part I of this article introduces the topic by underscoring the seriousness of all conflicts of interest and recommending preventative action. Part II describes measures that law firms can take to detect and manage conflicts and analyzes the effect of the firm’s ability to avoid conflicts claims on a firm’s ethical infrastructure. Part III focuses on some of the most common conflicts situations that result in malpractice claims and sanctions. The discussion includes selected conflicts cases that illustrate problems and patterns. Part IV concludes by urging …

Interview With Azizah Al-Hibri, Hisham Elkoustaf, Azizah Al-Hibri, Legal Oral History Project, University Of Pennsylvania Carey Law School

Legal Oral History Project

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Professor Azizah al-Hibri (L '85) is a Professor Emerita at the University of Richmond Law School, having served on the faculty from 1992 until her retirement in 2012. Her work has centered on developing an Islamic jurisprudence and body of Islamic law that are gender equitable and promote human rights and democratic governance. Professor al-Hibri has authored numerous book chapters, essays, and law review articles on these subjects, and her work has appeared in the highly respected Journal of Law and Religion, Harvard International Review …

Our Beloved Harry Pratter

Harry Pratter (1976-1977 Acting)

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Beloved Iu Law Professor Dies, Donita Hadley

Harry Pratter (1976-1977 Acting)

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Forming An Agenda - Ethics And Legal Ethics, Robert E. Rodes

Journal Articles

The law profession is unique in the scope of the mandate it gives those within it to intervene in other people's affairs. As a result of this unique power of intervention, lawyers encounter a number of unique problems. This paper elucidates upon, and applies, the moral standards and intuitions to be used in approaching these problems. It argues that we should form our consciences in dialogue with our clients and that once they are formed we must follow them and limit our representation accordingly. If lawyer and client cannot agree on an agenda with which both are comfortable, the lawyer …

Aman Steps Down As Dean, Bennett Haeberle

Alfred Aman Jr. (1991-2002)

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Between Law And Virtue, Joseph P. Tomain, Barbara Watts

Faculty Articles and Other Publications

Legal ethics, professional responsibility, and professionalism are timely topics as lawyers continually reevaluate the standards of their profession, particularly in light of the challenges of multidisciplinary and multijurisdictional practice, as well as the embarrassment facing lawyers involved in and surrounding the Enron collapse. In this article, our goal is to discuss how to think and talk about ethics and professionalism. By way of preview, we need to understand that ethics and professionalism use different vocabularies and, consequently, talk past each other to some extent. Our hope is that understanding the existence of these two vocabularies helps reduce the misunderstanding. Both …

Cognitive Legal Studies: Categorization And Imagination In The Mind Of Law--Introduction, Lawrence M. Solan

Faculty Scholarship

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Empathy, Spring, And Fervorino, Susan Bennett

Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals

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Extending The Revisionist Project, Lewis Grossman

Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals

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A Tribute To Paul Szasz, John J. Barceló Iii, David Wippman

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

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Statement On The Bar Exam, Society Of American Law Teachers

Statements

In 2002, SALT issued a statement on the bar exam in which it opposed raising the passing score and provided alternatives to the existing bar exam.

From The Paper Chase To The Digital Chase: Technology And The Challenge Of Teaching 21st Century Law Students, 43 Santa Clara L. Rev. 1 (2002), Rogelio A. Lasso

UIC Law Open Access Faculty Scholarship

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Silence Is Golden: The New Illinois Rules On Attorney Extrajudicial Speech, 33 Loy. U. Chi. L.J. 323 (2002), Alberto Bernabe

UIC Law Open Access Faculty Scholarship

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Who's In Charge Here?: Putting Clients In Their Place, 37 Ga. L. Rev. 1 (2002), Jason Kilborn

UIC Law Open Access Faculty Scholarship

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Learning More Than Law From Maryland Decisions, Ian Gallacher

College of Law - Faculty Scholarship

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Can Paralegals Replace Corporate Lawyers?, Porcher L. Taylor Iii

School of Professional and Continuing Studies Faculty Publications

I predict that by 2010, expense will force many of the nation's largest law firm radically to alter the lawyer-paralegal ratio. Hundreds of corporate clients intent on controlling high legal fees will drive this change. Consequently, we may see a new kind of law firm gain popularity: firms with more paralegals than lawyers. Even today, the law of paralegal economics sing a soothing tune to corporate America.

The Social Responsibility Of Corporate Law Professors, Lyman P.Q. Johnson

Scholarly Articles

Most statements of corporate social responsibility focus on the responsibilities of corporate decision makers or their advisors Professor Johnson argues that corporate law professors-the persons who educate the students who will become lawyers counseling corporate decision makers-also have a social responsibility. He believes that professors should find various ways to raise the subject of corporate social responsibility in the basic corporations course, and he advocates rejecting a classroom approach that addresses only shareholder-manager relations After describing several possible ways to do this, Professor Johnson spotlights fiduciary laws as a fruitful area to enrich student understandings of director duties in a …

Comment: Multi-Disciplinary Practice And Conflict Of Interest, Kevin C. Mcmunigal

Faculty Publications

My comments as part of this panel focus on the attitude of proponents of multi-disciplinary practice toward conflict of interest. Before turning to that topic, I would like to offer a general observation about the debate on multi-disciplinary practice as well as a suggestion for improving the quality of that debate.

Psychological Insights: Why Our Students And Graduates Suffer, And What We Might Do About It, Lawrence S. Krieger

Scholarly Publications

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In Memoriam — Howard B. Eisenberg, Craig Allen Nard

Faculty Publications

This is a tribute to Howard B. Eisenberg.

Bending Toward Justice: John Doar And The Mississippi Burning Trial, Douglas O. Linder

Faculty Works

All other civil rights groups in 1964 considered Mississippi - the most impenetrable state in the union - hopeless. The decision of Bob Moses of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) to shake up the Magnolia State by sending six hundred young volunteers into every corner of the state to register new black voters brimmed with danger. Moses explained to a first gathering of student volunteers, When you're not in Mississippi, it's not real. And when you're there, the rest of the world isn't real. In the early morning hours of June 20, Mickey Schwerner, Andrew Goodman, and James Chaney …

Professor Frank R. Kennedy, Jack F. Williams

Faculty Publications By Year

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"We're All Consultants Now": How Change In Client Organizational Strategies Influences Change In The Organization Of Corporate Legal Services, Robert Eli Rosen

Articles

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Aim High And A Vision Broad: The Public Responsibilities Of A Public Profession, Donald L. Burnett Jr.

Articles

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Court Assistance Office Seeks Attorneys To Meet Growing Demand For Legal Services, Patrick D. Costello

Articles

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How Theology Might Learn From Law (Symposium: The Theology Of The Practice Of Law), James Boyd White

Articles

I want to start today with an account of the way lawyers think and speak, and then ask whether it might be useful for the theologically minded to take these practices and procedures seriously as a ground of comparison from which to look at their own. In doing this I shall look at the practice of law with an emphasis not on its social effects or ethical difficulties but on the nature of the activity itself, viewed from the inside, asking in particular what kind of knowledge it requires and creates in its practitioner. What does the lawyer learn from …

Negotiations Goes To War, Charles J. Dunlap Jr., Paula B. Mccarron

Faculty Scholarship

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Maccrate's Missed Opportunity: The Maccrate Report's Failure To Advance Professional Values Symposium, Russell G. Pearce

Faculty Scholarship

The 1992 Report of the Task Force on Law Schools and the Profession: Narrowing the Gap (the "Task Force"), Legal Education Professional Development - An Educational Continuum, popularly known as the MacCrate Report (the "Report"), was the most ambitious effort to reform legal education in the past generation. Some commentators have described the Report as "the greatest proposed paradigm shift in legal education since Langdell envisioned legal education as the pursuit of legal science through the case method in the late 19th century.” Although the Report sought to promote education in both lawyering skills and values, its major influence has …