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Group Legal Services For Trade Associations, Richard D. Copaken
Group Legal Services For Trade Associations, Richard D. Copaken
Michigan Law Review
This Article will examine the goals of the Canons of Professional Ethics in this trade association context, noting the pre-Button limitations on the representation of members of such associations, and analyzing the possible impact of the three cases on the development of group legal services in this area. Hopefully, the perspective gained from such an examination may prove useful in the difficult task immediately confronting the legal profession: reformulation of the Canons to bring them into conformity with Button, BRT and UMW while minimizing, on the one hand, the loss of those traditional conceptions which have continuing value and …
Legal Aid--Lay Control And Organizational Complexity Render Oeo Legal Service Program Unacceptable To New York Court--In Re Community Action For Legal Services, Inc., Michigan Law Review
Legal Aid--Lay Control And Organizational Complexity Render Oeo Legal Service Program Unacceptable To New York Court--In Re Community Action For Legal Services, Inc., Michigan Law Review
Michigan Law Review
The Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO) and the New York City Council Against Poverty approved the organization and the OEO funding of three legal service corporations as part of a comprehensive program to provide legal assistance to New York City's poor. According to the plan, the first corporation, Community Action for Legal Services, Inc. (CALS), was to approve proposed plans for setting up and operating neighborhood law offices with OEO funds and then to supervise and coordinate the agencies that sought to put those plans into operation. These agencies, operating as delegates of CALS, and under subcontracts with it, were …
Attorney And Client - Drafting Legal Instruments As Practice Of Law, Milton Rabinowitz
Attorney And Client - Drafting Legal Instruments As Practice Of Law, Milton Rabinowitz
Michigan Law Review
In citation of defendant for contempt for unlicensed practice of law, held, that the preparing of a note and chattel mortgage and advising as to the legal effect thereof constitutes practice of law. " . . . [The practice of law] includes . . . drawing of wills, deeds, mortgages and other instruments of like character, where a legal knowledge is required, and where counsel and advice are given with respect to the validity and legal effect of such instruments . . . . " State v. Barlow, (Neb. 1936) 268 N. W. 95.