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Lilly Endowment Inc.

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Lilly Endowment Inc. is an Indianapolis-based, private philanthropic foundation created in 1937 by three members of the Lilly family -- J.K. Lilly Sr. and sons J.K. Jr. and Eli -- through gifts of stock in their pharmaceutical business, Eli Lilly and Company.

On December 12, 2007, the Lilly Endowment awarded the law school a $25 million grant enabling the school to attract and retain exceptional teachers and scholars and to establish the School as one of the very best public universities in the country. “[The gift] will help us position our School of Law at the forefront of legal education …

Women Of Distinction Honored (Photograph)

Lauren Robel (2002 Acting; 2003-2011)

The Girl Scouts of Tulip Trace Council, Inc. 2007 Women of Distinction Awards Dinner held on Friday, Nov. 16. Pictured from front left are Mary Krupinski (Honoree), Lauren Robel (Honoree), Anna Weigand (Honoree), Janet Skillman (Honoree), Jenny Morgan (Honoree), Alisa Wright (Honoree). In the back row from the left are Pam Freeman (Honoree), Ann Shea (WTIU producer-mistress of ceremonies), Deborah O'Brien (Girl Scouts of Tulip Trace Council CEO), Regina Moore (Bloomington city clerk and event co-chair), Sue Wanzer (Girl Scouts of Tulip Trace Council Board president).

Vol. 5, No. 06 (November/December 2007)

Indiana Law Update

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Fall 2007

Alumni News

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Vol. 1, No. 2 (Fall 2007)

Indiana Law

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Vol. 5, No. 05 (September/October 2007)

Indiana Law Update

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Vol. 5, No. 04 (July/August 2007)

Indiana Law Update

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Vol. 5, No. 03 (May/June 2007)

Indiana Law Update

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Spring 2007

Alumni News

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Vol. 1, No. 1 (Spring 2007)

Indiana Law

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Vol. 5, No. 02 (March/April 2007)

Indiana Law Update

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2007-08 Marked By Historic Gifts, Lauren K. Robel

Lauren Robel (2002 Acting; 2003-2011)

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Historic $35 Million Gift Supports Student Scholarships

Lauren Robel (2002 Acting; 2003-2011)

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The Power And Promise Of Transformative Philanthropy, Lauren K. Robel

Lauren Robel (2002 Acting; 2003-2011)

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John Hanson, Lauren Robel, And Maulvi Wahab (Photograph)

Lauren Robel (2002 Acting; 2003-2011)

Maulvi Wahab, Ameer or leader of the Ahmadiyya Muslim community of Ghana, visited IUB in late June as one of several distinguished international visitors invited to attend the Indiana Democracy Consortium's congress Democracy and the Modern World: Prospects and Challenges organized by Bennett Bertenthal, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences; Astrid Merget, then dean of the School of Public and Environmental Affairs; and Lauren Robel, dean of the School of Law-Bloomington. The congress was convened by Jeff Isaac, chair of political science. The Ameer, who has served on the presidentially appointed Ghanaian National Recon ciliation Commission, visited his …

Globalization Of Law Firms: A Survey Of The Literature And A Research Agenda For Further Study, D. Daniel Sokol

Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies

The Internationale expansion of law firms plays a critical role in understanding the business of law and the nature of globalization. This article responds to the articles by Carole Silver and Len Bierman and Michael Hitt on law firm expansion in this symposium issue on the Globalization of the Legal Profession. The essay utilizes management studies' theoretical work on internationalization and applies it to law firm expansion to explain law firm strategic decision-making. The author creates a six part taxonomy for types of law firm expansion and provides a snapshot of the increasing U.S./UK. dominance of capital markets, corporate and …

Globalization Of Legal Practice In The Internet Age, Leonard Bierman, Michael A. Hitt

Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies

The Internet's global reach has had a significant impact on the legal profession. This essay explains a few of the key developments in this area, including: competition fueled by outsourcing legal work to lower-wage earning lawyers around the world, "virtual work" changing client interaction and attorney work schedules, law firm reputation as a result of information availability on the Internet, work-product monitoring and the commoditization of legal services, and work force diversity spurred by the influence of international clients.

Globalization of The Legal Profession, Symposium. Indiana University School of Law-Bloomington, April 6, 2006

Ethical Codes And Cultural Context: Ensuring Legal Ethics In The Global Law Firm, Laurence Etherington, Robert Lee

Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies

There are doubtless many practical and professional problems that arise in the global legal practice, but this paper suggests that not least of these are issues of legal ethics, in part generated by the global context and not easily amenable to resolution by reference to any single code within the "home" or "host" jurisdiction. For example, there may be difficulties in isolating precisely what those ethical obligations might comprise. These obligations might be rooted in the requirements of local law, but they might arise equally from the values and expectations of the client, or from other lawyers whether inside or …

Lawyers As Sanctifiers: The Role Of Elite Law Firms In International Business Transactions, John Flood

Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies

Globalization has fundamentally accelerated and altered business transactions. The search for low labor costs and cheap raw materials has led to a proliferation of international transactions, and large, international law firms are called on to participate in complex transactions helping business tap into sources of finance around the world for investment. This article first examines the theoretical underpinnings of international legal practice, taking into account the historiography of U.S. and U.K. law firms. Part II describes the economic and political factors behind law firms' rise. Part III analyzes the success of the common law, as expressed through contract, at the …

Global Law: A Legal Phenomenon Emerging From The Process Of Globalization, Pierrick Le Golf

Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies

This article addresses the following question: Is Global Law merely a trendy theory, or are there concrete and factual elements allowing submission of irrefutable evidence of a movement toward the creation of a stand-alone international legal system? In this piece, Le Goff explores the idea of global law, and whether a harmonized scheme based on converging national laws and practices, international custom and values, among others, is emerging in the global economy. The first part of the article attempts to define the notion of global law, and to distinguish global law from other disciplines claiming a direct link to or …

Vol. 5, No. 01 (January/February 2007)

Indiana Law Update

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A Look At Legal Education: The Globalization Of American Legal Education, James P. White

Indiana Law Journal

Conference of Chief Justices and Conference of State Court Administrators Annual Meeting July 29-August 2, 2006 Indianapolis, Indiana.

Flattening The World Of Legal Services? The Ethical And Liability Minefields Of Offshoring Legal And Law-Related Services, Carole Silver, Mary C. Daly

Articles by Maurer Faculty

This article examines offshore outsourcing of legal and law-related services as the newest twist in the international market for legal services. We consider the impact of offshore outsourcing on the profession generally and analyze the ethical issues raised by offshore outsourcing, both as it exists today and as the practice may develop in the future. The article begins by situating offshore outsourcing in the framework of relationships created in the context of delivery of legal services. This framework is used, in turn, to construct a structure of analysis for the ethical implications of offshore outsourcing. Lawyers who outsource to offshore …

The Globalization Of The Legal Profession, William D. Henderson

Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies

Globalization of The Legal Profession, Symposium. Indiana University School of Law-Bloomington, April 6, 2006

Local Matters: Internationalizing Strategies For U.S. Law Firms, Carole Silver

Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies

The local nature of legal systems reduces the harmonizing impact that globalization has generated in other sectors of the economy. Despite the continuing importance of local differences and institutions, the world in which law and lawyers operate is increasingly connected, and national borders are receding as barriers to commerce. Lawyers and their firms must respond to the forces of globalization both as organizations and in connection with the services they provide. This article addresses the ways in which they are doing so by examining what it means for a law firm to be both a global and a U.S. firm. …

Income And Career Satisfaction In The Legal Profession: Survey Data From Indiana Law School Graduates, Jeffrey E. Stake, Kenneth G. Dau-Schmidt, Kaushik Mukhopadhaya

Articles by Maurer Faculty

This article presents data on graduates of a law school located at a large, midwestern public university. It presents responses to survey questions relating to various personal and job characteristics, including income from the practice of law and career satisfaction. It compares the responses across various demographic groups, including type of practice, gender, race, and ethnicity. We find that lawyers in large private law firms make more money than lawyers in small private practices, who, in turn, make more than those in government or public interest positions. Career satisfaction is greatest for lawyers in corporate counsel, public interest, and government …

Young Associates In Trouble, William D. Henderson, David T. Zaring

Articles by Maurer Faculty

In the Shadow of the Law. By Kermit Roosevelt. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 2005. Pp. 346. $24.

Utterly Monkey: A Novel. By Nick Laird. London & New York: Harper Perennial. 2005. Pp. 344. $13.95.

Two recent novels portray the substantively unhappy and morally unfulfilling lives of young associates who work long hours in large, elite law firms. As it turns out, their search for love, happiness, and moral purpose is largely in vain. In the rarefied atmosphere of both fictitious firms, the best and the brightest while away their best years doing document reviews, drafting due diligence memoranda …

Outsourcing And The Globalizing Legal Profession, Jayanth K. Krishnan

Articles by Maurer Faculty

The issue of outsourcing jobs abroad stirs great emotion among Americans. Economic free-traders fiercely defend outsourcing as a positive for the U.S. economy while critics contend that corporate desire for low wages solely drives this practice. In this study I focus on a specific type of outsourcing, one which has received scant scholarly attention to date - legal outsourcing. Indeed because the work is often paralegal in nature, many see the outsourcing of legal jobs overseas as no different from other types of outsourcing. But by using as my case studies both the United States and India, the latter which …