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Ethics For Examiners, Daniel J. Bussel
Ethics For Examiners, Daniel J. Bussel
Fordham Law Review
The inquisitorial bankruptcy examiner is sui generis in our system. He faces unique ethical quandaries and considerations, which require a code of ethics tailored to his role if he is to achieve fully the promise of improving Chapter 11 through the introduction of inquisitorial investigative methods. This Article attempts to point the way toward guidelines that will regulate the conduct of examiners to mitigate real, potential, and perceived abuses.
Judicial Interpretation Of State Ethics Rules Under The Mcdade Amendment: Do Federal Or State Courts Get The Last Word?, Hopi Costello
Judicial Interpretation Of State Ethics Rules Under The Mcdade Amendment: Do Federal Or State Courts Get The Last Word?, Hopi Costello
Fordham Law Review
The McDade Amendment ("the Act") is a federal law that requires federal prosecutors to abide by the state ethics rules of the jurisdiction in which they practice. The Act does not say, however, whether federal or state courts are definitive when it comes to interpreting state ethics rules as they apply to federal prosecutors. Those testifying before Congress raised this issue and noted that the Act left the issue unresolved. Despite this, Congress did not address this matter in either its legislative history or in the Act itself. No court has tackled this question and scholarship attends to it only …
Overstepping Ethical Boundaries? Limitations On State Efforts To Provide Access To Justice In Family Courts, Jessica Dixon Weaver
Overstepping Ethical Boundaries? Limitations On State Efforts To Provide Access To Justice In Family Courts, Jessica Dixon Weaver
Fordham Law Review
Family law courts in America are overwhelmed with self-represented parties who try their best to navigate an unfamiliar territory laden with procedural and evidentiary rules. Efforts to level the playing field in these courts have resulted in state entities and judges taking on roles that previously belonged to attorneys. State supreme court judges and state agencies draft and promulgate family law forms, such as divorce pleadings and paternity acknowledgments, to provide poor citizens access to justice. While these efforts have resulted in positive outcomes for some families, reliance on the state’s imprimatur has caused significant harm to others. Upon closer …
Employer Monitoring Of Employee Email: Attorney-Client Privilege Should Attach To Communications That The Client Believed Were Confidential, Alex Delisi
Fordham Law Review
Emails feel like private, confidential communications. But in the workplace, employers often retain the right to monitor every communication sent or received by an employee on an employer-owned device or network. This Note addresses the issue of whether attorney-client privilege should attach to communications made between an employee and her private attorney over a system monitored by her employer. When addressing this issue, most district and state courts apply a test that seeks to determine the reasonableness of the employee’s expectation of confidentiality in the attorney-client communication. However, courts differ in how they apply the expectation of reasonableness test, with …
Baseless Pleas: A Mockery Of Justice, Mari Byrne
Baseless Pleas: A Mockery Of Justice, Mari Byrne
Fordham Law Review
This Note addresses the ethicality of the baseless plea, a guilty plea entered by a defendant for a crime that everyone in the courtroom—judge, prosecutor, defense attorney, and defendant—knows the defendant did not commit. Used in the interest of efficiency and leniency, the baseless plea allows a defendant to plead guilty to a crime that has no basis in the facts of the case. Though used by courts in numerous jurisdictions, baseless pleas have been largely unaddressed as courts have sought to conceal the practice and as commentators have therefore failed to detect it. This Note seeks to remedy that …
Ethical Visions Of Copyright Law, James Grimmelmann
Ethical Visions Of Copyright Law, James Grimmelmann
Fordham Law Review
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The Lawyer's Role In A Contemporary Democracy, Promoting The Rule Of Law, Lawyering Loyalties: Speech Rights And Duties Within Twenty-First-Century New Governance, Orly Lobel
Fordham Law Review
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The Lawyer's Role In A Contemporary Democracy, Promoting The Rule Of Law, The Corporate Lawyer's Role In A Contemporary Democracy, Colin Marks, Nancy B. Rapoport
The Lawyer's Role In A Contemporary Democracy, Promoting The Rule Of Law, The Corporate Lawyer's Role In A Contemporary Democracy, Colin Marks, Nancy B. Rapoport
Fordham Law Review
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The Lawyer's Role In A Contemporary Democracy, Promoting Access To Justice And Government Institutions, Equalizers And Translators: Lawyers' Ethics In A Constitutional Democracy, Martin Bohmer
Fordham Law Review
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The Lawyer's Role In A Contemporary Democracy, Promoting Access To Justice And Government Institutions, Rethinking The Public In Lawyers' Public Service: Pro Bono, Statgic Philanthropy, And The Bottom Line, Deborah L. Rhode
Fordham Law Review
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The Lawyer's Role In A Contemporary Democracy, Tensions Between Various Conceptions Of The Lawyer's Role, Statesman Or Scribe? Legal Independence And The Problem Of Democratic Citizenship, Aziz Rana
Fordham Law Review
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It's Been A Privilege: Advising Patients Of The Tarasoff Duty And Its Legal Consequences For The Federal Psychotherapist-Patient Privilege, Elisia Klinka
Fordham Law Review
State laws modeled on Tarasoff v. Regents of the University of California require psychotherapists to warn potential victims of law enforcement when treating dangerous patients who make serious threats of harm to another person. In practice, many psychotherapists advise their patients who make such threats about their duty under these Tarasoff-model laws. Although they are not required to make these advisories by law, psychotherapists generaly assume that they asldo have a concomitant ethical duty to advise their patients taht such threats will not be kept confidential, as their communications normally world be. This Note looks at how these advisories affect …
Prosecutorial Ethics And The Mcnulty Memo: Should The Government Scrutinize An Organization's Payment Of Its Employees' Attorneys' Fees?, Noah D. Stein
Fordham Law Review
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Evidence And Ethics: Litigating In The Shadows Of The Rules, Joseph A. Colquitt
Evidence And Ethics: Litigating In The Shadows Of The Rules, Joseph A. Colquitt
Fordham Law Review
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Ethics And Evidence, Introduction, Daniel J. Capra
Ethics And Evidence, Introduction, Daniel J. Capra
Fordham Law Review
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Federal Evidence Rule 608(B): Gateway To The Minefield Of Witness Preparation, Gerald L. Shargel
Federal Evidence Rule 608(B): Gateway To The Minefield Of Witness Preparation, Gerald L. Shargel
Fordham Law Review
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Clarifying The Curative Admissibility Doctrine: Using The Principles Of Forfeiture And Deterrence To Shape The Relief For An Opponent's Evidentiary Misconduct, Edward J. Imwinkelried
Clarifying The Curative Admissibility Doctrine: Using The Principles Of Forfeiture And Deterrence To Shape The Relief For An Opponent's Evidentiary Misconduct, Edward J. Imwinkelried
Fordham Law Review
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Are Evidence-Related Ethics Provisions "Law"?, Fred C. Zacharias
Are Evidence-Related Ethics Provisions "Law"?, Fred C. Zacharias
Fordham Law Review
No abstract provided.
See No Evil: Wrongful Convictions And The Prosecutorial Ethics Of Offering Testimony By Jailhouse Informants And Dishonest Experts, Myrna S. Raeder
See No Evil: Wrongful Convictions And The Prosecutorial Ethics Of Offering Testimony By Jailhouse Informants And Dishonest Experts, Myrna S. Raeder
Fordham Law Review
No abstract provided.
The Use And Misuse Of High-Tech Evidence By Prosecutors: Ethical And Evidentiary Issues, Robert Aronson, Jacqueline Mcmurtrie
The Use And Misuse Of High-Tech Evidence By Prosecutors: Ethical And Evidentiary Issues, Robert Aronson, Jacqueline Mcmurtrie
Fordham Law Review
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Prosecutors, Ethics, And Expert Witnesses, Paul C. Giannelli, Kevin C. Mcmunigal
Prosecutors, Ethics, And Expert Witnesses, Paul C. Giannelli, Kevin C. Mcmunigal
Fordham Law Review
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Expert Witness Ethics, Joseph Sanders
Special Issues Raised By Rape Trial, Aviva Orenstein
Special Issues Raised By Rape Trial, Aviva Orenstein
Fordham Law Review
No abstract provided.
"Remarkable Stratagems And Conspiracies": How Unscrupulous Lawyers And Credulous Judges Created An Exception To The Hearsay Rule, Marianne Wesson
"Remarkable Stratagems And Conspiracies": How Unscrupulous Lawyers And Credulous Judges Created An Exception To The Hearsay Rule, Marianne Wesson
Fordham Law Review
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The Perplexing Problem Of Client Perjury, L. Timothy Perrin
The Perplexing Problem Of Client Perjury, L. Timothy Perrin
Fordham Law Review
No abstract provided.
"Anything You Say May Be Used Against You": A Proposed Seminar On The Lawyer's Duty To Warn Of Confidentiality's Limits In Today's Post-Enron World, Paul F. Rothstein
"Anything You Say May Be Used Against You": A Proposed Seminar On The Lawyer's Duty To Warn Of Confidentiality's Limits In Today's Post-Enron World, Paul F. Rothstein
Fordham Law Review
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Ethical Firewalls, Limited Admissibility, And Rule 703, Daniel D. Blinka
Ethical Firewalls, Limited Admissibility, And Rule 703, Daniel D. Blinka
Fordham Law Review
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The Duke Lacrosse Case, Innocence, And False Identifications: A Fundamental Failure To "Do Justice", Robert P. Mosteller
The Duke Lacrosse Case, Innocence, And False Identifications: A Fundamental Failure To "Do Justice", Robert P. Mosteller
Fordham Law Review
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The Emotional Juror., Todd E. Pettys
Introduction: The Post-Enron Identity Crisis Of The Business Lawyer, William H. Simon
Introduction: The Post-Enron Identity Crisis Of The Business Lawyer, William H. Simon
Fordham Law Review
No abstract provided.