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Teaching Professional Responsibility In Legal Clinics Around The World, Leah Wortham
Teaching Professional Responsibility In Legal Clinics Around The World, Leah Wortham
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At a March 1999 Colloquium on Clinical Legal Education,1 a group of about 20 people, including a number of law faculty already teaching or planning to teach legal clinics in Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union , were asked, "What are the goals that you think are most important for a legal clinic?" The most common answers were teaching about ethics and improving the ethical standards of law practice in participants' respective countries through this focus in legal education.
Should An Attorney Be Required To Advise Client Of Adr Options?, Marshall J. Breger
Should An Attorney Be Required To Advise Client Of Adr Options?, Marshall J. Breger
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In recent years alternative dispute resolution (ADR) has moved from the margins of legal practice into the mainstream. It is no longer the exception for attorneys to employ or clients to request ADR services in almost every aspect of legal representation. This shift to the legal mainstream raises the question whether attorneys, as part of their general obligation to keep clients informed of their legal alternatives, should be required to advise their clients regarding ADR options. This paper will consider this question. In doing so, it will consider, at least inferentially, the character and purpose of ethics "rules."