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A Dissenter's Commentary On The Professionalism Crusade, Rob Atkinson

Scholarly Publications

No abstract provided.

Suing The Firm, Richard C. Reuben

Faculty Publications

Lawyers who once would rather take grievances against their firms to the grave are now taking them to court. Is it the death of professionalism or the dawning of accountability?

Am I My Partner's Keeper? Peer Review In Law Firms, Susan Saab Fortney

Faculty Scholarship

This article explores the concept of peer review in the practice of law. The article begins with an introduction to law partners’ liability exposure for the acts or omissions of their law partners. The article explains how this exposure has traditionally been approached as vicarious liability and how the government is attempting to transform these issues into direct liability by using failure to monitor claims. Part I briefly reviews perspectives on the emergence, growth, and structure of law firms, then uses a matrix to show how firm culture and organizational structure affect internal and external controls on attorney conduct. Part …

Sneaking Around In The Legal Profession: Interjurisdictional Unauthorized Practice By Transactional Lawyers, Charles W. Wolfram

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

The quiet clubbiness that once characterized the practice of law in the United States is rapidly disappearing as new realities announce their clamorous arrival. Evaporating at a great rate—judging speed of change in historical terms—are many traditionally accepted and functionally important features of the legal profession of another day. Disappearing or dead are such sturdy former fixtures as the exclusivity of traditional bar self-policing. Also gone is the at-one-time widely acknowledged hegemony of the American Bar Association as the exclusive source of lawyer code pronouncements on lawyer disciplinary regulation. Courts, under the thrall of bar associations, at one time claimed …

"X-Spurt" Witnesses, Richard H. Underwood

Law Faculty Scholarly Articles

In this article the author pulls together a history of expert witnesses in common law systems. Various issues are explored regarding expert witness testimony, including: the historical underpinnings of the practice, how Daubert controls that issue in modern times, rules of evidence, psychological science, and professional ethics.

Prospecting The Internet, Peter W. Martin

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

Potential clients, legal information and expert forums are waiting for lawyers on the 'Net. An innovator in online legal services explains why you need to be there.

Review Of "Constitutional Torts" By Sheldon H. Nahmod, Michael L. Wells, Thomas A. Eaton, Jack M. Beermann

Faculty Scholarship

The most interesting issues in the field of constitutional torts, involving the legal and moral bases for the government's responsibility for injuries it causes, are the most difficult ones for lawyers to explore. The question whether, as a moral or social policy matter, governments and government officials should enjoy immunities or other defenses not available to private individuals is rarely confronted directly in judicial opinions or in scholarship on constitutional torts, yet it lurks behind many of the doctrinal issues that come up in constitutional tort litigation.¹ A slight scratch on the surface of doctrines as disparate as official …

Vol. 5, No. 2 (Summer 1995)

IU Law Update

No abstract provided.

Summer 1995

Bill of Particulars

No abstract provided.

Expertise And Improvisation Bond Us, Alfred C. Aman Jr.

Alfred Aman Jr. (1991-2002)

The following is adapted from the dean's address to the 1995 graduating class.

Expertise And Improvisation Bond Us, Alfred C. Aman

Articles by Maurer Faculty

No abstract provided.

Advice To The New Law Student: On Learning Law, Susan H. Williams

Articles by Maurer Faculty

No abstract provided.

The Creation Of A Usable Judicial Past: Max Lerner, Class Conflict, And The Propagation Of Judicial Titans, Sarah Barringer Gordon

All Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Celebrations (Photographs)

Alfred Aman Jr. (1991-2002)

Happy new alums celebrate in IUB's Memorial Stadium (above) and Attorney General Janet Reno addresses the audience at the law School graduation (left), while Law Dean Alfred Aman (seated lower left) listens. Both events were May 6 at IUB.

Reno Challenges Law Grads, Mark Berkowitz

Alfred Aman Jr. (1991-2002)

No abstract provided.

Remembering Banks, Robert B. Kent

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Litigation In The U.S. And In The Civil Law System: What Can We Learn From Each Other?, James Maxeiner

All Faculty Scholarship

Discusses the lack of American interest in learning about foreign civil procedure. Considers points where America might benefit from foreign experiences. Suggests significant differences in procedure can be attributed to emphasis on day-in-court thinking over reasoned decision thinking.

The Reception Of Foreign Law In The U.S. Federal Courts, Roger J. Miner '56

Bar Associations

No abstract provided.

A Preliminary Inquiry Into The Transcendence Of Value Creation, Frederick Lambert

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Class Of 1995 Five Year Report, University Of Michigan Law School

UMLS Alumni Survey Class Reports

This report summarizes the findings of a questionnaire sent to University of Michigan Law School alumni five years after graduation.

Class Of 1995 Five Year Report Alumni Comments, University Of Michigan Law School

UMLS Alumni Survey Class Reports

This addendum is a compilation of alumni responses to the open-ended comments sections.

Progressive Lawyering And Lost Traditions, Peter Margulies

Law Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Terry Bethel (Photograph)

Terry Bethel (1990-1991 Acting)

Terry Bethel in his office holding a pipe.

Anti-Intellectualism, Pierre Schlag

Publications

No abstract provided.

On Not "Getting It", Dianne Pothier

Dianne Pothier Collection

Although there has been increasing awareness regarding equity and access issues in the legal profession, that awareness has tended to miss the multi-faceted nature of the problem. The author discusses how the recognition of one kind of barrier may not assist in the recognition of others. Understanding race or gender does not necessarily imply understanding disability or sexual orientation. Students, faculty and practitioners need to challenge and question their assumptions, to guard against barriers to entry and to really belonging.

Bien qu 'ii y ail une prise de conscience grandissante en ce qui touche /es questions d'egalite et d'acces dans …

Gladiators Be Gone: The New Disclosure Rules Compel A Reexamination Of The Adversary Process, 36 B.C. L. Rev. 479 (1995), Rogelio A. Lasso

UIC Law Open Access Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Vol. 5, No. 1 (Winter 1995)

IU Law Update

No abstract provided.

Proposed Legislation Concerning A Lawyer’S Duty Of Confidentiality, Roger C. Cramton

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Denaturalizing The Lawyer-Statesman (Book Review), Anthony V. Alfieri

Articles

No abstract provided.

Jacques Of All Trades: Derrida, Lacan, And The Commercial Lawyer, Sidney Delong

Faculty Articles

Professor DeLong’s article provides humorous advice for legal professors on how to apply deconstructionist and post-Freudian theory to commercial law classes. Professor DeLong explains that the key to the successful integration of postmodern thought into your own scholarship is stunningly simple: all you have to do is not care whether you really get it right. He describes how you too will soon be turning out articles like "The Social Construction of Cowness in the Packers and Stockyards Act," or "Silencing the Lambs: Narratives of Loss and Evisceration in the Packers and Stockyards Act," or "Cattle Prods and Cutting Pens: A …