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Shaping The Future Of The Profession, David N. Smith

Research Collection Yong Pung How School Of Law

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Professional Secrecy And Its Exceptions: Spaulding V. Zimmerman Revisited, Roger C. Cramton, Lori P. Knowles

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

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Feminist Legal Theory, Feminist Lawmaking, And The Legal Profession, Elizabeth M. Schneider, Cynthia Grant

Faculty Scholarship

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What If There Is No Client?: Prosecutors As "Counselors" Of Crime Victims, Stacy Caplow

Faculty Scholarship

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Joint Defense Agreements And Disqualification Of Co-Defendant's Counsel,, Arnold Rochvarg

All Faculty Scholarship

How should courts rule on the issue of joint defense agreements and motions for disqualification of another joint defense member's attorney in subsequent litigation? After analyzing prior cases that attempt to resolve the issue, it is clear that no generally accepted analysis of the disqualification issue exists. This article proposes an analytic framework for courts to use when ruling on such motions for disqualification arising in the context of prior joint defense agreements.

Although some courts have found an implied attorney-client relationship among all members and attorneys of the joint defense agreement, this view is flawed and based on a …

Vol. 8, No. 2 (Fall 1998)

Alumni Update

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Thinking Like A Lawyer Or Acting Like A Judge: A Response To Professor Simon, David Yellen

Articles

Professor William Simon argues that the principal professional responsibility of all lawyers should be to "seek justice."' He defines this as pursuing the client's rights, but not the client's interests, if those interests are incompatible with the "truth." As a concrete example of this approach, Professor Simon states that it would normally be inappropriate for a lawyer to subject a vulnerable, but accurate, witness to cross examination intended to create the impression that the witness' testimony was mistaken.

In my view, Professor Simon's position would not really further "justice" at all. In these brief comments, by focusing on the likely …

Law School Engagement In Professionalism And Improved Bar Relations, Donald J. Weidner

Scholarly Publications

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Compromise And Continuity: Miranda Waivers, Confession Admissibility, And The Retention Of Interrogation Protections, Mark Berger

Faculty Works

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Ranking And Explaining The Scholarly Impact Of Law Schools, Theodore Eisenberg, Martin T. Wells

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

This article measures 32 law schools' academic reputations by citations to their faculties' works. Yale, Chicago, Harvard, and Stanford rank alone at the top. Seven or eight schools compose the next group. We also explore the relation between scholarly impact and entry-level or lateral hire status, gender, minority status, subjects taught, and years in teaching. Lateral hires systematically outperform entry-level hires. We find no substantial evidence of male-female differences. We find some evidence of lower citations for minority females, but this difference is largely attributable to those in teaching fewer than 8 years. For faculty members in teaching more than …

Brief Letter Written Twenty-Five Years Ago Began Events Leading To Boshkoff To Teaching Honor

Leon Wallace (1951-1952 Acting; 1952-1966)

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Cops Are Pigs, And Lawyers Suck: The Portrayal Of The Legal System In Young Adult Literature, Christine P. Bartholomew

Other Scholarship

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Private Bar Monitors Public Defense - Oversight Committee Sets Standards For Indigent Defense Providers, Adele Bernhard

Articles & Chapters

The oversight committee drafted standards and guidelines with the primary goal of creating a yardstick for defense services organizations against which to measure performance and the hope that a practical set of standards serve multiple purposes, including: educating a skeptical public about what it takes to provide quality defense services; promoting an understanding of why adequate funding is necessary (to engender public support for more spending); and providing notice to the organizations themselves of what is expected of a publicly funded defense office.

Bismarck's Sausages And The Ali's Resatements, Charles W. Wolfram

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

The Boiling Pot Of Lawyer Conflicts In Bankruptcy, Charles W. Wolfram

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

I take up here only two modest pieces of the current puzzle of lawyer conflicts of interest in bankruptcy practice. One involves the decision of the American Law Institute (hereinafter "ALI") to sidestep the entire field in the course of drafting its Restatement of the Law Governing Lawyers (hereinafter "Restatement"). The other involves the decision of the National Bankruptcy Review Commission (hereinafter "NBRC") to refuse to recommend that Congress do anything at all major to disturb existing law in the same realm. Either the law of lawyer conflicts in bankruptcy has been blessed in its present state by two prestigious …

How A Sole Practitioner Uses The "Electronic Office" To Maintain A Competitive Law Practice, Jesse Richardson

Law Faculty Scholarship

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Vol. 8, No. 1 (Spring 1998)

Alumni Update

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Inherent Powers In The Crucible Of Lawyer Self-Protection: Reflections On The Llp Campaign, Charles W. Wolfram

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

Professional Responsibility And Liability Issues Related To Limited Liability Law Partnerships, Susan Saab Fortney

Faculty Scholarship

This article surveys the professional responsibility and liability issues related to attorneys practicing in limited liability law firms. Part I of this article provides background information regarding the development of the limited liability partnership (LLP) and its popularity among legal professionals. Part II tackles the 1996 ethics opinion on LLPs rendered by the American Bar Association Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility. This article criticizes the ABA opinion by examining the conclusions and reasoning articulated in the opinion, indentifying disciplinary rules that the opinion did not address, and considering the possible effects of the opinion. Part III focuses on …

"The New Yuppie Female Lawyer": The Impact Of Women On Divorce Law Practice, Lynn M. Mather

Other Scholarship

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Law School Deans Criticize Rankings, Jennifer Paynter

Lauren Robel (2002 Acting; 2003-2011)

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Mpre Reconsidered, The, Leslie Levin

Faculty Articles and Papers

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Professional Responsibility In Appellate Practice: A View From The Bench, Roger J. Miner '56

Law Practice

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The Legal Profession And Its Future: Recapturing The Ideal Of The Statesman-Lawyer, Timothy J. Sullivan

Faculty Publications

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Taking The Cop Out Of Copping A Plea: Eradicating Police Prosecution Of Criminal Cases, Andrew Horwitz

Law Faculty Scholarship

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Shall - Take No. 2, Debra R. Cohen

Journal Articles

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Bringing Legal Realism To The Study Of Ethics And Professionalism, Douglas N. Frenkel, Robert L. Nelson, Austin Sarat

All Faculty Scholarship

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Kentucky Law Survey: Professional Responsibility, William H. Fortune

Law Faculty Scholarly Articles

This article is a survey of recent Kentucky ethics cases and Kentucky Bar Association ethics opinions. The cases and opinions selected are those of general application but special interest.

Batson Ethics For Prosecutors And Trial Court Judges, Sheri Lynn Johnson

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

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The Standard Of Care In Legal Malpractice: Do The Model Rules Of Professional Conduct Define It?, Gary A. Munneke

Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications

This Article will review existing case law and commentary, and propose a new formula for application of rules of professional conduct in determining the standard of care to which attorneys should be held in malpractice cases. The authors will argue in favor of establishing a position that state rules of professional conduct create certain specific standards of lawyer behavior that constitute a minimum standard of conduct and a minimum standard of care for every individual attorney practicing in each jurisdiction.