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2006

University of Nevada, Las Vegas -- William S. Boyd School of Law

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Bankruptcy Ethics Issues For Solos And Small Firms, Nancy B. Rapoport Jan 2006

Bankruptcy Ethics Issues For Solos And Small Firms, Nancy B. Rapoport

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This chapter, in Corinne Cooper & Catherine E. Vance's book Attorney Liability in Bankruptcy, walks the reader through some of the traditional ethics issues triggered by representing consumers and small businesses. It also addresses some of the ethics issues that the recent Bankruptcy Amendments (BAPCPA) have created.


Standing In Babylon, Looking Toward Zion, Katherine R. Kruse Jan 2006

Standing In Babylon, Looking Toward Zion, Katherine R. Kruse

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This article defends the triumph of vision at the 2006 UNLV Conference on Representing Children in Families by examining the interrelationship between idealism and realism in the definition of lawyers' roles and the importance of idealized visions to the process of reforming dysfunctional systems. This article suggests that the vision of lawyering for children sketched in the UNLV Recommendations--though based in idealism--is both deeply realistic and ultimately practical. This article thus affirms the choice of the group of idealists who stood together for a few days in modern-day Babylon to keep their eyes trained on the vision of Zion as …