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Give Them Back Their Lives: Recognizing Client Narrative In Case Theory, Binny Miller

Michigan Law Review

This article is about case theory and its implications for incorporating client narratives in litigation. In seeking to understand the connections between voice, narrative, and case theory, I look not only to theory but to my experience as a clinical teacher and criminal defense attorney. I explore how the practice of lawyering can be reconstructed to embrace a greater role for clients in constructing case theories, both through the images of the client the lawyer presents in the case theory and through active client participation in developing and choosing the case theory. Although one aim of case theory is to …

Legal Malpractice: The Profession's Dirty Little Secret, Manuel R. Ramos

Vanderbilt Law Review

Legal malpractice is a taboo subject. It has been ignored by the legal profession,' law schools, mandatory continuing legal education ("CLE") programs, and even by scholarly' and lay publications. Unfortunately, our perception of legal malpractice, up until now, has been highly distorted by secretive insurance companies, confidential settlement agreements, and a questionable American Bar Association ("ABA") Study. Nonetheless, sharply contrasting portraits of legal malpractice have emerged: either it is just a minor problem of "weeding out" a few "bad apples," or it is the tip of an "iceberg," ready to overwhelm the legal profession. The ABA Study has fostered the …

Lawyering Askew: Excesses In The Pursuit Of Fees And Justice, Kenneth Lasson

All Faculty Scholarship

Lawyer-bashing in America has long been a national pastime, having somehow escaped the palliative of political correctness that has greatly diminished other scurrilous pursuits like Jewish-American-Princess-baiting and Polish-joking.

Much of the profession's negative image can be ascribed to the sheer number of people hanging out their shingles as attorneys at law - just about as many per capita as there are inmates currently serving time in all the state prisons. Lawyers are likewise chastised for the hard-sell hucksterism of their advertising, the exponential growth of their caseloads, and the endless upward spiral of their fee scales. No doubt such perceptions, …

Volume 17, Issue 2 (Fall 1994)

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Fall 1994

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1994 Academy Of Law Alumni Fellows Awards And Law Conference Dinner Invitation

Academy of Law Alumni Fellows

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Changing Opportunities For Partnership For Men And Women Lawyers During The Transformation Of The Modern Law Firm, Fiona M. Kay, John Hagan

Osgoode Hall Law Journal

Considerable controversy surrounds partnership in law firms, particularly regarding the possibility of systematic gender bias and discrimination. This article contributes to the existing literature by considering explanations of women's under-representation in partnerships within the historical context of changes in the structure of law practice. Such changes include transitions in the organization and scale of contemporary law firms, the emergence of branch offices and international markets, the diversification of recruitment practices and mobility routes through modified firm hierarchies, and rising expectations of billable hours. Using a survey of over 1,000 lawyers in Ontario law firms, the authors examine opportunities for partnership …

Logic And The Common Law Trial, Richard H. Underwood

Law Faculty Scholarly Articles

In this article, the author explores some of the inconsistencies between logic and the practice of law. The article draws together numerous anecdotes and examples of situations in which common sense was rejected or ignored in the name of legal procedure. The article focuses on various argument styles employed by lawyers.

The Limits Of Compulsory Professionalism: How The Unified Bar Harms The Legal Profession, Bradley A. Smith

Florida State University Law Review

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Sexual Harassment In The Legal Profession: Workplace Education And Reform, Civil Remedies, And Professional Discipline, Lisa Pfenninger

Florida State University Law Review

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Vol. 4, No. 2 (Summer 1994)

IU Law Update

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A Survivor's Guide To Law School, Erik M. Jensen

West Virginia Law Review

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Magazine's Law School Rankings Misleading, Indiana Deans Say, Mike Magan

Alfred Aman Jr. (1991-2002)

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Building Community Among Diversity: Legal Services For Impoverished Immigrants, Robert L. Bach

University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform

Part I of this Essay introduces the Immigrants' Legal Needs Study (ILNS), which provides most of the data for this Essay. Part II focuses on immigrants' access to legal assistance. It analyzes the problems and needs of recently arrived poor immigrants-both immigrants share with longer established poor residents as well as special needs related to immigrants' residency status. Part III addresses the present day demography of our urban communities, including the levels of new immigration. Parts IV and V detail the legal difficulties faced by poor immigrants, the ways they deal with these problems, and community responses to these needs. …

Eyes To The Future, Yet Remembering The Past: Reconciling Tradition With The Future Of Legal Education, Amy M. Colton

University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform

This Note explores the relationship between legal education and the legal profession, and what can be done to stop the two institutions from drifting farther and farther apart. Part I examines the history of the American law school, focusing on how the schools came into existence and what goals they intended to serve. Part II questions whether these goals have been reached, and dissects the present-day law school curriculum in search of both its triumphs and its failures. A necessary part of this curriculum analysis includes examining the evolution of the profession into a creature of both law and business, …

Making Elite Lawyers: Visions Of Law At Harvard And Beyond, Daniel A. Cohen

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Making Elite Lawyers: Visions of Law at Harvard and Beyond by Robert Granfield

Reflections On The Hart And Wechsler Paradigm, Richard H. Fallon, Jr.

Vanderbilt Law Review

The Federal Courts field may be experiencing a methodological crisis, but if so, it is a methodological crisis of a peculiar kind. The problem is not that new methodologies threaten traditional modes of analysis. On the contrary, the difficulty is that we have been doing largely the same thing for more than forty years--asking much the same questions formulated by Henry Hart and Herbert Wechsler in the first edition of The Federal Courts and the Federal System' and trying to answer them with roughly the same techniques. Not surprisingly, a number of people would like to throw off the Hart …

Power From The People, Milner S. Ball

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Rebellious Lawyering: One Chicano's Vision of Progressive Law Practice by Gerald P. López

Indiana Lawyer's Who's Who (Crossword Puzzle), Michael S. Maurer

Alfred Aman Jr. (1991-2002)

A crossword puzzle created by Michael S. Maurer with questions related to prominent legal professionals in Indiana, including Dean Aman.

Spring 1994

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Vol. 4, No. 1 (Spring 1994)

IU Law Update

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Spring 1994

Bill of Particulars

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Welcome To The Iu School Of Law, Alfred C. Aman Jr.

Alfred Aman Jr. (1991-2002)

On Monday, Aug. 23, 1993, the dean addressed the entering class. We share that message here with all of our alumni.

Volume 17, Issue 1 (Spring 1994)

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Attorney's Fees In Chapter 11 Reorganization: A Case For Modified Procedures, Brenda Hacker Osborne

Indiana Law Journal

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Pathologizing Professional Life: Psycho-Literary Case Stories, James R. Elkins

Law Faculty Scholarship

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The Case Of A Lifetime, Richard C. Reuben

Faculty Publications

There is great difficulty in defining pro bono lawyering. The classic model is the practitioner who devotes time to representing a client in a civil or criminal matter. But some consider other legal relationships pro bono as well, such as service on the boards of directors of nonprofit organizations, legal work at reduced fees, and activities that improve the law and legal profession. In the case of organizations such as the ACLU and the NAACP LDF, pro bono means a mixture of much of the above, as public interest law firms work hand in hand with private lawyers and firms …

Welcome To The Iu School Of Law, Alfred C. Aman

Articles by Maurer Faculty

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Law Is Still A Noble Profession, Alfred C. Aman Jr.

Alfred Aman Jr. (1991-2002)

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Lawyers, Mediation, And The Management Of Divorce Practice, Craig A. Mcewen, Lynn Mather, Richard J. Maiman

Journal Articles

Despite a widespread assumption that divorce mediation and divorce lawyers are incompatible, lawyers do play active-if largely unexamined-roles in many mediation programs. This article reports on the work of lawyers in a state with mandatory mediation. We find that lawyers in Maine have generally embraced mediation because it helps them manage problems inherent in divorce practice. Mandated divorce mediation facilitates both settlement negotiation and trial preparation, permits client participation in decisionmaking without requiring lawyers to surrender control, provides a forum for resolving both legal and nonlegal issues, and promotes efficient case management.