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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 …

Dangerous! Our Focus Should Be Analysis Not Formulas Like Irac, Jane Kent Gionfriddo

Jane Kent Gionfriddo

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Rank Strangers To Me: Shaffer And Cochran's Friendship Model Of Moral Counseling In The Law Office, Jack L. Sammons

University of Arkansas at Little Rock Law Review

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A New Standard For Disbarments: Misappropriation Through Gross Negligence - North Carolina State Bar V. Ford, Michael J. Dayton

North Carolina Central Law Review

No abstract provided.

"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.

Volume 18, Issue 2 (Fall 1995)

Transcript

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Fall 1995

Transcript

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Lawyers As Strangers And Friends: A Reply To Professor Sammons, Thomas L. Shaffer, Robert F. Cochran Jr.

University of Arkansas at Little Rock Law Review

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Jacob's Blessing: A Review Of Shaffer's And Cochran's Model Of Moral Counseling, John M.A. Dipippa

University of Arkansas at Little Rock Law Review

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Lawyers, Clients, And Money, John M.A. Dipippa

University of Arkansas at Little Rock Law Review

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A Lot Of Knowledge Is A Dangerous Thing: Will The Legal Profession Survive The Knowledge Explosion?, H W. Arthurs

Dalhousie Law Journal

Professor Arthurs argues that with the growth and diversification of knowledge, the common body of knowledge that underpins a unified profession is becoming more difficult to sustain. The desire to know, the need to know and the resources to know have divided lawyers into subprofessions, increasingly defined by the non-lawyers with whom they work and the clienteles they serve, bound togetherif at all-only by nostalgia and some residuum of self-interest.

Clark Memorandum: Fall 1995, J. Reuben Clark Law Society, J. Reuben Clark Law School

The Clark Memorandum

• Soldiers of the Spirit (Lance D. Wickman)
• The Profession Everyone Loves to Hate (James D. Gordon, III)
• Selected Letters (Woody Deem)
• The Atonement—Infinite and Eternal (Merrill J. Bateman)
• Out of Kindergarten, Out of Law School (Marilyn V. Yarbrough)

The Impact Of The Americans With Disabilities Act On State Bar Examiner's Inquiries Into The Psychological History Of Bar Applicants, Carol J. Banta

Michigan Law Review

This Note argues that the use of any questions based upon an applicant's psychological history in the state bar application process violates the Americans with Disabilities Act. Part I demonstrates that Title II of the ADA applies to state boards of bar examiners, and that the ADA definition of a person with a disability includes a person who has sought or received psychological counseling. Part II applies the ADA and accompanying regulations to the psychological history inquiries currently used by state bar examiners and argues that such inquiries violate the ADA because they inquire specifically about disabled status. Part III …

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.

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

Articles by Maurer Faculty

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Expertise And Improvisation Bond Us, Alfred C. Aman

Articles by Maurer Faculty

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The Impact Of General Dynamics Corp. V. Superior Court On The Evolving Tort Of Retaliatory Discharge For In-House Attorneys, Chanda R. Coblentz

Washington and Lee Law Review

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

All Faculty Scholarship

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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)

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Mass Torts -- Messy Ethics, Charles W. Wolfram

Cornell Law Review

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In Defense Of Lawyers, Geoffrey C. Hazard Jr.

Michigan Law Review

A Review of A Nation Under Lawyers: How the Crisis In the Legal Profession is Transforming American Society by Mary Ann Glendon

Poverty Lawyering In The Golden Age, Matthew Diller

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Brutal Need: Lawyers and the Welfare Rights Movement, 1960-1973 by Martha F. Davis