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A Cause Worth Quitting For? The Conflict Between Professional Ethics And Individual Rights In Discriminatory Treatment Of Corporate Counsel, Rachel S. Arnow Richman

Indiana Law Journal

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Lawyer Communications On The Internet: Beginning The Millennium With Disparate Standards, Louise L. Hill

Washington Law Review

Lawyer communications on the Internet constituting commercial speech are subject to state ethics rules governing lawyer advertising and communication. Because each state operates as a separate entity with its own rules that govern the lawyers of its jurisdiction, the profession is faced with disparate standards on a jurisdictional basis. Of the forty-three states that have adopted the Model Rules of Professional Conduct, four-fifths have standards on lawyer communications that vary from those in the Model Rules. Not only is there variation in the rules themselves, but differences exist in the specific applicability and interpretation of these rules to components of …

Brief Reflections On The Enterprise, Patricia D. White

Articles

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Poor Canadian Legal Education: So Near To Wall Street, So Far From God, Harry W. Arthurs

Osgoode Hall Law Journal

The recent appearance of recruiters from Wall Street firms at several Canadian law schools, and the recent hiring by American law schools of several mid-career Canadian law professors, has created a "moral panic" as journalists, academics and law firms have expressed great concern over the loss of Canada's "best and brightest" to the United States. Properly understood as part of a larger debate about globalization and regional economic integration, these developments are less important in themselves than for what they reveal about the present and future of the Canadian state, and the Canadian business community, legal profession and universities.

German Mdps: Lessons To Learn, Laurel Terry

Faculty Scholarly Works

This article is the third of four major articles or book chapters that I have written about MDPs. This article focuses on German multidisciplinary partnerships (MDPs) between lawyers and accountants. The German MDP experience is important because Germany is one of the few jurisdictions that expressly permits MDPs and because conferences about World Trade Organization's General Agreement on Trade in Services (the GATS) have cited to Germany when suggesting that other countries' MDP bans may be unnecessarily restrictive. After introducing common MDP regulatory issues, this article focuses on Germany. The article explains Germany's current regulation of MDPs and provides a …

Seize The Future, Gary A. Munneke

Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications

Reprinted by permission from Law Practice Quarterly, Volume 1, No. 2, Feb. 2000.

Ready Or Not, Here They Come: Why The Aba Should Amend The Model Rules To Accommodate Multidisciplinary Practices, Bradley G. Johnson

Washington and Lee Law Review

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The Aba And Mdps: Context, History, And Process, Charles W. Wolfram

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

Foreword: The Question Of Process, J. Harvie Wilkinson Iii

Michigan Law Review

Many in the legal profession have abandoned the great questions of legal process. This is too bad. How a decision is reached can be as important as what the decision is. In an increasingly diverse country with many competing visions of the good, it is critical for law to aspire to agreement on process - a task both more achievable than agreement on substance and more suited to our profession than waving the banners of ideological truth. By process, I mean the institutional routes by which we in America reach our most crucial decisions. In other words, process is our …

Zen And The Art Of Jursiprudence, Matthew K. Roskoski

Michigan Law Review

Lawyer bashing is by no means a remarkable phenomenon. It was not remarkable when Shakespeare wrote, "[t]he first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers," and it's not remarkable today. Paul Campos, however, has written a particularly readable example, blending venerable Western lawyer-bashing and pop psychology with unsystematic invocations of Eastern religion. Jurismania is named after Campos's theory that the American legal system has a lot in common with a person suffering from an obsessive-compulsive disorder, an addiction to law that does neither the patient nor those around him much good. In Jurismania, Campos criticizes our insistence on regulating …

How To Cross-Train For Peak Lawyering, Heidi K. Brown

Articles & Chapters

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Lr&W Should Begin At The Beginning: Reading Legal Authority, Jane Kent Gionfriddo

Jane Kent Gionfriddo

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Who Should Control The Decision To Call A Witness: Respecting A Criminal Defendant's Tactical Choices, Rodney J. Uphoff

Faculty Publications

A law student approached me not long ago to discuss a problem he had encountered while helping to prepare a criminal case for retrial. The defendant's first trial ended with a hung jury. The defendant, Steven Brown, now faced a second trial on the same misdemeanor charge of assaulting a police officer. Although the defendant still wanted to go to trial, Brown told defense counsel that he did not want his elderly father to have to testify again. From defense counsel's standpoint, the father's testimony was critical because he was the only witness corroborating the defendant's version of the event. …

Volume 23, Issue 1 (Spring 2000)

Transcript

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Clark Memorandum: Spring 2000, J. Reuben Clark Law Society, J. Reuben Clark Law School

The Clark Memorandum

• Just Lawyers (Ralph R. Mabey)
• Morality and Professional Ethics (Elder Dallin H. Oaks)
• Paradise Found (Joyce Janetski)
• Is it Possible to be a Lawyer and a Christian? (Brett Scharffs)

The "Darden Dilemma": Should African Americans Prosecute Crimes?, Kenneth B. Nunn

UF Law Faculty Publications

Christopher Darden (prosecutor in the O.J. Simpson trial) has come to epitomize the burdens that African American prosecutors face as they perform their professional tasks. Moreover, the "Darden Dilemma" has become a generic term for the anguish that these prosecutors endure as they negotiate between competing allegiances to the African American community and the State. Much has been written about the sense of isolation that African American prosecutors feel when confronting the conflict between their roles as prosecutors and their obligations to the African American community. This article argues that African Americans should not prosecute crimes in the current criminal …

Michael Maurer, Val Nolan And Lauren Robel (Photograph)

Lauren Robel (2002 Acting; 2003-2011)

Michael S. (Mickey) Maurer, a 1967 graduate of the School of Law, established the Val Nolan Chair of Law with his wife, Janie, as a way of honoring Mickey Maurer’s favorite professor, Val Nolan. Lauren Robel was named the Val Nolan Professor of Law on March 31, 2000. This photograph was taken on the day of the ceremony.

Interview With Lita Indzel Cohen, Simi B. Kaplan, Lita Indzel Cohen, Legal Oral History Porject, University Of Pennsylvania Carey Law School

Legal Oral History Project

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Lita Indzel Cohen (L '65) represented the 148th district in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives from 1991 until 2003. Before that she was the first woman to theto the Lower Merion Township Planning Commission and served for eight years on the Lower Merion Township Commission..

Interview With John O. Honnold, Steffen Bressler, John O. Honnold, Legal Oral History Project, University Of Pennsylvania Carey Law School

Legal Oral History Project

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John O. Honnold was the William A. Schnader Professor of Commercial Law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, after joining the school's faculty in 1946.^[His academic focus was private international law. From 1969 to 1974 he served as chief of legal staff for the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL), where he was instrumental in drafting the U.N. Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods. He died in 2011.

Interview With Myer "Mike" Feldman, Meredith Coleman, Myer Feldman, Legal Oral History Project, University Of Pennsylvania Carey Law School

Legal Oral History Project

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Myer Feldman (L '38) worked for the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Senate Banking and Currency Committee before serving as a senior adviser to the Kennedy and Johnson campaigns and administrations. He continued to be active in Democratic politics after leaving government service for private practice in 1965. He died in 2007.

Interview With Michele Tuck-Ponder, Diankha Warren, Michele Tuck-Ponder, Legal Oral History Project, University Of Pennsylvania Carey Law School

Legal Oral History Project

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Michele Tuck-Ponder (L '83) has held many positions in law, government, education, media relaions, and the non-profit sector. From 1995 to 1997 she served as mayor of Princeton, New Jersey.

In Memoriam: Rafael C. Benitez, Richard A. Hausler

University of Miami Inter-American Law Review

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In Memoriam: Rafael C. Benitez, Carl E.B. Mckenry Jr.

University of Miami Inter-American Law Review

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In Memoriam: Rafael C. Benitez, Keith S. Rosenn

University of Miami Inter-American Law Review

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In Memoriam: Rafael C. Benitez, Cami Green

University of Miami Inter-American Law Review

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In Memoriam: Rafael C. Benitez, Burton A. Landy

University of Miami Inter-American Law Review

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Inter-America Bar Association: Resolutions Of The Xxxv Conference

University of Miami Inter-American Law Review

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Interview With Myles H. Tanenbaum, Randy Lee, Myles H. Tanenbaum, Legal Oral History Project, University Of Pennsylvania Carey Law School

Legal Oral History Project

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Myles Tanenbaum (L'57) was a partner at the firm of Wolf Block until he moved into commercial real estate development in 1970. He was a member of the University of Pennsylvania Board of Trustees and of the Penn Law School Board of Overseers. Tanenbaum Hall in the Law School is named after his daughter Nicole. He died in 2012.

Interview With Alan M. Lerner, Lake Srinivasan, Alan M. Lerner, Legal Oral History Project, University Of Pennsylvania Carey Law School

Legal Oral History Project

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Alan M. Lerner (L '65) was a practice professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School from 1993 until his death in 2010. He practiced and taught mainly in the areas of civil rights and family law.

The Price Of Law: How The Market For Lawyers Distorts The Justice System, Gillian K. Hadfield

Michigan Law Review

Bill Clinton's legal bills in connection with the Lewinsky scandal topped $10 million; the bill for Ken Starr's investigation of the President exceeded $50 million. The cost to the eight families portrayed in the bestseller A Civil Action for their tort suit against a manufacturing company accused of dumping hazardous chemicals into the water supply was $4.8 million (paid from a settlement of about $8 million); the cost for the defense exceeded $7 million. Lawyers who represented the three states in the nationwide suit by state attorneys general against tobacco companies to recoup smoking-related health care costs were awarded $8.2 …