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Professional Identity Formation Through Pro Bono Revealed Through Conversation Analysis, Linda F. Smith
Professional Identity Formation Through Pro Bono Revealed Through Conversation Analysis, Linda F. Smith
Cleveland State Law Review
Law school is supposed to teach legal analysis and lawyering skills as well as mold law students’ professional identities. Pro bono work provides an opportunity for law students to use their legal knowledge and skills and to develop their identities as emerging legal professionals. As important as both pro bono work and identity formation are, there has been very little research regarding how pro bono contributes to students’ identity formation. This Article utilizes a data set of over forty student-client consultations at a pro bono brief advice project that have been recorded and transcribed. It uses conversation analysis to study …
Is Law A Discipline? Forays Into Academic Culture, Gene R. Shreve
Is Law A Discipline? Forays Into Academic Culture, Gene R. Shreve
Cleveland State Law Review
This Article explores academic culture. It addresses the reluctance in academic circles to accord law the full stature of a discipline. It forms doubts that have been raised into a series of four criticisms. Each attacks an academic feature of law, inviting the question: Is law different from the rest of the university in a way damaging its stature as an academic discipline? The Article concludes that, upon careful examination of each criticism, none establishes a difference between law and other disciplines capable of damaging law’s stature.
Personal Values And Professional Ethics, Geoffrey C. Hazard Jr.
Personal Values And Professional Ethics, Geoffrey C. Hazard Jr.
Cleveland State Law Review
My purpose on this occasion is to urge reexamination of personal values as a fundamental resource of professional ethics. The essential point is that rules of ethics, such as those embodied in the profession's ethical codes, are insufficient guides to making the choices of action that a professional must make in practice. I will suggest that the same is true of professional tradition and conventional ways of practice. This is not to say that rules of ethics and traditions are irrelevant. Rules of professional ethics frame the ethical problems that are encountered in a lawyer's life throughout practice. Moreover, professional …
The Pro Bono Debate And Suggestions For A Workable Program, Sophia M. Deseran
The Pro Bono Debate And Suggestions For A Workable Program, Sophia M. Deseran
Cleveland State Law Review
Although the concept of pro bono publico, the rendering of an attorney's services without or with substantially reduced compensation, has been in existence for centuries, there has been an increasing interest in the question of whether this public service can be made a mandatory one. This note will explore the development of a mandatory service requirement by reviewing the American treatment of such an obligation. Some attention will be given to foreign approaches as well. In addition, the need for legal assistance will be analyzed. Finally, in view of the uncertain status of a mandatory pro bono system, suggestions for …
Love, Professional Responsibility, The Rule Of Law, And Clinical Legal Education, Steven H. Leleiko
Love, Professional Responsibility, The Rule Of Law, And Clinical Legal Education, Steven H. Leleiko
Cleveland State Law Review
The primary purpose of this article is to explore the tensions which arise in persons who come to law school because they view the practice of law as an expression of their love and concern for people. In examining the underlying causes of these tensions, six related factors will be looked at: (1) the relationship between the values of traditional legal education and the support or lack of support which these values afford to the affective characteristics of students; (2) the role of one's job as a means of expressing love; (3) the role of job satisfaction in one's life; …
The Unpopularity Of Lawyers In America, Jon R. Waltz
The Unpopularity Of Lawyers In America, Jon R. Waltz
Cleveland State Law Review
What's wrong with us lawyers? Mainly, it is that the worst among us pose for our portrait, so that we are viewed as avaricious and egomaniacal, all flair and no substance, seeking and wielding power without having the strength of character to wield it well. Lost to the public is the portrait of most lawyers, the sorts of lawyers that I hope this University produces. They are quiet people who come to the law, and stay with it, because they know that the law's power lets them help people make the best of a trying world.
Tardiness Of Attorneys As Contempt Of Court, Thomas L. Esper
Tardiness Of Attorneys As Contempt Of Court, Thomas L. Esper
Cleveland State Law Review
Tardiness of an attorney is a violation of the Cannons of Professional Ethics. A continual disregard of the canons of ethics constitutes misconduct or moral turpitude. Misconduct or moral turpitude are grounds for disbarment. Just as clearly, tardiness of an attorney is punishable as contempt of court. Contempt of court is viewed as a criminal conviction, since the contemner is subject to fines and imprisonment. Contempt of court, if sufficiently repeated, is ground for disbarment.
Pragmatic Approach To Problems Of Group Law Practice, Herschel Kriger
Pragmatic Approach To Problems Of Group Law Practice, Herschel Kriger
Cleveland State Law Review
United Mine Workers of America, District 12 v. Illinois State Bar Association, is one of the latest in a line of holdings which have demonstrated that areas heretofore considered by the Bar as sacrosanct unto itself or the state courts are not immune from re-evaluation. That decision, rendered on December 5, 1967, was not unexpected in the light of the pronouncements of the Supreme Court in NAACP v. Button, and Railroad Trainmen v. Virginia Bar Association, and the process is likely to continue.
Emily Post Goes To Court, Vincent S. Dalsimer
Emily Post Goes To Court, Vincent S. Dalsimer
Cleveland State Law Review
After a few years of observing attorneys from the other side, rather than the other end, of the counsel table, I have concluded that courtroom etiquette is the most rapidly declining of all of the social or professional graces. Perhaps this is because the fine points of the art are essentially trivia. Perhaps, on the other hand, the laudable modern trend away from the rigidity of procedure and the pre-trial sanctity of the opposing side's theory of the lawsuit has been carried to the point of dropping the facade of courtesy along with the penetration of the shield of the …
Labor Union Group Legal Service For Members, Eugene Green
Labor Union Group Legal Service For Members, Eugene Green
Cleveland State Law Review
The right of associations to provide their members with legal services appears to be as broad as the freedom of assembly and discussion protected by the First and Fourteenth Amendments. These freedoms "are not confined to any field of human interest" and are of the same dimension in matters of local or national interest.
Trade Association Offering Legal Services - A Possibility For Small Corporations, Robert R. Hussey
Trade Association Offering Legal Services - A Possibility For Small Corporations, Robert R. Hussey
Cleveland State Law Review
Small corporations generally belong to a trade association which allows them to increase their proficiency in and knowledge of their industry. As a possible solution to the problem of increasing legal service requirements this paper investigates the suitability of allowing these trade associations to provide legal services to member corporations.
Group Law Services In Patent Law, G. Franklin Rothwell
Group Law Services In Patent Law, G. Franklin Rothwell
Cleveland State Law Review
If group legal services are to pervade the field of patent law, and in view of the UMW case and the activities of the unregistered patent practitioners, that I suspect is imminent, the most stringent safeguards should be specifically set forth, including the following: specific approvaland regulation by the Patent Office of the group, its modus operandi,and the patent practitioners participation; and stringent restrictions by the Patent Office of the groups' advertising and promotional activities, both written and outside the group. The Patent Office now has statutory authority to regulate registered practitioners, and some regulation could be accomplished in this …
Legal Ethics And The Poverty Program, Kenneth D. Korosec
Legal Ethics And The Poverty Program, Kenneth D. Korosec
Cleveland State Law Review
This paper has attempted to reconcile the neighborhood legal services plan with the existing Canons of Professional Ethics.The prime argument is that the plan provides benefits to society, and that the Canons were designed to prevent evils far different from the questions presented by the project. This is the fundamental issue: whether the canons are merely bent, or, in reality, broken. In either event, the canons should not prevent justice for those too poor to pay for a lawyer. The"redeeming social interest" spoken of by the Court in obscenity cases and the "overriding social importance" talked about in social legislation …
Solicitation By And For Attorneys, Richard R. Gygli, Gordon W. Larson
Solicitation By And For Attorneys, Richard R. Gygli, Gordon W. Larson
Cleveland State Law Review
The young attorney often may have time on his hands. He may be tempted to increase his following by advertising or by soliciting clients, but rules of the bar and statutes against solicitation prevent this. There are, of course, some forms of advertising open to all lawyers. National directories and law lists, such as the Martin dale-Hubbell Law Directory, theoretically published only for lawyers, not only advertise the attorney and his firm, but also list the names of any clients whom he wishes to give as representative of his practice and his specialties.
Abuse Of Attorneys By Judges, Francis G. Homan Jr.
Abuse Of Attorneys By Judges, Francis G. Homan Jr.
Cleveland State Law Review
Popular notions have it that almost all misconduct in the courtroom is attributable to attorneys. Yet many practitioners before the bar have suffered abuse by members of the judiciary. How frequently this occurs is not known, but sometimes incidents of non-judicial conduct are revealed in other than case reports.
Reasonable Fee And Professional Discipline, William C. Romell
Reasonable Fee And Professional Discipline, William C. Romell
Cleveland State Law Review
The question propounded by this article is - what exactly is the "reasonable" fee, and conversely under what conditions may a fee be adjudged so unreasonable that the legal profession may administer justifiable discipline to the attorney charging such a fee?
Split Loyalty: An Ethical Problem For The Criminal Defense Lawyer, Gerald S. Gold
Split Loyalty: An Ethical Problem For The Criminal Defense Lawyer, Gerald S. Gold
Cleveland State Law Review
Nowhere in law do ethical considerations play a greater part or come into greater conflict than in the defense of those accused of crime. The lawyer defending an accused owes a duty to his client, a duty to society, and a duty to the court. The duties to each are not completely clear and when the various loyalties conflict, fair, safe, and moral resolutions are most difficult.
Attorney-Client Privilege And Corporations, Richard C. Klein
Attorney-Client Privilege And Corporations, Richard C. Klein
Cleveland State Law Review
On August 3, 1962 a memorandum decision was handed down in an antitrust proceeding which startled practicing attorneys and text writers alike. It held specifically that the "attorney-client privilege" did not apply to the corporate client.' What had been accepted as law for over one hundred and twenty-five years was curtly cast aside by Chief Judge William J. Campbell.