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A Clumsy Couple: The Problem Of Applying Model Rule 1.7 In Transactional Settings, Katelyn K. Leveque

Indiana Law Journal

The American Bar Association’s Model Rules of Professional Conduct (“Model Rules”) have long addressed conflicts of interest, with fluctuating degrees of stringency.1 For as long as the rules have been in place, legal scholars have grappled with how lawyers can work within the confines of the rules to serve their clients best, as well as how the rules might better align with what clients seek and expect from their legal representation. In their current form, the Model Rules address conflicts of interest in Rule 1.7. However, both this rule and the Model Rules more generally are not one size fits …

How To Fix Legal Scholarmush, Adam Kolber

Indiana Law Journal

Legal scholars often fail to distinguish descriptive claims about what the law is from normative claims about what it ought to be. The distinction couldn’t be more important, yet scholars frequently mix it up, leading them to mistake legal authority for moral authority, treat current law as a justification for itself, and generally use rhetorical strategies more appropriate for legal practice than scholarship. As a result, scholars sometimes talk past each other, generating not scholarship but “scholarmush.”

In recent years, legal scholarship has been criticized as too theoretical. When it comes to normative scholarship, however, the criticism is off the …

A Behavioral Theory Of Legal Ethics, Andrew M. Perlman

Indiana Law Journal

Behavioral insights have informed many areas of law, including the field of professional responsibility. Those insights, however, have had only a modest effect on the foundational theories of legal ethics, even though those theories are, at their core, prescriptions about human behavior. The reality is that lawyers’ conduct cannot be understood, theorized about, or used to produce the best possible regulations without an appreciation for the limits on human rationality and objectivity. A behavioral theory of legal ethics offers a way to incorporate those realties into the foundational debates on a lawyer’s professional role so that scholars can produce more …

Guidelines For The President's Legal Advisors (Including "Principles To Guide The Office Of Legal Counsel "), Dawn E. Johnsen

Indiana Law Journal

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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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Reasonable Expectations In Families, Businesses, And Family Businesses: A Comment On Rollock, Terry A. O'Neill

Indiana Law Journal

Symposium: Law and the New American Family Held at Indiana University School of Law - Bloomington Apr. 4, 1997

Professional Responsibility And Organization Of The Family Business: The Lawyer As Intermediary, Alysa Christmas Rollock

Indiana Law Journal

Symposium: Law and the New American Family Held at Indiana University School of Law - Bloomington Apr. 4, 1997

One Lawyer For The Family: A Response To Alysa Rollock, Patrick L. Baude

Indiana Law Journal

Symposium: Law and the New American Family Held at Indiana University School of Law - Bloomington Apr. 4, 1997

Science And Ethics In Conducting, Analyzing, And Reporting Social Science Research: Implications For Social Scientists, Judges, And Lawyers, Robert Rosenthal, Peter David Blanck

Indiana Law Journal

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Government Civil Investigations And The Ethical Ban On Communicating With Represented Parties, Ernest F. Lidge Iii

Indiana Law Journal

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Law And Conformity, Ethics And Conflict: The Trouble With Law-Based Conceptions Of Ethics, Steven R. Salbu

Indiana Law Journal

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Alter[Ing] People's Perceptions: The Challenge Facing Advocates Of Ancillary Business Practices, Marjorie Meeks

Indiana Law Journal

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Restraining The Overly Zealous Advocate: Time For Judicial Intervention, Paul Lowell Haines

Indiana Law Journal

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Evaluation Of A Bar Applicant's Moral Character: May A State Consider The Circumstances Surrounding A Discharge In Bankruptcy, William Owen Weiss

Indiana Law Journal

No abstract provided.

The Lawyer And The Terrorist: Another Ethical Dilemma, F. Thomas Schornhorst

Indiana Law Journal

Terrorism and the Media: Legal Responses, Symposium

Attorneys' Problems In Making Ethical Decisions, Edwin Greenebaum

Indiana Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Conflict Of Interest And Federal Service, By The Special Committee On The Conflict Of Interest Laws Of The Association Of The Bar Of The City Of New York, Edwin E. Ferguson

Indiana Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Legal Ethics, By Henry S. Drinker, Verner F. Chaffin

Indiana Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Sincerity And Intellectual Honesty In Leaders, Frederick H. Stinchfield

Indiana Law Journal

Address of Hon. Frederick H. Stinchfield, President of the American Bar Association, at the Annual Meeting of the Indiana State Bar Association, July 10, 1937.

Petition Of Bar Association To Supreme Court To Regulate Practice Of Law

Indiana Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Bar Of Other States - What Do You Say?, R. Allen Stephens

Indiana Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Bar Endorsement Of Judicial Candidates, Oscar Haney

Indiana Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Individual Responsibility Of The Lawyer And Respect For The Law, Charles A. Lowe

Indiana Law Journal

Judge Lowe delivered this address before the 37th Judicial Circuit Bar Association, August 8th, 1933.

The Lawyer's Duty To The Public, Will Shafroth

Indiana Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Fiduciaries-Corporate And Lawyers, Julius Henry Cohen

Indiana Law Journal

An address delivered to the Indiana State Bar Association at Indianapolis, January 16, 1932.

A Lawyer Tells The Truth, By Morris Gisnet, Daniel James

Indiana Law Journal

No abstract provided.