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Full-Text Articles in Legal Ethics and Professional Responsibility
Advising Clients After Critical Legal Studies And The Torture Memos, Milan Markovic
Advising Clients After Critical Legal Studies And The Torture Memos, Milan Markovic
Milan Markovic
No abstract provided.
Virtuous Billing, Randy D. Gordon, Nancy B. Rapoport
Virtuous Billing, Randy D. Gordon, Nancy B. Rapoport
Randy D. Gordon
Aristotle tells us, in his Nicomachean Ethics, that we become ethical by building good habits and we become unethical by building bad habits: “excellence of character results from habit, whence it has acquired its name (êthikê) by a slight modification of the word ethos (habit).” Excellence of character comes from following the right habits. Thinking of ethics as habit-forming may sound unusual to the modern mind, but not to Aristotle or the medieval thinkers who grew up in his long shadow. “Habit” in Greek is “ethos,” from which we get our modern word, “ethical.” In Latin, habits are moralis, which …
The Truth Of The Matter: Why The Social Contract Dictates Legal Scholars' Sincerity, Candor, & Thoroughness, Nicola A. Boothe-Perry
The Truth Of The Matter: Why The Social Contract Dictates Legal Scholars' Sincerity, Candor, & Thoroughness, Nicola A. Boothe-Perry
Marquette Law Review
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The Ethics Of Baiting And Switching In Law Review Submissions, Ryan Scoville
The Ethics Of Baiting And Switching In Law Review Submissions, Ryan Scoville
Marquette Law Review
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Institutional Pluralism And The (Hoped-For) Effects Of Candor And Integrity In Legal Scholarship, Paul Horwitz
Institutional Pluralism And The (Hoped-For) Effects Of Candor And Integrity In Legal Scholarship, Paul Horwitz
Marquette Law Review
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The Scholar's Dilemma, Chad Oldfather
The Ethics Of Normative Legal Scholarship, Robin West
A Thought Experiment About The Academic "Billable" Hour Or Law Professors' Work Habits, Eli Wald
A Thought Experiment About The Academic "Billable" Hour Or Law Professors' Work Habits, Eli Wald
Marquette Law Review
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Legal Scholars' Ethical Responsibilities Concerning Neutrality And Objectivity, Candor And Exhaustiveness, Neil Hamilton
Legal Scholars' Ethical Responsibilities Concerning Neutrality And Objectivity, Candor And Exhaustiveness, Neil Hamilton
Marquette Law Review
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Conference On The Ethics Of Legal Scholarship
Uncharted Waters? Legal Ethics And The Benefit Corporation, Joseph Pileri
Uncharted Waters? Legal Ethics And The Benefit Corporation, Joseph Pileri
St. Mary's Journal on Legal Malpractice & Ethics
Corporate law norms are reflected in lawyers’ ethical duties. The enactment of benefit corporation legislation across the country signals a legislative acknowledgment that corporate law can serve as a public, rather than a merely private, ordering mechanism. Benefit corporations expressly adopt a public benefit as a legal purpose of the enterprise. While many have written about this important development with respect to corporate fiduciary law, this essay is the first to explore the professional and ethical responsibility of lawyers representing benefit corporations. In the last century, as scholars and courts drove an understanding of corporate law that elevated the interests …
It’S A Trap! The Ethical Dark Side Of Requests For Admission, Colin Flora
It’S A Trap! The Ethical Dark Side Of Requests For Admission, Colin Flora
St. Mary's Journal on Legal Malpractice & Ethics
Due largely to an overlap of authority between disciplinary bodies charged with supervising the professional conduct of attorneys and the authority of courts to supervise litigation, the ethical ramifications of routine discovery abuses often pass without comment. That is because disciplinary authorities routinely defer to courts to police litigation behavior despite courts frequently rejecting the role of enforcers of professional rules. A further contributing factor to unethical conduct becoming routine practice in discovery are ill-defined parameters and a dearth of guidance. One tool in particular, requests for admission, has gone overlooked in the literature and caselaw, but poses unique ethical …
A Human Rights Code Of Conduct: Ambitious Moral Aspiration For A Public Interest Law Office Or Law Clinic, Lauren E. Bartlett
A Human Rights Code Of Conduct: Ambitious Moral Aspiration For A Public Interest Law Office Or Law Clinic, Lauren E. Bartlett
St. John's Law Review
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Part I of this Article argues that the lack of moral aspiration in legal ethics rules helps contribute to unhappy and unhealthy law students and lawyers, undermining the legal profession. Part II reviews the existing rules and standards that guide the ethical behavior of lawyers in the United States, arguing that all too often the binding rules focus on providing guide posts, signaling where behavior is unacceptable and disciplinary action is possible, instead of providing moral aspiration and options or next steps to describe what a lawyer should do to deal with an ethical dilemma.
Part III of this …
Savior Siblings In The United States: Ethical Conundrums, Legal And Regulatory Void, Zachary E. Shapiro
Savior Siblings In The United States: Ethical Conundrums, Legal And Regulatory Void, Zachary E. Shapiro
Washington and Lee Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice
No abstract provided.
Competing Liabilities: Responding To Evidence Of Child Abuse That Surface During The Attorney-Client Relationship, Alison Beyea
Competing Liabilities: Responding To Evidence Of Child Abuse That Surface During The Attorney-Client Relationship, Alison Beyea
Maine Law Review
Kevin Adams, a practicing attorney in Maine, represents John Brown in a dispute with Brown's landlord. Brown is facing eviction as a result of his inability to pay the rent. Over the course of the representation, Adams has come to believe that Brown is abusing his son. Brown--who is working two jobs but still cannot pay his rent--has told Adams of the incredible pressure he is facing. Brown has admitted that the pressure is getting to him and that he feels bad that he has been “taking it out on the kid.” Brown also told Adams that he had been …
Towering Figures, Enigmas, And Responsive Communities In American Legal Ethics, Thomas L. Shaffer
Towering Figures, Enigmas, And Responsive Communities In American Legal Ethics, Thomas L. Shaffer
Maine Law Review
The Annual Edward S. Godfrey Lecture at the University of Maine School of Law was held on November 12, 1998. Professor Thomas L. Shaffer, Edward S. Godfry Professor of Law, presented “Towering Figures, Enigmas, and Responsive Communities in American Legal Ethics.”
A Penal Colony For Bad Lawyers, Bennett L. Gershman
A Penal Colony For Bad Lawyers, Bennett L. Gershman
Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications
In this article I set out what I believe is an extreme and unconventional way to discipline egregiously bad lawyers. For starters, I think it might be useful to survey briefly the kinds of lawyering conduct currently subject to disciplinary sanctions. Regulation of the conduct of defense lawyers in the U.S. is hedged by various legal and professional rules that are enforced by courts and disciplinary bodies essentially to ensure a minimum level of competent and ethical representation. The Sixth Amendment right to counsel--the so-called “sacred” right--seeks to ensure at least a reasonable degree of lawyering skill. Also, professional codes …
Another Look At Lawyer Discretion To Assist Clients In Unlawful Conduct: A Response To Professor Tremblay, Samuel J. Levine
Another Look At Lawyer Discretion To Assist Clients In Unlawful Conduct: A Response To Professor Tremblay, Samuel J. Levine
Scholarly Works
Professor Paul Tremblay’s At Your Service: Lawyer Discretion to Assist Clients in Unlawful Conduct, identifies and explores an apparent gap in the law governing the work of lawyers: the question of whether lawyers may assist clients in unlawful conduct that is not criminal or fraudulent. After introducing the issue through three illustrative scenarios, which he labels “lawbreaking stories,” Professor Tremblay engages in an extensive analysis of the applicable substantive law, relying primarily on ethics codes, which directly regulate the work of lawyers, with additional reference to other sources of law. Having reached the considered conclusion that the law does not …
Happy Birthday Siri! Dialing In Legal Ethics For Artificial Intelligence, Smartphones, And Real Time Lawyers, Jan L. Jacobowitz, Justin Ortiz
Happy Birthday Siri! Dialing In Legal Ethics For Artificial Intelligence, Smartphones, And Real Time Lawyers, Jan L. Jacobowitz, Justin Ortiz
Articles
No abstract provided.
The Ethical Practice Of Human-Centered Civil Justice Design, Victor D. Quintanilla, Haley Hinkle
The Ethical Practice Of Human-Centered Civil Justice Design, Victor D. Quintanilla, Haley Hinkle
Articles by Maurer Faculty
Over the past two decades, legal professionals have increasingly engaged in a new form of professional activity: civil justice design. In the past, legal professionals handled cases and transactions for clients or served as neutrals, including mediators and arbitrators, who helped to resolve disputes between parties. Today, legal professionals increasingly play a principal design role in creating systems that resolve streams of conflicts, disputes, and grievances between parties. Lawyers regularly now create internal grievance procedures, procedures for companies to resolve disputes with customers, and court-annexed alternative dispute resolution systems. The emergence of this new role raises difficult questions about the …
Deliberative Constitutionalism In The National Security Setting, Mary B. Derosa, Milton C. Regan
Deliberative Constitutionalism In The National Security Setting, Mary B. Derosa, Milton C. Regan
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
Deliberative democracy theory maintains that authentic deliberation about matters of public concern is an essential condition for the legitimacy of political decisions. Such deliberation has two features. The first is deliberative rigor. This is deliberation guided by public-regarding reasons in a process in which persons are genuinely open to the force of the better argument. The second is transparency. This requires that requires that officials publicly explain the reasons for their decisions in terms that citizens can endorse as acceptable grounds for acting in the name of the political community.
Such requirements would seem to be especially important in the …