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Who Watches The Watchmen? Using The Law Governing Lawyers To Identify The Applicant Duty Gap And Hold Bar Examiner Gatekeepers Accountable, Ashley M. London
Who Watches The Watchmen? Using The Law Governing Lawyers To Identify The Applicant Duty Gap And Hold Bar Examiner Gatekeepers Accountable, Ashley M. London
Law Faculty Publications
The legal profession holds lawyers to high standards in their personal and professional lives and expects aspiring members to follow the ethical rules with scrupulous precision and candor. Yet the profession, and those monitoring admission to the profession, afford no protections or recourse to this class of young professionals during that critical period between graduation and successful bar passage.
Without reform, this previously unacknowledged duty gap will continue to demoralize and potentially harm future lawyers and reflect negatively on the profession as a whole. Supervising bodies, discussed within, treat applicants as if they have already committed an ethical breach. Indeed, …
How To Raise Disagreements With Senior Attorneys, Richard L. Heppner Jr.
How To Raise Disagreements With Senior Attorneys, Richard L. Heppner Jr.
Law Faculty Publications
As a new attorney, you may receive assignments from your supervising attorney like:
• find a case that stands for this legal argument,
• draft the section of the brief arguing that the court has no jurisdiction, or
• write a client memo explaining why this asset purchase is a good idea.
Sometimes you will discover that the initial assignment isn’t necessarily the best approach. This paper discusses how to engage your supervising attorney in a such situations.
Ai Report: Humanity Is Doomed. Send Lawyers, Guns, And Money!, Ashley M. London
Ai Report: Humanity Is Doomed. Send Lawyers, Guns, And Money!, Ashley M. London
Law Faculty Publications
AI systems are powerful technologies being built and implemented by private corporations motivated by profit, not altruism. Change makers, such as attorneys and law students, must therefore be educated on the benefits, detriments, and pitfalls of the rapid spread, and often secret implementation of this technology. The implementation is secret because private corporations place proprietary AI systems inside of black boxes to conceal what is inside. If they did not, the popular myth that AI systems are unbiased machines crunching inherently objective data would be revealed as a falsehood. Algorithms created to run AI systems reflect the inherent human categorization …
Something Wicked This Way Thumbs: Personal Contact Concerns Of Text-Based Attorney Marketing, Ashley M. London
Something Wicked This Way Thumbs: Personal Contact Concerns Of Text-Based Attorney Marketing, Ashley M. London
Law Faculty Publications
When the American Bar Association (ABA) announced its latest revisions to Model Rules 7.1–7.5, governing attorney advertising, solicitation, and information about legal services in general, the organization may have unintentionally created a way for attorneys to hack directly into the brains of potential clients for purposes of pecuniary gain.
Brushing aside decades of precedent, the rule on Solicitation of Clients now allows real-time electronic solicitation, including text messaging and tweets. These developments beg the question of whether or not the ABA committee charged with redefining this rule actually understands the power and pervasiveness of cell phones, or how the use …
Solving Your Ethical Conundrums: Researching The Rules Of Professional Conduct, Joyce Manna Janto
Solving Your Ethical Conundrums: Researching The Rules Of Professional Conduct, Joyce Manna Janto
Law Faculty Publications
Ms. Janto provides a practical guide to researching issues of attorney professional responsibilities using both print and online resources, emphasizing Virginia rules and decisions.
What We Didn't See Before, Allison Anna Tait
What We Didn't See Before, Allison Anna Tait
Law Faculty Publications
The essays in this Issue concentrate on a primary, and crucial, cluster of analytic concerns about the ways in which governments, artists, and architects have chosen to represent the concept of justice.
The Pragmatically Virtuous Lawyer?, Robert F. Blomquist
The Pragmatically Virtuous Lawyer?, Robert F. Blomquist
Law Faculty Publications
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The Ermine And Woolsack: Disciplinary Proceedings Involving Judges, Attorney-Magistrates, And Other Judicial Figures, David R. Cleveland, Jason Masimore
The Ermine And Woolsack: Disciplinary Proceedings Involving Judges, Attorney-Magistrates, And Other Judicial Figures, David R. Cleveland, Jason Masimore
Law Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.