Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®
- Keyword
-
- Legal ethics (2)
- ABA (1)
- American Bar Association (1)
- Attorney and client (1)
- Cedar Rapids (1)
-
- Common good (1)
- Disbarment (1)
- Egyptian Justice System – Judicial Appointment and Judicial Training – Judicial Independence and Judicial Accountability – The Higher Council for Judicial Bodies – The NTA National Training Academy – Comparative Judicial Councils – Comparative Judicial Schools – The NJA National Judicial Academy – The ENM Ecole Nationale de la Magistrature – Escuela Judicial Consejo General del Poder Judicial (1)
- Iowa Supreme Court (1)
- John Randall (1)
- Lawyer misconduct (1)
- Lawyers--Discipline (1)
- Legal history (1)
- Legal profession (1)
- Lovell Myers (1)
- Michael Ariens (1)
- St. Mary's University School of Law (1)
- Statement on Professional Responsibility (1)
- Publication Type
Articles 1 - 3 of 3
Full-Text Articles in Legal Profession
Appointing And Training Judges In Egypt And Comparative Systems, Moataz Muhammad Al-Saghir Aidaros
Appointing And Training Judges In Egypt And Comparative Systems, Moataz Muhammad Al-Saghir Aidaros
Theses and Dissertations
The topic of the paper is very important, as it comes up at a time when the Egyptians have come to a point that reforming Egypt’s justice system is a hopeless case. This is due to the outdated and inefficient way of thinking and performing in the judiciary. Thus the goal of this paper is to make an intellectual contribution to a sustainable reform program of the Egyptian judiciary and namely the systems of judicial appointment and judicial training using their roles as agents of progress and development. This aspiring research argues that the Higher Council of Judicial Entities and …
Toward More Robust Self-Regulation Within The Legal Profession, Veronica Root Martinez, Caitlin-Jean Juricic
Toward More Robust Self-Regulation Within The Legal Profession, Veronica Root Martinez, Caitlin-Jean Juricic
Faculty Scholarship
The Trump Administration left reverberations throughout American life, and the legal profession was not insulated from its impact. The conduct of lawyers—both public and private—working on behalf of former President Trump was the subject of constant conversation and critique. The reality, however, is that the questions regarding the conduct of the Trump Administration lawyers, are rooted, in part, in more fundamental questions about the appropriate role of the lawyer within society. This Essay advocates for the adoption of a self-regulation scheme whereby lawyers regulate and oversee the conduct of other lawyers, to ensure that members of the legal profession are …
The Fall Of An American Lawyer, Michael Ariens
The Fall Of An American Lawyer, Michael Ariens
Faculty Articles
John Randall is the only former president of the American Bar Association to be disbarred. He wrote a will for a client, Lovell Myers, with whom Randall had been in business for over a quarter-century. The will left all of Myers’s property to Randall, and implicitly disinherited his only child, Marie Jensen. When Jensen learned of the existence of a will, she sued to set it aside. She later filed a complaint with the Iowa Committee on Professional Ethics and Conduct. That complaint was the catalyst leading to Randall’s disbarment.
Randall had acted grievously in serving as Lovell Myers’s attorney. …