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Arkansas Model Rules Of Professional Conduct: An Affirmative Approach To Professional Responsibility, Daniel L. Parker

University of Arkansas at Little Rock Law Review

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Ethical Dilemmas Facing Today's Lawyer, Roger C. Cramton

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

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Attorney-Client Privilege: Issue-Related Waivers, Elizabeth G. Thornburg

Journal of Air Law and Commerce

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Practical Reasoning And Judicial Justification: Toward An Adequate Theory, Vincent A. Wellman

Law Faculty Research Publications

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Private Settlement As Alternative Adjudication: A Rationale For Negotiation Ethics, Robert B. Gordon

University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform

A rule of ethics like the one proposed in this Note takes a step toward this goal. Part I explores the general nature of unethical settlement negotiation, and the inadequate responses offered by both the American Bar Association Model Code of Professional Responsibility and the American Bar Association Model Rules of Professional Conduct. Part II presents a theory for recognizing private settlement negotiation as a substantive component of the adjudicatory process, deserving of all the ethical protections afforded forensic litigation. Part III evaluates certain proposals for reform and responds to various criticisms commonly leveled against efforts to regulate private negotiation …

Accountability And The Adjudication Of The Public Interest, Marshall J. Breger

Scholarly Articles

In these remarks, I will speak briefly about the question of a lawyer's accountability to clients in public interest law. This is the fundamental theoretical problem confronting the public interest law movement, at least from the point of view of traditional models of adjudication.

Client Centered Counseling And Moral Accountability For Lawyers, Robert M. Bastress

Law Faculty Scholarship

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Some Reflections On Conflicts Between Government Attorneys And Clients, Jack B. Weinstein, Gay A. Crosthwait

Touro Law Review

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Sharing Among The Human Capitalists: An Economic Inquiry Into The Corporate Law Firm And How Partners Split Profits, Ronald J. Gilson, Robert H. Mnookin

Faculty Scholarship

Large corporate law firms seem to be in a state of extraordinary flux. Success and failure are both on the rise. Large firms appear to supply a substantial and growing proportion of the legal services consumed by American business enterprises and to hire a significant fraction of the graduating classes of elite American law schools. Moreover, the last twenty years have witnessed a remarkable expansion in both the number of large firms and the absolute size of the biggest. But accompanying this striking success, there are also signs of serious institutional instability. During the last few years, several previously successful …

The Investigation Of Good Moral Character For Admission To The Virginia Bar - Time For A Change, Kristine M. Trevino

University of Richmond Law Review

One of the most essential and critical components of a democratic society is the law profession. Lawyers are charged with the preeminent duty of assisting citizens in the maintenance of their individual rights. Because of a lawyer's "enviable position of prestige and respect," he "enjoy[s] much public confidence and trust." Therefore, society expects, and the profession demands, that only individuals possessing an adequate degree of intelligence, education, and good moral character be permitted to practice law.

How Do You Decide On A Nonlegal Career?, Gary A. Munneke

Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications

Recent surveys have indicated that many young lawyers are dissatisfied with the direction that their careers have taken. There are always other options, and an increasingly attractive choice for many young lawyers is the nonlegal career.

Slippered Feet Aboard The African Queen, Thomas L. Shaffer

Journal Articles

Milner Ball, a professor, has characterized property ownership as “the apparatus of bulwark law.” This Article argues that that characterization was premature. The Author suggests that the bulwark-like difficulties in property law are less the essence of ownership than a perversion of ownership.

Legal Informality And Redistributive Politics, William H. Simon

Faculty Scholarship

Until recently, one of the most consistent themes in both right and left critiques of the legal system has been the repudiation of procedural formality, that is, of specialized, rule-bound procedures. The left critique portrayed formality as facilitating the manipulation of the legal system by the privileged to the disadvantage of others. Both right and left critiques portrayed formality as expressing and fostering alienation and antagonism.

In recent years, however, attitudes toward formality on the left have become increasingly complex and ambivalent. This development may be partly a reaction to the rising prominence of a conservative rhetoric that links proposals …