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Louis D. Brandeis And The Lawyer Advocacy System, Robert F. Cochran Jr.

Pepperdine Law Review

The law practice of Louis Brandeis serves as an appropriate vehicle for examining both the history of the legal profession in the United States and the role of lawyers as philanthropists. Brandeis was one of America's most successful and innovative lawyers at the turn of the twentieth century, and serves as a role model for lawyers in his dedication to public service. Brandeis, of course, is best known for his work as a Justice on the United States Supreme Court; however, he is less well known for his work as a lawyer-though he practiced law for 40 years before he …

Bypassing Civil Gideon: A Legislative Proposal To Address The Rising Costs And Unmet Legal Needs Of Unrepresented Immigrants, Erin B. Corcoran

West Virginia Law Review

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A Heretical View Of Teaching: A Contrarian Looks At Teaching, The Carnegie Report, And Best Practices, Gary Shaw

Touro Law Review

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Practicing On Purpose: Promoting Personal Wellness And Professional Values In Legal Education, Gretchen Duhaime

Touro Law Review

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Bewitched By Language: Wittgenstein And The Practice Of Law, Bruce A. Markell

Pepperdine Law Review

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Can The Ordinary Practice Of Law Be A Religious Vocation? A Panelist's Response, Robert J. Conrad Jr

Pepperdine Law Review

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The Wrong Question, John E. Acuff

Pepperdine Law Review

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Reflections On "Can The Ordinary Practice Of Law Be A Religious Calling?", Moshe Kushman

Pepperdine Law Review

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Christian Service In The Practice Of Law, Kenneth W. Starr

Pepperdine Law Review

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Are Lawyers 'Wonderfully Made'?, Kenneth G. Elzinga

Pepperdine Law Review

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Practicing Law As A Christian: Restoration Movement Perspectives, Thomas G. Bost, L. Timothy Perrin

Pepperdine Law Review

The legal profession faces a potential crisis where the professional and personal lives of practicing lawyers are being compartmentalized, with little relationship to or integration with each other, and with sometimes starkly differing standards of conduct and morality. Perrin and Bost argue that a Christian lawyer's commitment to Christ calls them to a standard of conduct higher than or different from the ethical rules propounded by the bar. The article examines the "standard vision" of lawyer conduct and ethical responsibility and summarizes four models of how Christians have adopted in relating to secular culture: in harmony with the code; against …

Pepperdine Commencement Speech, Anthony T. Kronman

Pepperdine Law Review

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Reflections On The Practice Of Law As A Religious Calling, From A Perspective Of Jewish Law And Ethics, Samuel J. Levine

Pepperdine Law Review

This Essay is based on introductory remarks Levine delivered at the inaugural conference of the Pepperdine Institute on Law, Religion, and Ethics, "Can the Ordinary Practice of Law be a Religious Calling?," held on February 6-7, 2004 at Pepperdine University School of Law. In thinking about the practice of law as a religious calling, Levine argues that we should first consider the broader issue of the general relevance of religion to various areas of life, including work. From a perspective of Jewish law and ethics, moral conduct comprises an imperative at home and at the workplace no less than at …

A Larger Calling Still, Lee Hardy

Pepperdine Law Review

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Clients, Courts, And Calling: Rethinking The Practice Of Law, Joseph Allegretti

Pepperdine Law Review

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Introduction: Can The Ordinary Practice Of Law Be A Religious Calling?, Robert F. Cochran Jr

Pepperdine Law Review

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Professional Identity As Advocacy, Robert Rubinson

All Faculty Scholarship

The legal profession adheres to a story of a unified profession. Nevertheless, the profession has distinct professional sub-groups which repeatedly represent clients with interests adverse to those represented by attorneys who identify with other sub-groups. The idea of "professional identity as advocacy" describes how such professional sub-groups accuse opposing subgroups of greed, self-aggrandizement, or worse. This is most notable in two areas: personal injury litigation and criminal cases. This process has two seemingly contradictory consequences. First, it renders narrow areas extraordinarily visible, thus defining popular discourse and conceptions about lawyers and law. Second, it masks vast areas of litigation and …

The Electronic Workplace, Ann C. Hodges

Law Faculty Publications

The American workplace of the twenty-first century is in the midst of a vast transformation not unlike the Industrial Revolution of the late nineteenth century. The United States has moved from a manufacturing-based economy to a knowledge-based economy. This new era has been variously denominated the Technological Revolution, the Electronic Revolution, or the Digital Revolution. Thomas Friedman has described the transformative change as a flattening of the world. Historians will almost certainly have a name for this monumental change in the economy, which, of course, is affecting not only the United Sttttes but many other countries in the world as …

Expecting Too Much And Too Little Of Lawyers, Eugene R. Gaetke

Law Faculty Scholarly Articles

The regulation of lawyers' behavior remains a controversial topic. Over the past hundred years, the organized bar has engaged in a number of efforts to generate rules governing lawyers' conduct. Still, prominent lawyers and jurists, the public media, and legal scholars perceive an ongoing decline in the profession's ethics.

Bar leaders tend to respond to the problem by calling for greater "professionalism" among practicing lawyers. Drawing on professional images from earlier times, they urge lawyers to look beyond the rules and to be more virtuous, selfless, independent of clients, and dedicated to justice.

A number of commentators go further. These …

Eastern Visions, Western Voices: A Sermon On Love In The Valley Of Law, John W. Teeter Jr.

Cleveland State Law Review

This is an appeal to your generation, the generation struggling to make the prolonged and stressful transition from law student to seasoned attorney. This evolution can be painfully despiriting, and I hope that my little sermon will provide ideas on how to transform a potentially grueling struggle for sustenance into a genuine labor of love. My sources stem from divergent roots, both Eastern—Buddhist with pinches of Hindu—and Western— ranging from Platonic to perhaps the moronic. I make no pretense of being an expert in any philosophical school, and I have no desire to indoctrinate others. To the contrary, I aspire …

Origins Of Animal Law: Three Perspectives, Richard J. Katz, Michael C. Blumm, Holly Anne Gibbons

Animal Law Review

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Poor Canadian Legal Education: So Near To Wall Street, So Far From God, Harry W. Arthurs

Osgoode Hall Law Journal

The recent appearance of recruiters from Wall Street firms at several Canadian law schools, and the recent hiring by American law schools of several mid-career Canadian law professors, has created a "moral panic" as journalists, academics and law firms have expressed great concern over the loss of Canada's "best and brightest" to the United States. Properly understood as part of a larger debate about globalization and regional economic integration, these developments are less important in themselves than for what they reveal about the present and future of the Canadian state, and the Canadian business community, legal profession and universities.

The Rule Of Law In An Unruly Age, Craig M. Bradley

Indiana Law Journal

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The Material Basis Of Jurisprudence, Richard A. Posner

Indiana Law Journal

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Eliminating Sex Discrimination In The Legal Profession: The Key To Widespread Social Reform, Suzannah Bex Wilson

Indiana Law Journal

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The Third Man, Philip C. Bobbitt

Faculty Scholarship

Sandy is a divided man. On the one hand he is captivated by the notion of the theoretical and the explanatory, an idea that has captivated all of us since the 17th century. For Descartes, for Newton, for Freud, for Marx, for Levinson: theory is the foundation for understanding, and understanding for practice. How do they calculate the attraction among the planets? They apply the inverse square law according to the theories of Newton. How does Freud cure his patients: he explains to them why they've been behaving so peculiarly; he does this by expositing his theory. How does Marx …

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

Indiana Law Journal

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There Goes The Monopoly: The California Proposal To Allow Nonlawyers To Practice Law, Kathleen E. Justice

Vanderbilt Law Review

Lawyers love to compete, but only with each other. The legal profession consistently has fought outside competition and successfully has controlled competition to ensure professional survival. Lawyers control competition through participation in bar associations, legislatures, and courts. For example, state statutes and bar association regulations' forbid the practice of law by nonlawyerss To enforce this prohibition, all states require that state and professional bar associations certify individuals as competent legal practitioners before they can practice law. Courts generally have upheld these statutes and regulations. Thus, lawyers have succeeded in limiting outside competition.

These limitations, however, may be resulting in denial …

Considering The Costs And Benefits Of Lawyering In Drafting Legislation Or Establishing Precedents, Philip B. Heymann

Villanova Law Review

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Are Citizens Justified In Being Suspicious Of The Law And The Legal System?, William J. Brennan Jr.

University of Miami Law Review

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