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Rationing Justice - What Thomas More Would Say, Michael E. Tigar

Journal of the Institute for the Study of Legal Ethics

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Comments On After Legal Aid Is Abolished, Frank Rosiny

Journal of the Institute for the Study of Legal Ethics

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Should The Government Fund Legal Services - If So, What Should The Lawyers Do, Jonathan A. Weiss

Journal of the Institute for the Study of Legal Ethics

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Legal Ethics: Access To Justice Selected Bibliography

Journal of the Institute for the Study of Legal Ethics

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Front Matter

Journal of the Institute for the Study of Legal Ethics

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Partners Without Power - A Preliminary Look At Black Partners In Corporate Law Firms, David B. Wilkins

Journal of the Institute for the Study of Legal Ethics

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The Lawful And The Just: Moral Implications Of Unequal Access To Legal Services, Kathleen Clark

Journal of the Institute for the Study of Legal Ethics

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Response To Should The Government Fund Legal Services - If So, What Should The Lawyers Do, Michael Horowitz

Journal of the Institute for the Study of Legal Ethics

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About The Authors And Contributors

Journal of the Institute for the Study of Legal Ethics

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Professionalism: Restoring The Flame, Donald L. Burnett Jr.

Articles

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After Legal Aid Is Abolished, Geoffrey C. Hazard Jr.

Journal of the Institute for the Study of Legal Ethics

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Pragmatic Professionalism: An Exercise In Applied Ethics, Amy R. Mashburn

Journal of the Institute for the Study of Legal Ethics

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Plaintiffs' Class Action Attorneys Earn What They Get, Patricia M. Hynes

Journal of the Institute for the Study of Legal Ethics

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Innovative Legal Billing, Alternatives To Billable Hours And Ethical Hurdles, Ronald D. Rotunda

Journal of the Institute for the Study of Legal Ethics

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When Is A Social Worker As Well As A Lawyer Needed, Jack B. Weinstein

Journal of the Institute for the Study of Legal Ethics

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Informal Debate Between Michael Horowitz And Jonathan A. Weiss On Funding Legal Services, Michael Horowitz, Jonathan A. Weiss

Journal of the Institute for the Study of Legal Ethics

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An Informal Discussion On Legal Ethics, Charles W. Wolfram, Ronald D. Rotunda, Burnele V. Powell, Carol M. Langford, Roy Simon

Journal of the Institute for the Study of Legal Ethics

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Corporate-Family Conflicts, Charles W. Wolfram

Journal of the Institute for the Study of Legal Ethics

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A Primer On Mdps: Should The No Rule Become A New Rule, Laurel Terry

Faculty Scholarly Works

This article is the second of four major articles or book chapters that I have written about MDPs. "MDPs" refers to multidisciplinary partnerships or multidisciplinary practices between lawyers and nonlawyers. Prior to 1998, virtually all U.S. states had lawyer discipline rules that prohibited a lawyer from sharing legal fees with a nonlawyer or practicing law in partnership with a nonlawyer. In 1998, however, the American Bar Association created a Commission on Multidisciplinary Practice to reconsider these rules. One impetus for the creation of this Commission was the increasingly large numbers of lawyers who were working for the Big 5 Accounting …

Professionalism: Restoring The Flame, Donald L. Burnett Jr.

Articles

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Professional And Ethical Issues In Legal Externships: Fostering Commitment To Public Service, Lisa G. Lerman

Scholarly Articles

In this Article, I explore the larger issue of professional choices presented to law student externs. Then I explore some of the particular ethical dilemmas that law students and their teachers encounter in externship programs.

The National Association Of Honest Lawyers: An Essay On Honesty, "Lawyer Honesty" And Public Trust In The Legal System, John A. Humbach

Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications

The growing public disquiet about lawyer ethics is not mainly because people think lawyers neglect their professional standards. Rather, the main problem is the belief among lawyers that the duty of loyalty to clients requires a lawyer to mislead. Specifically, the ethical duty of confidentiality and the ethical duty of zealous advocacy are interpreted together to mean that lawyers must conceal some facts (‘confidentiality‘) while forcefully asserting others. This mis-coupling of these two key ethical duties has an inevitable tendency to produce a kind of partial-truth advocacy in which the lawyer knowingly distracts attention from the truth and fosters misconceptions …

Blue-Chip Bilking: Regulation Of Billing And Expense Fraud By Lawyers, Lisa G. Lerman

Scholarly Articles

This study of recent cases of billing and expense fraud confirms the views of David Wilkins, Ted Schneyer, and many other scholars that the disciplinary system performs only one of several needed regulatory functions. The cases demonstrate the need for public and private regulatory responses that not only receive and investigate complaints, but also provide education, prevention, proactive monitoring, and remediation. Lawyers who engage in billing and expense fraud should be fired, disbarred, prosecuted on criminal charges, sued for malpractice. If the public and private organizations that can attend to this problem take it seriously, the norms in the legal …

Rationing Justice—What Thomas More Would Say, Michael E. Tigar

Faculty Scholarship

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The Crime-Fraud Exception To The Attorney-Client Privilege In The Context Of Corporate Counseling, H. Lowell Brown

Kentucky Law Journal

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Competent Legal Writing - A Lawyer's Professional Responsibility, Debra R. Cohen

Journal Articles

The legal profession is constantly evolving to keep pace with our increasingly complex society.' Today, the legal profession "is larger and more diverse than ever before." Despite this transformation, "the law has remained a single profession identified with a perceived common body of learning, skills and values." This common body of learning, skills, and values constitutes the fundamental elements of competent representation. Writing is one of the essential skills of competent representation.

"Law is a profession of words." Lawyers use words, both written and oral, in a wide array of contexts-to advise, to advocate, to elicit information, to establish legal …

Lawyers, Accountants, And The Battle To Own Professional Services, Gary A. Munneke

Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications

Competition between lawyers and accountants is not a new concept. At various times during the past century, these two professions have clashed over the scope and definition of their respective services. Lawyers traditionally have relied upon a professional monopoly to provide “legal” services as a device to exclude nonlawyers from the practice of law. Supported by statutes in many jurisdictions making the unauthorized practice of law a criminal offense and ethics rules prohibiting lawyers from assisting in the unauthorized practice of law, lawyers have always been able to identify some inner sanctum of professional services that only they could handle. …

Can A Religious Person Be A Big Firm Litigator? , Amelia J. Uelmen

Fordham Urban Law Journal

This Essay takes on the challenge of describing some of the ways in which values often defined as "personal" or "religious" can be integrated into the practice of law at a large firm. Part I describes some of the aspects of big firm practice that make it particularly difficult to integrate religious and personal values which may give meaning to one's work. Part II suggests that such meaning can be found through a religious vision of what it means to be a person, which includes a sense of obligation to serve the common good. Part III explores how this concept …

Evaluating Effective Lawyer-Client Communication: An International Project Moving From Research To Reform, Clark D. Cunningham

Faculty Publications By Year

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Religion And The Public Defender, Sadiq Reza

Fordham Urban Law Journal

This essay argues that the public defender should not undertake, or fail to undertake, any action to the legal detriment of a client on the basis of a conflict the attorney perceives between religious and professional responsibility, except for imminent death or serious bodily harm to another. Having accepted the responsibility of representing indigent criminal defendants, the public defender is duty-bound to not compromise that responsibility for competing religious obligations. This argument rests on four premises: (1) the public defender occupies a unique position in our legal system, and options available to private interest lawyers or other clients should not …