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Defense Counsel As Prosecution Witness: A Combined Doctrine To Govern Attorney Disclosure, David B. Merchant

Washington Law Review

Prosecutors have increasingly used grand juries to compel defense attorneys to disclose client administrative data such as clients' names, fee amounts, or third-party fee payments. A majority of the federal circuit courts protect administrative information only if disclosure would reveal the substance of previous attorney-client conversations. In contrast, a minority of the circuits protect such information when disclosure would incriminate a client in the case at bar. This Comment argues that neither of the current doctrines accomplishes the goals of the attorney-client privilege. Instead, a doctrine that combines the majority and minority views would more effectively promote the policies underlying …

Gatekeepers Of The Profession: An Empirical Profile Of The Nation's Law Professors, Robert J. Borthwich, Jordan Schau

University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform

Part I of this Note surveys the existing body of literature on legal education, with a particular emphasis on previous empirical studies concerning law professors. Part II focuses on the increasing number of women in the teaching profession. Part III looks at the nonteaching experience of law teachers, including judicial clerkships, private practice, government experience, and public interest experience. Finally, Part IV examines the influence of "elite schools" in law school hiring and tenure decisions.

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

Indiana Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Great Expectations: Women In The Legal Profession: A Commentary On State Studies, Ann J. Gellis

Indiana Law Journal

No abstract provided.

The Fall And Rise Of The Criminal Contingent Fee, Peter Lushing

Articles

The article argues that the ban on contingent fees for criminal defense attorneys, established by the American Bar Association in 1969, is outdated and should be repealed. It contends that the ban is rooted in historical prejudice and unfounded concerns about conflicts of interest, rather than empirical evidence. The author suggests that the Supreme Court's 1989 decision implicitly approving contingent fees in certain criminal cases presents an opportunity to reconsider this prohibition. Repealing the ban could benefit middle-class defendants and allow for regulation and data collection to address potential issues.

Mandatory Pro Bono, Roger C. Cramton

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

Should lawyers be required to devote a portion of their time or money to public service activities? This issue, commonly referred to as "mandatory pro bono," is much discussed these days. The purpose of this article is to illuminate the policychoices before the profession by surveying the arguments for and against mandatory pro bono.

Vol. 15, No. 1 (April 1991)

Exordium

No abstract provided.

Volume 14, Issue 1 (Spring 1991)

Transcript

No abstract provided.

Fifth Annual Scholarship Dinner Dance Program "Leaders Committed To Change & Challenge In The 90'S", Las Vegas Chapter Of The National Bar Association

Subsequent Scholarship Banquets

1991 - 5th Annual Scholarship Dinner Dance Program.

Class Of 1991 Five Year Report, University Of Michigan Law School

UMLS Alumni Survey Class Reports

This report summarizes the findings of a questionnaire sent to University of Michigan Law School alumni five years after graduation.

Class Of 1991 Five Year Report Alumni Comments, University Of Michigan Law School

UMLS Alumni Survey Class Reports

This addendum is a compilation of alumni responses to the open-ended comments sections.

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 …

Legal Issues Confronting Families Affected By Hiv, 24 J. Marshall L. Rev. 543 (1991), James Monroe Smith

UIC Law Review

No abstract provided.

Missed Manners In Courtroom Decorum, Catherine Thérèse Clarke

Maryland Law Review

No abstract provided.

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

Villanova Law Review (1956 - )

No abstract provided.

A Profession At Risk, Roger J. Miner '56

Lawyers and the Legal Profession

No abstract provided.

Debts, Job Choices, And Financial Burden: Educational Debts At Nine American Law Schools, David L. Chambers

Books

American law students are borrowing large sums of money. For graduates at many schools, cumulative debts of $35,000 from college and law school have become the norm and debts of $40,000, $50,000 and even more are common. The sums students are borrowing are much larger today than they were ten years ago, even after adjusting for increases in the cost of living. They have risen at a vastly faster pace than the initial salaries at small law firms and government agencies. They have even risen at a faster pace than the initial salaries in many large firms. The new pattern …

Kentucky Lawyer, 1991, University Of Kentucky College Of Law

Annual Magazines

No abstract provided.

Wanted: Advertising Rules For Profession In Flux - The Supreme Court As Applicant, Ellen Y. Suni

Faculty Works

No abstract provided.

Capturing The Literature Of The Bar: A Proposal For Library Package Plans, Georgia Briscoe

Publications

Publications of state and local bar associations are difficult for libraries to acquire and maintain because bar associations' publication activities are often not centralized. Standing orders or package plans will enhance services of bar associations. The American Bar Association and Illinois State Bar Association offer models for other states to follow.

Punishing Ethical Violations: Aggravating And Mitigating Factors, H. Patrick Furman

Publications

No abstract provided.

Inaugural Howard Lichtenstein Lecture In Legal Ethics: Lawyer Professionalism As A Moral Argument, Thomas L. Shaffer

Journal Articles

The recurrent movement to call or recall lawyers to professionalism is a moral argument. It is an argument made to individual lawyers, a claim among lawyers, that professionalism has to do with being a good person.

I see two aspects to the claim that professionalism is a moral value: one aspect says to a person "be professional." It is an admonition to virtue. The other aspect says to a person, "be in the profession—be of it," with an appeal that seems familiar from other admonitions we have heard to align ourselves with groups that are supposed to make us better …

Pro Bono Representation And The Government Lawyer, Marshall J. Breger

Scholarly Articles

No abstract provided.

Public Service By Public Servants, Lisa G. Lerman

Scholarly Articles

No abstract provided.

Book Review Of A Radical Lawyer In Victorian England: W. P. Roberts And The Struggle For Workers' Rights By Raymond Challinor, W. Wesley Pue

All Faculty Publications

This essay assesses the history of one of Britain's most important lawyers for the working class through a critical review of Raymond Challinor's ground-breaking work. The life of W. P. Roberts spanned crucial decades of the nineteenth Century. Admitted to the lower branch of the legal profession in Bath in 1827 W. P. Roberts converted from Toryism in the first decade of his professional life to emerge as a leading figure in the Bath Working Men's Association by 1837. Apparently motivated by a deeply-held Christian belief in an essential human dignity, Roberts' consistently employed the law as a shield in …

New York Law School Reporter, November 1990, New York Law School

Student Newspapers

No abstract provided.

Clark Memorandum: Fall 1990, J. Reuben Clark Law Society, J. Reuben Clark Law School

The Clark Memorandum

• Acquired by Character, Not by Money (Kenneth W. Starr)
• Fundamentals and Initiatives (Elder Russell M. Nelson)
• Christ and the Code (Joseph G. Allegretti)
• Truth: a Shield to Memory (Elder Marion D. Hanks)

Women Lawyers And The Quest For Professional Identity In Late Nineteenth-Century America, Virginia G. Drachman

Michigan Law Review

Whenever Lelia Robinson, a nineteenth-century woman lawyer, prepared to take a case to court, she faced a particular problem what to do about her hat. "Shall the woman attorney wear her hat when arguing a case or making a motion in court," she asked in 1888, "or shall she remove it?" Robinson's question was not a frivolous matter of fashion, but a serious concern to every woman lawyer who entered the courtroom. As a proper lady of her day, it was not only appropriate that she wear a hat in public, it was expected of her. But as a lawyer, …

Attorney's Fees Under The Surface Mining Control And Reclamation Act Of 1977: A Primer, E. Ann Compton Keel

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.

Margaret Bush Wilson: Advocate, Counselor, Friend, Margaret Bush Wilson, Kenneth R. Wallentine

Brigham Young University Journal of Public Law

Introduction by Kevin R. Wallentine.
Text of Address to Students and Faculty of the J. Reuben Clark Law School on January 18, 1990 by Margaret Bush Wilson.