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The Tension Between Rules And Discretion In Family Law: A Report And Reflection, Carl E. Schneider
The Tension Between Rules And Discretion In Family Law: A Report And Reflection, Carl E. Schneider
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The history of law is many things. But one of them is the story of an unremitting struggle between rules and discretion. The tension between these two approaches to legal problems continues to pervade and perplex the law today. Perhaps nowhere is that tension more pronounced and more troubling than in family law. It is probably impossible to practice family law without wrestling with the imponderable choice between rules and discretion. Consider, for example, how many areas of family law are now being fought over in-just those terms. For decades we have lived with an abundantly discretionary way of resolving …
Unmasking The Matching Principle In Tax Law, Julie Roin
Unmasking The Matching Principle In Tax Law, Julie Roin
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The Material Basis Of Jurisprudence, Richard A. Posner
Your Money Or Your Life: A Modest Proposal For Mandatory Pro Bono Services, Mary I. Coombs
Your Money Or Your Life: A Modest Proposal For Mandatory Pro Bono Services, Mary I. Coombs
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Impoverished Practices, Anthony V. Alfieri
Criminalizing The American Juvenile Court, Barry C. Feld
Criminalizing The American Juvenile Court, Barry C. Feld
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Progressive reformers envisioned a therapeutic juvenile court that made individualized treatment decisions in the child's "best interests." The Supreme Court's Gault decision provided the impetus for transforming the juvenile court from an informal welfare agency into a scaled-down criminal court. Since Gault, the juvenile court procedures increasingly resemble those of adult courts, although in some respects, such as assistance of counsel, juveniles receive less adequate protections. Judicial and legislative changes have altered the juvenile court's jurisdiction over noncriminal status offenders and serious young offenders-as the former are diverted from the system, the latter are transferred to adult criminal courts. Juvenile …
Irs Tax Exemptions And Affordable Housing: Old Standards For New Times, Janet Stearns, Doreen Fundiller-Zweif
Irs Tax Exemptions And Affordable Housing: Old Standards For New Times, Janet Stearns, Doreen Fundiller-Zweif
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The Use Of Advance Fee Attorney Retainer Agreements In Bankruptcy: Another Special Law For Lawyers?, Lester Brickman, Jonathan Klein
The Use Of Advance Fee Attorney Retainer Agreements In Bankruptcy: Another Special Law For Lawyers?, Lester Brickman, Jonathan Klein
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From the time that the first lawyers set foot in what is now the United States, society has engaged in efforts to regulate lawyers' fees, including fees received from clients in bankruptcy proceedings. Lawyers, in turn, have been engaged in continuing efforts to: secure their self-interests, aggrandize their role in society, be free of societally imposed constraints on their fees and activities, and carve out an ever larger area of exclusive domain. Although lawyers have not fared as well in their recent efforts to extend the scope of their monopoly by the use of statutes that prohibit the unauthorized practice …
Setting The Fee When The Client Discharges A Contingent Fee Attorney, Lester Brickman
Setting The Fee When The Client Discharges A Contingent Fee Attorney, Lester Brickman
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The bold and precedent-setting case of Martin v. Camp endowed the attorney-client relationship with the legacy of the "client discharge rule"; it provides that a client can discharge his attorney at any time without cause and without penalty. The predicate of the rule is that trust and confidence are essential features of the attorney-client relationship. If that trust and confidence dissipate, the client should not be forced to continue to confide in and rely upon that attorney. Accordingly, the client should not be penalized financially if he elects to change attorneys. The discharged attorney, precluded from realizing the contingent percentage …
Plea Bargaining As Compromise, Frank H. Easterbrook
Disabled Clients, Disabling Lawyers, Anthony V. Alfieri
Disabled Clients, Disabling Lawyers, Anthony V. Alfieri
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The Burdens Of Educational Loans: The Impacts Of Debt On Job Choice And Standards Of Living For Students At Nine American Law Schools, David L. Chambers
The Burdens Of Educational Loans: The Impacts Of Debt On Job Choice And Standards Of Living For Students At Nine American Law Schools, David L. Chambers
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American law students are borrowing large sums of money. For graduates at many schools, cumulative debts of $40,000 from college and law school have become the norm, and debts of $50,000, $60,000, 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 considerably faster pace than the starting salaries at small law firms and government agencies. They have even risen at a faster pace than the starting salaries in many large firms. The new pattern …
Tales Of Two Cities: Aids And The Legal Recognition Of Domestic Partnerships In San Francisco And New York, David L. Chambers
Tales Of Two Cities: Aids And The Legal Recognition Of Domestic Partnerships In San Francisco And New York, David L. Chambers
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Here are two stories. They are of the quite different ways that domestic partnerships of lesbian and gay couples have come to be recognized, for some purposes, in San Francisco and New York City. I tell the stories for their own sake, but with a particular focus on the role that AIDS played in the political process in each city.
The Fall And Rise Of The Criminal Contingent Fee, Peter Lushing
The Fall And Rise Of The Criminal Contingent Fee, Peter Lushing
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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.
Taxes, Agency Costs, And The Price Of Incorporation, Saul Levmore, Hideki Kanda
Taxes, Agency Costs, And The Price Of Incorporation, Saul Levmore, Hideki Kanda
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Crisis In The Criminal Justice System The Socio-Economic Struggle For Equality, Randolph N. Stone
Crisis In The Criminal Justice System The Socio-Economic Struggle For Equality, Randolph N. Stone
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Adjudication In Independent Tribunals: The Role Of An Alternative Agency Structure, Daniel J. Gifford
Adjudication In Independent Tribunals: The Role Of An Alternative Agency Structure, Daniel J. Gifford
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Much present-day administrative adjudication takes place in a procedural context which is significantly different from that of the traditional regulatory agency. 1 In agency proceedings ranging from administrative enforcement under the Occupational Safety and Health Act to the resolution of claims under the veterans benefits acts, adjudication is conducted by tribunals which are practically and often formally independent of the administering or enforcement authority. Appeals or review functions are performed either by other independent administrative bodies or the courts. In the classic regulatory agencies the opposite was the case. In those agencies, the agency head invariably held the power of …
Legal Education: An Illusion, Judith T. Younger
Musings On A Clinic Report: A Selective Agenda For Clinical Legal Education In The 1990'S, Stephen F. Befort
Musings On A Clinic Report: A Selective Agenda For Clinical Legal Education In The 1990'S, Stephen F. Befort
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These are the alleged decline in live-client clinical education, the educational objectives of clinical education, the financing of clinics, the appropriate status for clinical faculty, and the relationships between clinical and nonclinical faculty. The report revealed that student demand for clinical instruction has not declined. It also identified eight pedagogical goals and a public-service goal for live-client clinical education. In addition, it recommended a strong effort to obtain increased financial support through Federal grants. Furthermore, it noted that the status of clinical faculty has improved considerably at many law schools, but the issue of faculty status will continue to be …
Post-Trial Motions In Private Antitrust Actions: A Practitioner's Guide, John E. Rumel
Post-Trial Motions In Private Antitrust Actions: A Practitioner's Guide, John E. Rumel
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Foreword - Vanishing Civil Jury, The The Role Of The Jury In Civil Dispute Resolution - Introduction, Albert Alschuler
Foreword - Vanishing Civil Jury, The The Role Of The Jury In Civil Dispute Resolution - Introduction, Albert Alschuler
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Speaking Out Of Turn: The Story Of Josephine V., Anthony V. Alfieri
Speaking Out Of Turn: The Story Of Josephine V., Anthony V. Alfieri
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The Politics Of Clinical Knowledge, Anthony V. Alfieri
Reconstructive Poverty Law Practice: Learning Lessons Of Client Narrative, Anthony V. Alfieri
Reconstructive Poverty Law Practice: Learning Lessons Of Client Narrative, Anthony V. Alfieri
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John Payne's Dream: A Brief History Of The University Of Alabama - School Of Law Library, 1887-1980, With Emphasis Upon Collection-Building, Paul M. Pruitt Jr., Penny Calhoun Gibson
John Payne's Dream: A Brief History Of The University Of Alabama - School Of Law Library, 1887-1980, With Emphasis Upon Collection-Building, Paul M. Pruitt Jr., Penny Calhoun Gibson
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Kevin E. Kennedy, David L. Chambers
Kevin E. Kennedy, David L. Chambers
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Our first encounter was on one of Kevin's many triumphant days during law school. Kevin, then a second year student, had advanced to the final round of the Campbell Competition, the moot court competition in which students brief and argue a case as if before the United States Supreme Court. I was one of the five "justices" who heard the case. The others were the dean and three distinguished appellate judges. Four students presented oral arguments and all were fine, but, Kevin's, the "Justices" agreed, was simply of a different order.
Attorney-Client Fee Arbitration: A Dissenting View, Lester Brickman
Attorney-Client Fee Arbitration: A Dissenting View, Lester Brickman
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No single issue between lawyer and client arises more frequently or generates more public resentment than fee problems. Ethical tenets urge lawyers to resolve fee 4isputes without resort to litigation. Where such procedures exist, attorneys are admonished to submit disputes to arbitration. In several jurisdictions, arbitration has gained endorsement from bar associations as the preferred method of fee dispute resolution.
When A Story Is Just A Story: Does Voice Really Matter, Richard Delgado
When A Story Is Just A Story: Does Voice Really Matter, Richard Delgado
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Bart Bartosic: What You See Is Not What You Get, Theodore J. St. Antoine
Bart Bartosic: What You See Is Not What You Get, Theodore J. St. Antoine
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With "Bart" Bartosic, what you see is not necessarily what you get. Anyone even vaguely acquainted with him knows I am not talking about duplicity; on occasion, Bart can be almost painfully forthright. Nonetheless, on first meeting, most persons are likely to view him as the very soul of politesse - perhaps actually too deferential and accommodating. Yet behind that beguiling exterior can be found a backbone of cast iron, a mind like a steel trap, and (to extend the metallic figure) a willingness, when the situation demands, to be as hard as nails in dealing with either ideas or …
Contingent Fees Without Contingencies: Hamlet Without The Prince Of Demark?, Lester Brickman
Contingent Fees Without Contingencies: Hamlet Without The Prince Of Demark?, Lester Brickman
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According to conventional wisdom virtually all contingent fee percentages exceeding fifty percent are illegal and excessive, but most lower percentages are valid. This Article challenges the conventional wisdom, an amalgam of the unassailability of the standard one-third rate, notions of fairness versus price gouging, lawyer effort versus lawyer' reward, and the right of a lawyer to contract freely for a fee. It advances instead two propositions for determining the legitimacy of contingent fees. The first is that for a contingent fee to be valid, there must be an actual contingency, which means a realistic risk of nonrecovery. Though this proposition …