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The Professional Liability Crisis And The Need For Professional Limited Liability Companies: Washington's Model Approach, Bryan Smith

Seattle University Law Review

This Comment argues that every state should allow professionals to take advantage of LLC statutes, as Washington has done. Such action will provide protection for accountants and lawyers from the wave of litigation that has surfaced in recent times and to restore an element of confidence to these professions. This Comment further asserts that allowing professionals to use LLC statutes is not only consistent with the duties peculiar to the accounting and legal professions, but also a necessary step when viewed in light of the policies of fairness, efficiency, and public protection. Initially, Part II of this Comment describes the …

Oh, The Times They Are A Changin: The Quiet (R)Evolution Revealed, Nadja Alexander

Research Collection Yong Pung How School Of Law

One wonders if John Rhoades was thinking about lawyers when this was written.Unfortunately (for innovative law teachers at leas~) lawyers often' have a reputation forbeing staid and conservative. Only the passage of time and re-education of lawyers, lawstudents and the public can hope to alter this perception. As role models, law teachers caninfluence students' sense of worth, attitudes, ethics, and professional expectationsenormously. Often this potential sphere of influence is exercised unconsciously, if not,neglected. As a role model, teachers have the perfect opportunity to communicate to theirstudents why their discipline is exciting and why it is worthy of commitment.

Encouraging Personal Responsibility - An Alternative Approach To Teaching Legal Ethics, Christine M. Venter

Journal Articles

Largely as a result of prompting by the American Bar Association ("ABA"), most American law schools now require students to take a class called Professional Responsibility or Legal Ethics before graduation.

The ABA's campaign for a renewed emphasis on ethics stems from a desire that lawyers return to the "principles of professionalism."' How law schools should go about teaching their students these principles has never been as clear, for example, as how to teach students federal taxation. Does one try merely to teach students professional responsibility by covering the rules and tenets contained in the Model Rules and Code, or …

Legal Training Handbook For The Ukrainian Military, Jeffrey F. Addicott

Faculty Articles

In May of 1995, a democracy building project between The Judge Advocate General of Ukraine and United States Army lawyers was completed in Kiev. Over the course of this eight-month project, from September 1994 to May 1995, United States Army judge advocates from the International and Operational Law Division, Office of The Judge Advocate General, worked directly with Colonel Alexander Bokov, Chief, Legal Service of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, in developing a legal training handbook for Ukrainian soldiers.

The handbook, entitled “Code of Conduct for Participants in Military Operations,” now serves as the primary training guide for instructing …

The Superior Orders Defense In Legal Ethics: Sending The Wrong Message To Young Lawyers, Carol Rice Andrews

Articles

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Rounding Up The Usual Suspects: A Review Essay, John F. Hagemann

South Dakota Law Review

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Child Support Enforcement In South Dakota: A Practitioner's Guide, Catherine V. Piersol

South Dakota Law Review

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Comment Letters To Exposure Draft, Proposed Statement Of Position : Environmental Remediation Liabilities (Including Auditing Guidance);, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants. Accounting Standards Executive Committee

Exposure Drafts, Comment Letters, and Statements of Position

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Aicpa Professional Standards: Code Of Professional Conduct And Bylaws As Of June 1, 1995, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants

AICPA Professional Standards

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Foreword, Robinson O. Everett

Law and Contemporary Problems

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Process And Progress: Reviewing The Criminal Justice Act, Edward C. Prado

Law and Contemporary Problems

Prado describes the results of a comprehensive study of the federal defender program and concludes that as the federal criminal justice system evolves, the Criminal Justice Act program must adapt to ever-changing conditions.

An Essay On The New Public Defender For The 21st Century, Charles J. Ogletree Jr.

Law and Contemporary Problems

Funding for public defender services is woefully inadequate. Ogletree offers some anecdotal advice for public defenders and those designing public defender services.

Adoption And Aspiration: The Uniform Adoption Act, The Deboer-Schmidt Case, And The American Quest For The Ideal Family, Joan Heifetz Hollinger

Duke Journal of Gender Law & Policy

When the state must designate a child's legal parentage, should the goal be to protect the biological parents' "opportunity interests" to raise "their" child or to protect the child's established relationships with the individuals who have actually functioned as her parents? What characteristics render an adult an appropriate parent? These questions, long in the background of disputes over adoption, have been raised with new intensity in the early 1990s in two distinctive settings. The first is the debate about these questions waged in the courts and the media. The second is the effort of the National Conference of Commissioners on …

Checklists And Illustrative Financial Statements For Employee Health And Welfare Benefit Plans : A Financial Accounting And Reporting Practice Aid, May 1995 Edition, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants. Technical Information Division, Arthur R. Kappel

Industry Guides (AAGs), Risk Alerts, and Checklists

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Audits Of Employee Benefit Plans With Conforming Changes As Of May 1, 1995; Audit And Accounting Guide:, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants. Employee Benefit Plans Committee

Industry Guides (AAGs), Risk Alerts, and Checklists

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Montana Business Quarterly, Winter 1995, University Of Montana--Missoula. Bureau Of Business And Economic Research

Montana Business Quarterly, 1949-2021

This is an academic publication produced by the Bureau of Business and Economic Research (BBER) at the University of Montana’s College of Business. This is volume 33, number 4.

The Decline Of Professionalism, Warren E. Burger

Fordham Law Review

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Evaluation Of Environmental Health Projects - A Practical Guide., Unknown

Native Health Database Full Text

This document is an alphabetical listing of mental health care resources for Native Americans in Albuquerque.

Poland: An Opportunity For Investment, Tara Monteleone

Graduate Student Dissertations, Theses, Capstones, and Portfolios

The fall of Communism marked a new era for Eastern European countries. The events that followed the 1989 revolutions brought about new economic reforms within this region. However, only a few countries have managed to successfully overcome the shroud their communist predecessors had on their approach to business and industry. Poland is one country that is rapidly overcoming its history.

Poland constitutes one of the largest single markets in Eastern Europe and has the highest growth rate of Central and Eastern Europe (4.1%), as well as the highest GDP of $180.4 billion. It offers direct access to both the former …

Symposium: Legal And Community Services Advocates Working Together To Preserve Families, Columbia University School Of Law, December 1-2, 1994, Marva Hammons, Megan E. Mclaughlin, Geoffrey Canada, Roger L. Green

Journal of Law and Policy

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Rashomon And The Criminal Law: Mental Disability And The Federal Sentencing Guidelines, Michael L. Perlin, Keri K. Gould

Articles & Chapters

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Scenes From The Continuum: Sustaining The Maccrate Report's Vision Of Legal Education Into The Twenty-First Century, J. Michael Norwood

Faculty Scholarship

In 1992, the ABA Task Force on Legal Education and the Profession, under the leadership of its Chairman Robert MacCrate, came out with what has become popularly known as the MacCrate Report. This epochal document has redefined the scope of the current debate on how law school should be taught and what values should make up the core of legal education. In this article, Professor Norwood provides background on the Report and an overview of its contents. He then forecasts the effect it is likely to have in the coming years, noting impediments likely to arise from law schools reluctant …

Whose Dispute Is It Anyway? A Philosophical And Democratic Defense Of Settlement (In Some Cases), Carrie Menkel-Meadow

Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works

I have often thought myself ill-suited to my chosen profession. I love to argue, but I am often too quick to say both, "yes, I see your point" and concede something to the "other side," and to say of my own arguments, "yes, but, it's not that simple." In short, I have trouble with polarized argument, debate, and the adversarialism that characterizes much of our work. Where others see black and white, I often see not just the "grey" but the purple and red-in short, the complexity of human issues that appear before the law for resolution.

In the last …

Rediscovering Client Decisionmaking: The Impact Of Role-Playing, Mary Marsh Zulack

Clinical Law Review

There are more things of importance to representing clients than are disclosed through a typical interview or counseling session, even a session undertaken by a lawyer earnestly attempting to hear rather than ignore the client. We lawyers are often vividly aware, when we pause to contemplate the point, that we do not know all we should about our clients. We may also believe that we have great gulfs of knowledge and experience to cross in order to hear and understand any particular client. Further, we fear that our ability to cross these gulfs is limited by the human, and lawyerly, …

Learning To "Think Like A Lawyer" Through Experience, Jennifer Howard

Clinical Law Review

"I know when he gets out... he will kill me," my client stated, as matter-of-factly as if she had just told me the sky was blue. From across the conference room table I could feel her terror under my own skin. Panicked by her fatalism, I quickly tried to steer the conversation to something I thought I could actually fix-making it more difficult for him to find her by strategizing a plan for her to relocate. She reluctantly followed my new direction, but I could tell she was unsatisfied with my response. This woman suffered with much more complex problems …

Getting Personal In Supervision: Looking For That Fine Line, Jennifer P. Lyman

Clinical Law Review

A distinctly sleazy aura surrounds an advertisement of this sort, even when it appears in the Clinical Law Review. In the clinical tradition of risky self disclosure for the sake of reflection, however, I admit I want to know about my students' lives beyond law school. This urge guided my participation in planning for the opening plenary session of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) Clinical Conference, held in May, 1995. Charged with creating scripts addressing some aspect of "Evaluating Our Supervision," Professor Margaret Martin Barry and I met to plot our course. Professor Barry proposed a scenario in …

A Tribute To W. Haywood Burns And M. Shanara Gilbert: Revolutionaries In The Struggle For Justice, Charles J. Ogletree Jr.

Clinical Law Review

Our two fallen comrades, W. Haywood Burns and M. Shanara Gilbert, whose lives came to a tragic end on April 2, 1996 in South Africa, dedicated their lives to the same struggle. Like Nelson Mandela, they fought for equality, working passionately, relentlessly and unceasingly. Each in their own way, Dean Burns and Professor Gilbert had a profound impact at home and abroad-on the law, law students, lawyers, and the justice system. In the space of these few pages, all too brief to capture their commitment to justice, I will try to describe some of the rich legacy they have left …

Law And English Railway Capitalism: 1825-1875, Jonathan H. Davidson

Dalhousie Journal of Legal Studies

Book review of Law and English Railway Capitalism: 1825-1875 by R.W. Kostal and published by Clarendon Press (Oxford), 1994. (417 pp.)

Law And English Railway Capitalism: 1825-1875, Jonathan H. Davidson

Dalhousie Journal of Legal Studies

Book review of Law and English Railway Capitalism: 1825-1875 by R.W. Kostal and published by Clarendon Press (Oxford), 1994. (417 pp.)

Taking It To The Streets: Putting Discourse Analysis To The Service Of A Public Defender's Office, Clark D. Cunningham, Bonnie S. Mcelhinny

Clinical Law Review

This working paper describes a project initiated at Washington University in March 1995 to analyze and improve the way lawyers interview clients. Although this project is informed by the increasingly rich literature on attorney-client discourse, it will differ from any previous work of which we are aware. In particular, although our project design has been greatly assisted by the thorough and thoughtful report of an interdisciplinary study of attorney-client interviews at the District of Columbia Law School by Gay Gellhorn, Lynne Robins and Pat Roth in a recent issue of the Clinical Law Review (hereafter referred to as "the DC …