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Ethics Year In Review, Sheara Gelman

Santa Clara Law Review

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The Future Debate On Multidisciplinary Practice In The United States, Sydney M. Cone Iii.

Articles & Chapters

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Stepping Outside The Box: Viewing Your Client In A Whole New Light, Michael L. Perlin

Articles & Chapters

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Chronicling A Movement: 20 Years Of Lesbian/Gay Law Notes, Arthur S. Leonard

Articles & Chapters

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Johnny's In The Basement/Mixing Up His Medicine: Therapeutic Jurisprudence And Clinical Teaching, Keri K. Gould, Michael L. Perlin

Articles & Chapters

Clinical legal education is both more exhilarating and more stressful than "traditional" legal education. It forces students to confront their pre-existing assumptions about the practice of law and the representation of clients (frequently, indigent and marginalized individuals), and it similarly forces them to integrate new doctrine, theory, and practice in a very different way than "regular" law classes demand.

Therapeutic jurisprudence considers the role of the law as a therapeutic agent, and examines all aspects of the legal system in an effort to determine whether it is operating therapeutically or anti-therapeutically, and suggests that legal decision-makers consider the potential impact …

Truth And Consequences, Stephen Ellmann

Articles & Chapters

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Incitement To Hatred: Should There Be A Limit, Nadine Strossen

Articles & Chapters

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Consumer Privacy, James M. Mccauley

Richmond Journal of Law & Technology

Pretty scary. This whole business of technology and privacy. I don't know about you but it makes me think about that John Grimes song where he wanted to blow up the TV, throw away the paper, and move to the country. I think that there are probably some things that we can do and that we cannot do. One of the things that comes to mind in listening to my colleagues talk about the shutdown of the dotcoms, last year Congress overhauled the 65 year prohibition against insurance companies not being permitted to get involved in financial services and banking. …

Adr: An Eclectic Array Of Processes, Rather Than One Eclectic Process, Lela P. Love, Kimberlee K. Kovach

Articles

When mediators try to resolve a controversy by providing their analysis of the legal – or other – merits, they are providing the service that judges, arbitrators and neutral experts provide. In essence, such endeavors use the neutral’s judgment, award or opinion to determine or jump-start a resolution. This article urges that this add-on activity to mediation should be called by its proper name. The essay highlights the advantages of calling "mediation plus evaluation" a mixed process and discusses the advantages of having an eclectic and diverse mix of processes from which parties and counsel can choose to promote party …

Informal Aggregation: Procedural And Ethical Implications Of Coordination Among Counsel In Related Lawsuits, Howard M. Erichson

Faculty Scholarship

Even when related claims are not aggregated by any formal procedural mechanism, the lawyers involved in the separate lawsuits often coordinate their efforts. Such "informal aggregation" raises important questions about the boundaries of a dispute and the boundaries of the lawyer-client relationship. As an ethical matter, the central question is whether a lawyer owes ethical duties to a coordinating lawyer's client. Looking at confidentiality, loyalty, conflicts of interest, and malpractice, Professor Erichson suggests that ethical safeguards for clients of coordinating lawyers are neither strong enough nor explicit enough to provide adequate protection, and the problem inheres in the nature of …

Looking Forward, Jay Tidmarsh

Journal Articles

My task, as I understand it, is to make some observations about where complex litigation might head in the future - and some suggestions about how we might do our work today to make that future better. As I write this paper, I realize, of course, that this task is an impossible one. It is not impossible to imagine any of a number of possible futures for complex litigation; indeed, I spend a great deal of time imagining multiple possible futures. Since I am writing a month in advance of the conference, however, it is impossible to connect the ideas …

Living Trusts In The Unauthorized Practice Of Law: A Good Thing Gone Bad, Angela M. Vallario

Maryland Law Review

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Denying Access To Legal Representation: The Attack On The Tulane Environmental Law Clinic, Robert R. Kuehn

Scholarship@WashULaw

When people require assistance to advance public interests, rather than private interests, the lack of legal representation is even more severe—less than .001% of lawyers in the legal profession are public interest lawyers. “Although recent data are unavailable, the best available estimates suggest that the number of full-time public interest lawyers is less than one attorney for every 240,000 Americans.” Citizens advancing issues of public concern often have no choice but to turn for free assistance from law school professors or one of the nation’s law school clinics.

Clinical Education For This Millennium: The Third Wave, Peter A. Joy, Margaret Martin Barry, Jon C. Dubin

Scholarship@WashULaw

This article focuses on the continuing transformation of legal education and the role of clinical legal education in training competent, ethical practitioners. Part I examines the primary challenges that clinicians confronted in the past: to create a clinical legal education teaching methodology and to establish viable, enduring clinical programs in law schools throughout the country. Part II discusses a variety of different models for integrating clinical methodology either throughout the curriculum or as a core feature of the curriculum. Part III analyzes a variety of the most pressing challenges and opportunities for clinical legal education and the larger enterprise of …

In Memoriam: Gary Bellow, Beatrice A. Moulton, Gerald E. Frug, John D. Hamilton Jr.

Faculty Scholarship

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Recent Tax Developments In The Taxation Of Corporations And Shareholders, Daniel J. Lathrope

Faculty Scholarship

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Reflections On Being A Law School Dean In An Interconnected World, Claudio Grossman

Scholarly Articles in Law Reviews & Journals

After reaching a certain level of momentum, a law school can pretty much run itself. Even in the absence of leadership, the law school will continue to function as it has in the past; students will come each year, and classes will be held. A sort of inertia results, in which nothing changes; things continue as they always have. Inertia is a dangerous thing in education, and it is the responsibility of the law school's dean to prevent it. A law school dean is charged with contributing to the development of a vision that will guide the law school in …

Central Florida Future, Orientation 2000

Central Florida Future

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Proposed Statement Of Position : Accounting By Insurance Enterprises For Demutualizations And Formations Of Mutual Insurance Holding Companies And For Certain Long-Duration Participating Contracts;Accounting By Insurance Enterprises For Demutualizations And Formations Of Mutual Insurance Holding Companies And For Certain Long-Duration Participating Contracts; Exposure Draft (American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants), 2000, Apr. 3, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants. Accounting Standards Executive Committee, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants. Demutualization Task Force

Exposure Drafts, Comment Letters, and Statements of Position

This proposed Statement of Position (SOP) provides guidance on accounting by insurance enterprises for demutualizations and the formation of mutual insurance holding companies (MIHC). The proposed SOP also applies to stock insurance enterprises that apply SOP 95-1, Accounting for Certain Insurance Activities of Mutual Life Insurance Enterprises, to account for participating policies that meet the criteria of paragraph 5 of SOP 95-1. The proposed SOP specifies the following: 1. Financial statement presentation of the closed block. Closed block assets, liabilities, revenues, and expenses should be displayed together with all other assets, liabilities, revenues, and expenses of the insurance enterprise based …

Comment Letters Re: Statements Of Independence Concepts, Indendence Standards Board

Exposure Drafts, Comment Letters, and Statements of Position

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Construction Contractors Industry Developments - 2000/01; Audit Risk Alerts, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants. Auditing Standards Division

Industry Guides (AAGs), Risk Alerts, and Checklists

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Real Estate Industry Developments - 2000/01; Audit Risk Alerts, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants

Industry Guides (AAGs), Risk Alerts, and Checklists

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Checklists And Illustrative Financial Statements For Health And Welfare Benefit Plans : A Financial Accounting And Reporting Practice Aid, July 2000 Edition, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants. Accounting And Auditing Publications, Linda Delahanty

Industry Guides (AAGs), Risk Alerts, and Checklists

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Aicpa Professional Standards: Code Of Professional Conduct And Bylaws As Of June 1, 2000, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants

AICPA Professional Standards

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Caught Between Two Systems: How Exceptional Children In Out-Of-Home Care And Denied Equality In Education, Cynthia Godsoe

Faculty Scholarship

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The Costs Of Confidentiality And The Purpose Of Privilege, Melanie B. Leslie

Articles

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Learning And Serving: Pro Bono Legal Services By Law Students, David L. Chambers, Cynthia F. Adcock

Articles

All lawyers' codes of professional ethics in the United States expect members of the bar to perform legal services for low-income persons. In practice, as we all know, many lawyers perform a great deal of such service while others do little or none. By much the same token, the accreditation rules of the American Bar Association urge all law schools to provide students with opportunities to do pro bono legal work; by much the same token, some schools in the United States have extensive programs for their students but many do not. In 1998, the Association of American Law Schools …

Building Pediatric Law Careers: The University Of Michigan Law School Experience, Melissa Breger, Suellyn Scarnecchia, Frank E. Vandervort, Naomi Woloshin

Articles

There are several obstacles to training and supporting pediatric lawyers. Children are a relatively new group of clients and law schools have not traditionally provided pediatric training. The required training is particularly challenging to deliver because it is inherently interdisciplinary, requiring faculty and students to look outside of the law school to obtain necessary knowledge. The greatest obstacle to developing the careers of pediatric lawyers is the low pay and low prestige typically afforded children's lawyers. As a result, law students reasonably question the likelihood of developing a successful career in the field. The number of available jobs is limited …

New Brunswick (Minister Of Health And Community Services) V. G.(J.): En Route To More Equitable Access To The Legal System, Patricia Hughes

Journal of Law and Social Policy

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The Ethical Role And Responsibilities Of A Lawyer-Ethicist Revisited: The Case Of The Independent Counsel's Neutral Expert Consultant, Samuel Dash

Fordham Law Review

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