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Foreward: Access To Justice As A Focus Of Research, Bryant G. Garth, Mauro Cappelletti

Articles by Maurer Faculty

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Law Deans' "Open Letter" Tells Of Student Skills Training Plan, Sheldon J. Plager, Frank T. Read, David T. Link, Charles A. Ehren Jr.

Articles by Maurer Faculty

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The Current Status Of Lawyer Professionals: Some Implications For Legal Education, Andres S. Watson

Law Quadrangle (formerly Law Quad Notes)

Based on the third lecture of Prof. Watson's three-part Issac Ray Awards lectures. "Some Psychological Forces in the Ebb and Flow of Professional Status: Implications for Training and Regulation," delivered at Boalt Hall U of C (Berkleley), Feb. 13-15, 1979.

The Benson Report: A Reactionary View Of Community Law Centres, Bryant G. Garth

Articles by Maurer Faculty

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On Choosing Clients And Careers: A Speculative Essay On The Problems Of Initial Choice, Joseph P. Tomain

Faculty Articles and Other Publications

This paper deals with the moral dimensions of initial choices of careers and clients. Although the foregoing tale is addressed to the initial choice of career, similar considerations enter into the initial choice of clients. The problems of initial career choice were highlighted because they are more immediate to law students.' In addition, one's choice of career may have a significant effect on future choices of clients.

In order for a lawyer to make an initial choice of either career or client, moral questions of the first rank must be answered. The purpose of this paper is to discuss these …

Charles H. Miller Lecture -- Lawyers And Their Public Responsibilities, Thomas Ehrlich

Articles by Maurer Faculty

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The Definition Of Legal Competence: Will The Circle Be Unbroken, David M. White

Santa Clara Law Review

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Lawyers In Colombia: Perspectives On The Organization And Allocation Of Legal Services, Dennis O. Lynch

Articles

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Access To Justice: The Newest Wave In The Worldwide Movement To Make Rights Effective, Bryant G. Garth, Mauro Cappelletti

Articles by Maurer Faculty

The present essay is one of the fruits of a four-year comparative research project entitled "Florence Access-to-Justice Project," sponsored by the Ford Foundation and, with a slightly more local focus, the Italian National Council of Research (CNR). The essay will serve as the General Report introducing the Project's forthcoming four-volume series. The volumes, being published by Sijthoff (Leyden and Boston) and Giuffr6 (Milan) under the general editorship of Mr. Cappelletti are: Volume I. Access to Justice: A World Survey (edited by Messrs. Cappelletti and Garth); Volume II. Access to Justice: Studies of Promising Institutions (edited by Mr. Cappelletti and Mr. …

A Review: Unequal Justice: Lawyers And Social Change In Modern America, Lawrence Mayberry

IUSTITIA

Unequal Justice is a social history of the legal profession from the emergence of The American Bar Association in the 1870's until the 1970's. Auerbach is a professional historian and not a member of the legal profession who writes history, nor is he a sociologist. But before his graduate work in history, the author entered and quickly left law school. The honesty with which he relates the experience and the competent research and analysis manifest in his work demonstrate that he writes this book from a perspective of understanding rather than of bitterness or indifference. In fact Auerbach's unique frame …

The New Anti-Intellectualism In American Legal Education, Francis A. Allen

Law Quadrangle (formerly Law Quad Notes)

Reprinted from Mercer Law Review (1977) with permission of the copyright holder. Copyright 1977 by Walter F.George School of Law. Footnotes omitted.

Legal education in the United States is passing through its winter of discontent. Those who are new to the law schools-students and young instructors-are likely to be unaware of how recently and precipitously the present mood developed. Even those who have known the law schools longer may by now have forgotten the confidence and euphoria that were characteristic attributes of the schools until no more than a decade ago. Legal education, of course, has never lacked criticism, and …

Unequal Justice: Lawyers And Social Change In Modern America, By Jerold S. Auerbach (Book Review), David A. Dittfurth

Faculty Articles

In Unequal Justice, Jerold S. Auerbach attempts to prove that the legal profession has failed to adequately pursue equality of justice. He finds little evidence that the legal profession or its dominant factions have made an adequate effort to assure the provision of legal services according to need. On the contrary, most of the historical evidence presented in this book leads one to believe that the legal profession has accepted profit as its real goal.

The author contends that, because the legal profession is responsible for formulating and applying law in a very legalistic society, it serves a very important …

Future Roles For Lawyers: Reflections On Crossing The Bar, Thomas Ehrlich

Cleveland State Law Review

Sometime ago, the New York Times reported that Erwin Griswold -former Dean of the Harvard Law School, former President of the American Bar Foundation, former Solicitor General of the United States, and one of my own mentors and friends -was asked whether all private lawyers should donate some of their time and talents to serving the poor. "Should carpenters build houses free?" he responded. The question was obviously intended as rhetorical, but in view of Mr. Griswold's stature in the legal profession his analogy deserves serious consideration, and his views deserve a serious response. My comments attempt to provide that …

Future Roles For Lawyers: Reflections On Crossing The Bar, Thomas Ehrlich

Articles by Maurer Faculty

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The End Of Fee Schedules: The Sherman Act Applies To Lawyers Also, Robert Cory Schnepper

University of Miami Law Review

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Black Businesses And Their Lawyers, John T. Baker, Jerome Davis

Articles by Maurer Faculty

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New Directions..., Thomas Ehrlich

Articles by Maurer Faculty

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Some Observations On Promoting And Accommodating The Interests Of The Public, The Bar, And The Law Schools, Theodore J. St. Antoine

Law Quadrangle (formerly Law Quad Notes)

By Dean Theodore J. St. Antoine based on the Dean's Report to the President of the University for the 1973-74 academic year.

By now most Americans, and not least the lawyers, would probably like to forget all about Watergate. But its reverberations pervaded the Law School during the past year, and I think a few further observations are in order.

This seems especially appropriate because a growing number of signs indicate the ultimate meaning of this painful episode may be quite different from the initial perceptions. An affair that many persons thought demeaning to the whole legal profession could yet …

Now That You're In It, What Will You Get Out Of It?: Advice On Law School From Those Who Have Been There And Beyond, Reed Dickerson, Robert W. Meserve, Ronald A. May

Articles by Maurer Faculty

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Kentucky's Future Need For Attorneys, Leslie W. Abramson

Kentucky Law Journal

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Applying The Sherman Act To Restrictive Practices Of The Legal Profession

Maryland Law Review

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Prepaid Legal Service Plans: The Boston Conference And Other Recent Developments, Douglass G. Boshkoff

Articles by Maurer Faculty

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2-1-1: The 4th Revolution In Legal Education, Michael I. Sovern

Faculty Scholarship

If we were to count the great changes in legal education from Charles Evans Hughes' day to this, we would find ourselves with a short list. The shift from apprenticeship to school was already well begun by the time Mr. Hughes was graduated from the Columbia School of Law in 1884. The case method was a new idea, but it would become the orthodox methodology in a startlingly short time. By the turn of the century, a number of law schools had moved from two- to three-year programs, but two years was still enough for admission to the bar in …

Prepaid Legal Service Plans In Indiana, Douglass G. Boshkoff

Articles by Maurer Faculty

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"Headwinds" Minority Placement In The Legal Profession, Harry T. Edwards

Law Quadrangle (formerly Law Quad Notes)

It is an undisputed fact that less than 2 per cent of the nation's estimated 200,000 lawyers are black. To paraphrase the words of one commentator:
"There is no need here to define exactly what constitutes 'shortage' or to dwell upon the question whether the number of black lawyers should be exactly proportionate to black population. The number of black lawyers is so small that there is a shortage by definition, and obviously we are years from facing the more refined question of whether, by definition, such a shortage has ceased to exist.

However, in the decade since 1960, particularly …

Some Thoughts On Training For The Law, Paul D. Carrington

Law Quadrangle (formerly Law Quad Notes)

A substantial part of the 1971 meeting of the Association of American Law Schools was devoted to an examination of Training for the Public Professions of the Law: 1971, a report to the Association by its Curriculum Study Project Committee, chaired by Professor Carrington. Followed are edited excerpts from the report.

Lawyers' Professional Liability Insurance, Donald J. Ladanyi

Cleveland State Law Review

Due to the nature of his profession, the practicing lawyer is invariably confronted with significant financial risks. Because of the growing number of claims for professional negligence, coupled with the fact that the monetary risk of claims is largely unmeasurable, a constantly increasing proportion of lawyers is considering the feasibility of professional liability insurance protection. This type of insurance offers not only financial security, but also a means for the advantageous and efficient settlement of just claims without damaging notoriety.

Minimum Fee Schedules: Guides Or Strait Jackets, Robert L. Simmons, Gary N. Holthus

Cleveland State Law Review

Several states have minimum fee schedules that set the least amount of compensation a lawyer should charge for a specific legal service. There has been much confusion in bar associations across the country as to the application of minimum fee schedules and the consequences of non-compliance. The American Bar Association has published both formal and informal opinions in an attempt to clearly define the functions of the schedules. In view of the opinions, interviews and statistical studies on the subject of minimum fee schedules, it is apparent that they are too rigid to cope with the practical needs of the …

Manners, Morals And Legal Education, Thomas Ehrlich

Articles by Maurer Faculty

Many spokesmen for the legal profession have been calling on the law schools to pay more attention to ethical responsibilities, usually meaning manners and civility. But many of today's law students believe that the profession is not meeting some of its public responsibilities. When that problem is squarely faced, with the law schools' help, then good manners should follow.

Title Guaranty Funds: Symptom, Cure Or Nostrum?, John C. Payne

Indiana Law Journal

This article is an adaption of an address given at a dinner held jointly by the Indiana Bar Title Insurance Corporation and the National Attorneys' Title Assurance Fund, as a part of the annual meeting of the Indiana State Bar Association, October 29, 1970.