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Legal Ethics and Professional Responsibility
University of Arkansas at Little Rock William H. Bowen School of Law
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Full-Text Articles in Law
Peter Singer, Drowning Children, And Pro Bono, John M.A. Dipippa
Peter Singer, Drowning Children, And Pro Bono, John M.A. Dipippa
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This Article uses the ethicist Peter Singer's principles to examine and critique the legal profession's pro bono efforts in the face of the persistent gap between the public's legal needs and their ability to meet them. Singer argues that adults should jump into a pond to save a drowning child. Using the drowning child as an analogy, this Article argues that lawyers are morally obligated to (1)increase the amount of their pro bono efforts, (2) be more selective in the cases they take, and (3) be significantly more generous in their financial support for legal services providers. These obligations are …
Brady Misconduct Remedies: Prior Jeopardy And Ethical Discipline Of Prosecutors, J. Thomas Sullivan
Brady Misconduct Remedies: Prior Jeopardy And Ethical Discipline Of Prosecutors, J. Thomas Sullivan
Faculty Scholarship
In an Arkansas capital murder prosecution that resulted in conviction and sentences of death based on the killing of a family offour, defense counsel learned after the conviction had been reversed that a key prosecution witness, the defendant's son, who testified against his father, implicating him in the murders at trial, had also given prosecutors a statement in which he claimed responsibility for the crimes and exculpated his father. Defense counsel moved to dismiss the prosecution on the ground of prosecutorial misconduct, then raised a prior jeopardy claim in an effort to bar retrial by taking an interlocutory appeal to …
Defending The Guilty: Lawyer Ethics In The Movies, J. Thomas Sullivan
Defending The Guilty: Lawyer Ethics In The Movies, J. Thomas Sullivan
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No abstract provided.
The Clinician As Ethical Role Model In The Criminal Appellate Litigation Clinic, J. Thomas Sullivan
The Clinician As Ethical Role Model In The Criminal Appellate Litigation Clinic, J. Thomas Sullivan
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No abstract provided.
Unpublished Opinions And No Citation Rules In The Trial Courts, J. Thomas Sullivan
Unpublished Opinions And No Citation Rules In The Trial Courts, J. Thomas Sullivan
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No abstract provided.
The Perils Of Online Legal Research: A Caveat For Diligent Counsel, J. Thomas Sullivan
The Perils Of Online Legal Research: A Caveat For Diligent Counsel, J. Thomas Sullivan
Faculty Scholarship
Online legal research is emerging as a preferred tool for judges, attorneys, and lawstudents, providing a vast amount ofnearly real-time legal resources at the speed of electronic search. This article analyzes the risk of error associated with the immediacy of online opinion publishing and how the uncertainty ofaccuracy potentially compromises the litigator's ability to provide accurate advice.
Ethical And Aggressive Appellate Advocacy: Confronting Adverse Authority, J. Thomas Sullivan
Ethical And Aggressive Appellate Advocacy: Confronting Adverse Authority, J. Thomas Sullivan
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No abstract provided.
Ethical And Aggressive Appellate Advocacy: The "Ethical" Issue Of Issue Selection, J. Thomas Sullivan
Ethical And Aggressive Appellate Advocacy: The "Ethical" Issue Of Issue Selection, J. Thomas Sullivan
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No abstract provided.