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Wishing To Be Part Of That Court: How The Supreme Court's Decision In Bp P.L.C. V. Mayor Of Baltimore Lets Energy Companies Wander Free And Drown The Shore Up Above, Natalie Poirier Oct 2022

Wishing To Be Part Of That Court: How The Supreme Court's Decision In Bp P.L.C. V. Mayor Of Baltimore Lets Energy Companies Wander Free And Drown The Shore Up Above, Natalie Poirier

Villanova Environmental Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Delayed & Denied: Recalibrating The Erisa Attorney's Fee Factors For Healthcare Claims, Katherine T. Vukadin Jun 2022

Delayed & Denied: Recalibrating The Erisa Attorney's Fee Factors For Healthcare Claims, Katherine T. Vukadin

Villanova Law Review

No abstract provided.


Capitalizing On Healthy Lawyers: The Business Case For Law Firms To Promote And Prioritize Lawyer Well-Being, Jarrod F. Reich Sep 2020

Capitalizing On Healthy Lawyers: The Business Case For Law Firms To Promote And Prioritize Lawyer Well-Being, Jarrod F. Reich

Villanova Law Review

No abstract provided.


Beyond Microaggression: Overlapping Identities In Simulated Legal Practice, Peggy Cooper Davis, Danielle Davenport, Brence Pernell Sep 2020

Beyond Microaggression: Overlapping Identities In Simulated Legal Practice, Peggy Cooper Davis, Danielle Davenport, Brence Pernell

Villanova Law Review

No abstract provided.


You Snooze, You Lose, And Your Client Gets A Retrial: United States V. Ragin And Ineffective Assistance Of Counsel In Sleeping Lawyer Cases, Kimberly Sachs Jul 2017

You Snooze, You Lose, And Your Client Gets A Retrial: United States V. Ragin And Ineffective Assistance Of Counsel In Sleeping Lawyer Cases, Kimberly Sachs

Villanova Law Review

No abstract provided.


Bragging Rights Restored: The Third Circuit Allows Attorneys To Quote Complimentary Remarks From Judicial Opinions For Advertising In Dwyer V. Cappell, Nicole Holden Dec 2015

Bragging Rights Restored: The Third Circuit Allows Attorneys To Quote Complimentary Remarks From Judicial Opinions For Advertising In Dwyer V. Cappell, Nicole Holden

Villanova Law Review

No abstract provided.


“Harmonizing Current Threats: Using The Outcry For Legal Education Reforms To Take Another Look At Civil Gideon And What It Means To Be An American Lawyer”, Cathryn A. Miller-Wilson Apr 2013

“Harmonizing Current Threats: Using The Outcry For Legal Education Reforms To Take Another Look At Civil Gideon And What It Means To Be An American Lawyer”, Cathryn A. Miller-Wilson

Working Paper Series

Drawing from the broad and varied literature on legal ethics, the paper demonstrates that legal education and access to justice concerns can and should be addressed simultaneously in our current political and economic climate. Current threats to legal education, and to lawyering in general, present an opportunity for legal education transformation. Applying legal ethics theory to an analysis of these threats provides support for the creation of teaching law firms, similar in size and scope to teaching hospitals, that will employ clinical teaching methodology, substantially enhance ethics teaching and significantly address the issue of access to justice.


Mission: Impossible, Mission: Accomplished Or Mission: Underway? A Survey And Analysis Of Current Trends In Professionalism Education In American Law Schools, Mary Ann Robinson Oct 2012

Mission: Impossible, Mission: Accomplished Or Mission: Underway? A Survey And Analysis Of Current Trends In Professionalism Education In American Law Schools, Mary Ann Robinson

Working Paper Series

This Article identifies common characteristics of effective professionalism instruction to provide guidance in how to design innovative professionalism instruction. After introducing the topic in Part I, Part II of this Article describes the origins and development of the professionalism education movement in American Law schools. Part III of this Article explains our methods for collecting information and identifies and summarizes the predominant trends, and provides examples of noteworthy programs or initiatives. Part IV concludes by describing our method for assessing successful programs and identifying the characteristics of effective professionalism instruction.


Does Legalzoom Have First Amendment Rights? Some Thoughts About Freedom Of Speech And The Unauthorized Practice Of Law, Catherine J. Lanctot Aug 2011

Does Legalzoom Have First Amendment Rights? Some Thoughts About Freedom Of Speech And The Unauthorized Practice Of Law, Catherine J. Lanctot

Working Paper Series

At a time of economic dislocation in the legal profession, it is likely that bar regulators will turn their attention to pursuing lay entities that appear to be engaged in the unauthorized practice of law. One prominent target of these efforts is LegalZoom, an online document preparer that has come under increasing pressure from the organized bar for its marketing and sale of basic legal documents. As regulatory pressure against LegalZoom and similar companies continues to mount, it is worth considering whether there may be unanticipated consequences from pursuing these unauthorized practice claims. In several well-known instances, lay people have …


Reconfiguring Law Reports And The Concept Of Precedent For A Digital Age, Peter W. Martin Jan 2008

Reconfiguring Law Reports And The Concept Of Precedent For A Digital Age, Peter W. Martin

Villanova Law Review

No abstract provided.


Denying The Devil His Due: Contingency Fee Multipliers After City Of Burlington V. Dague, Kyle R. Kravitz Jan 1993

Denying The Devil His Due: Contingency Fee Multipliers After City Of Burlington V. Dague, Kyle R. Kravitz

Villanova Law Review

No abstract provided.


Gentile V. State Bar Of Nevada: Trial In The Court Of Public Opinion And Coping With Model Rule 3.6 - Where Do We Go From Here, Lynn S. Fulstone Jan 1992

Gentile V. State Bar Of Nevada: Trial In The Court Of Public Opinion And Coping With Model Rule 3.6 - Where Do We Go From Here, Lynn S. Fulstone

Villanova Law Review

No abstract provided.


Considering The Costs And Benefits Of Lawyering In Drafting Legislation Or Establishing Precedents, Philip B. Heymann Jan 1991

Considering The Costs And Benefits Of Lawyering In Drafting Legislation Or Establishing Precedents, Philip B. Heymann

Villanova Law Review

No abstract provided.


Rizzo V. Haines: An Attorney's Duty To Exercise Ordinary Skill And Knowledge In The Conduct Of Settlement Negotiations, Martin C. Bryce Jr. Jan 1990

Rizzo V. Haines: An Attorney's Duty To Exercise Ordinary Skill And Knowledge In The Conduct Of Settlement Negotiations, Martin C. Bryce Jr.

Villanova Law Review

No abstract provided.


Mallard V. United States District Court: Attorney May Refuse Federal Judge's Request To Represent Civil Plaintiff Proceeding In Forma Pauperis, Fred Springer Jan 1990

Mallard V. United States District Court: Attorney May Refuse Federal Judge's Request To Represent Civil Plaintiff Proceeding In Forma Pauperis, Fred Springer

Villanova Law Review

No abstract provided.


Confidentiality Under The Pennsylvania Attorney-Client Privilege Statutes And The New Pennsylvania Rules Of Professional Conduct, Leonard Packel Jan 1989

Confidentiality Under The Pennsylvania Attorney-Client Privilege Statutes And The New Pennsylvania Rules Of Professional Conduct, Leonard Packel

Villanova Law Review

No abstract provided.


Lawyers' Lives, Clients' Lives: Can Women Liberate The Profession, Lynn Hecht Schafran Jan 1989

Lawyers' Lives, Clients' Lives: Can Women Liberate The Profession, Lynn Hecht Schafran

Villanova Law Review

No abstract provided.


Responding To Client Perjury Under The New Pennsylvania Rules Of Professional Conduct: The Lawyer's Continuing Dilemma, Doris Del Tosto Brogan Jan 1989

Responding To Client Perjury Under The New Pennsylvania Rules Of Professional Conduct: The Lawyer's Continuing Dilemma, Doris Del Tosto Brogan

Villanova Law Review

No abstract provided.


Antitrust And The Professions: Where Do We Go From Here, Dennis R. Bartholomew Jan 1984

Antitrust And The Professions: Where Do We Go From Here, Dennis R. Bartholomew

Villanova Law Review

No abstract provided.


Symposium Proceedings, Various Editors Jan 1983

Symposium Proceedings, Various Editors

Villanova Law Review

No abstract provided.


Nonprofessional Conflict Resolution, Paul Wahrhaftig Jan 1983

Nonprofessional Conflict Resolution, Paul Wahrhaftig

Villanova Law Review

No abstract provided.


Lawyers And Government Funded Legal Services, Anthony M. Champagne Jan 1976

Lawyers And Government Funded Legal Services, Anthony M. Champagne

Villanova Law Review

No abstract provided.


On Advocacy, Abraham L. Freedman Jan 1956

On Advocacy, Abraham L. Freedman

Villanova Law Review

No abstract provided.