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Doctors And Lawyers And Wolves, George J. Annas
Doctors And Lawyers And Wolves, George J. Annas
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Relations between lawyers and physicians, and therefore between law and medicine, are getting more and more destructive and counterproductive. It used to be a joke, but it's not funny anymore. We can't afford the continuing and escalating acrimony between our professions and it's time that we take constructive steps in the public interest to deal with it.
Practical Suggestions For Practicing Lawyers, Anita Bernstein
Practical Suggestions For Practicing Lawyers, Anita Bernstein
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Autopsy Of A Murder: Using Simulation To Teach First Year Criminal Law, Stacy Caplow
Autopsy Of A Murder: Using Simulation To Teach First Year Criminal Law, Stacy Caplow
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After Professional Virtue, Geoffrey C. Hazard Jr.
After Professional Virtue, Geoffrey C. Hazard Jr.
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Teaching Mediation As A Lawyering Role Developments, Jacqueline Nolan-Haley
Teaching Mediation As A Lawyering Role Developments, Jacqueline Nolan-Haley
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The growth of the alternative dispute resolution (ADR) movement has generated an increased interest in the study and practice of mediation as a nonadversarial method of conflict resolution. With mediation, individuals settle their disputes using a neutral third party who has no power to impose a settlement. Historically, mediation has been widely neglected in legal education, and-except for those involved in the labor field-lawyers have not practiced it. Recent gains in visibility have not necessarily resulted in widespread acceptance of mediation. In fact, mediation has even been openly resisted by some members of the legal profession.
Warrior Bards, Kevin Mccarthy, Michael E. Tigar
Warrior Bards, Kevin Mccarthy, Michael E. Tigar
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Coming Of Age In A Corporate Law Firm: The Economics Of Associate Career Patterns, Ronald J. Gilson, Robert H. Mnookin
Coming Of Age In A Corporate Law Firm: The Economics Of Associate Career Patterns, Ronald J. Gilson, Robert H. Mnookin
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The traditional American corporate law firm, long an oasis of organizational stability, in recent years has been the subject of dramatic change. The manner in which firms divide profits, perhaps the most revealing aspect of law firm organization because it displays the balance the firm has selected between risk-sharing and incentives, has changed in a critical way. From a long standing reliance on seniority that emphasizes risk-sharing, profit division is shifting to a system based on the productivity of individual partners that emphasizes incentives. With what seems to be only a short time lag from the change in how profits …