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Are Law Firm Partners Islands Unto Themselves? An Empirical Study Of Law Firm Peer Review And Culture, Susan Saab Fortney Dec 1996

Are Law Firm Partners Islands Unto Themselves? An Empirical Study Of Law Firm Peer Review And Culture, Susan Saab Fortney

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This article examines how attitude and law firm culture affect peer review and principal accountability by using empirical data obtained from a survey of Texas law firms. Part I briefly describes the research design and the general profiles of respondents of the survey. Part II discusses the peer review measures used by the firms surveyed for this article. Part III analyzes attitudes about peer review. Part IV focuses on the obstacles to peer review. Part V considers the connection between firm culture and the implementation of peer review measures. Finally, the conclusion explains how firm managers can reshape attitudes to …


Service Is Our Raison D'Etre, Winnie F. Taylor Nov 1996

Service Is Our Raison D'Etre, Winnie F. Taylor

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Lon Fuller, The Model Code, And The Model Rules, John M.A. Dipippa Mar 1996

Lon Fuller, The Model Code, And The Model Rules, John M.A. Dipippa

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Conflicts Of Interests In The Representation Of Children, Nancy J. Moore Mar 1996

Conflicts Of Interests In The Representation Of Children, Nancy J. Moore

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Conflicts of interests arise whenever the representation of a client may be materially limited by the lawyer's duties to either another client or a third person or by the interests of the lawyer herself.' Analyzing such conflicts typically requires identifying situations involving a potentially impermissible conflict, determining whether the conflict is consentable, and, if it is, obtaining consent after full disclosure.2 Conflicts analysis is difficult enough when the client is an adult.3 When the client is a child, however, the analysis is complicated by a number of factors. For example, in the wide variety of cases in which children (or …


Succeeding In Law School: A Comparison Of Woman's Experience At Brooklyn Law School And The University Of Pennsylvania, Marsha Garrison, Brian Tomko, Ivan Yip Jan 1996

Succeeding In Law School: A Comparison Of Woman's Experience At Brooklyn Law School And The University Of Pennsylvania, Marsha Garrison, Brian Tomko, Ivan Yip

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Jewish Lawyer's Question, The Essay, Russell G. Pearce Jan 1996

Jewish Lawyer's Question, The Essay, Russell G. Pearce

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Martin Buber describes the question of how to "affirm" our Jewish identity in the modem world as "the personal Jewish question, the root of all Jewish questions, the question we must discover within ourselves, clarify within ourselves, and decide within ourselves. This essay raises the "Jewish question" for lawyers. First, it explores some reasons why Jewish lawyers answer the question by separating their professional selves from their religious selves. Second, it observes that such an answer is contrary to the perspective-rooted in tradition but also common to the otherwise dissonant streams of Judaism today-that one's Judaism enters every moment of …


You Really Have Come A Long Way: An Analysis And Comparison Of Role Conflict Experienced By Women Attorneys Today And By Educated Women Twenty Years Ago, Jackie Slotkin Jan 1996

You Really Have Come A Long Way: An Analysis And Comparison Of Role Conflict Experienced By Women Attorneys Today And By Educated Women Twenty Years Ago, Jackie Slotkin

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