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Faith And Faithfulness: Vocation As Self, Others, And A Third Thing, Joel A. Nichols Jan 2023

Faith And Faithfulness: Vocation As Self, Others, And A Third Thing, Joel A. Nichols

Touro Law Review

Many of us are prone to thinking in binaries—in “either/or” categories, or in black-and-white thinking. Lawyers seem to be especially skilled at this, as we are trained to identify two things and then try to navigate between them or name their similarities and differences. But staying within that framework can be unhelpful, and even stifling, at times. This Essay explores the intersection of faith and the practice of law, especially the idea of vocation. It offers an approach to get out of the binary by suggesting that looking at a third thing is essential. For vocation, this includes (1) listening …


Is The Legal Profession Too Independent?, Limor Zer-Gutman, Eli Wald Jan 2021

Is The Legal Profession Too Independent?, Limor Zer-Gutman, Eli Wald

Marquette Law Review

Faced with mounting pressure to permit national law practice and increase

access to legal services for those who cannot afford to pay for them and

critiques about growing inequality and its failure to lead the battles for greater

gender and racial justice, the legal profession’s response has been to resist

reform proposals by invoking its independence. Lawyers and lawyers alone,

asserts the profession, ought to determine the pace and details of nationalizing

law practice, set the conditions under which nonlawyers and artificial

intelligence can offer legal services, and respond to growing inequality among

lawyers and concerns about the role lawyers …


“Portability Of The Ube: Where Is It When You Need It And Do You Need It At All?”, Suzanne Darrow-Kleinhaus Jan 2021

“Portability Of The Ube: Where Is It When You Need It And Do You Need It At All?”, Suzanne Darrow-Kleinhaus

Touro Law Review

No abstract provided.


Jewish Lawyers And The U.S. Legal Profession: The End Of The Affair?, Eli Wald Jan 2020

Jewish Lawyers And The U.S. Legal Profession: The End Of The Affair?, Eli Wald

Touro Law Review

No abstract provided.


Alternative Business Structures: Good For The Public, Good For The Lawyers, Jayne R. Reardon Oct 2017

Alternative Business Structures: Good For The Public, Good For The Lawyers, Jayne R. Reardon

St. Mary's Journal on Legal Malpractice & Ethics

There has been a shift in consumer behavior over the last several decades. To keep up with the transforming consumer, many professions have changed the way they do business. Yet lawyers continue to deliver services the way they have since the founding of our country. Bar associations and legal ethicists have long debated the idea of allowing lawyers to practice in “alternative business structures,” where lawyers and nonlawyers can co-own and co-manage a business to deliver legal services. This Article argues these types of businesses inhibit lawyers’ ability to provide better legal services to the public and that the legal …


Demonstrating Value To A Corporation As In-House Counsel, Zachary Atherton-Ely Jan 2017

Demonstrating Value To A Corporation As In-House Counsel, Zachary Atherton-Ely

Mitchell Hamline Law Review

No abstract provided.


Case Studies And The Classroom: Enriching The Study Of Law Through Real Client Stories, Michael Millemann Jan 2012

Case Studies And The Classroom: Enriching The Study Of Law Through Real Client Stories, Michael Millemann

University of Maryland Law Journal of Race, Religion, Gender and Class

No abstract provided.


Managing A Law Practice: What You Need To Learn In Law School, Gary A. Munneke Nov 2010

Managing A Law Practice: What You Need To Learn In Law School, Gary A. Munneke

Pace Law Review

No abstract provided.


Misunderstanding Lawyers' Ethics, Monroe H. Freedman, Abbe Smith Apr 2010

Misunderstanding Lawyers' Ethics, Monroe H. Freedman, Abbe Smith

Michigan Law Review

The title of Daniel Markovits's book, A Modern Legal Ethics, gives the impression that it is a comprehensive treatise on contemporary lawyers' ethics. The contents of the book, however, are both more limited and more expansive than the title suggests. Markovits's treatment of lawyers' ethics concerns itself with what he conceives to be the pervasive guilty conscience of practicing lawyers over their "professional viciousness" (p. 36), and how lawyers can achieve a guilt-free professional identity "worthy of ... commitment" (p. 2). Markovits's goal in the book is to "articulat[e] a powerful and distinctively lawyerly virtue" (p. 2), one that …


A Look Backwards: An Open Letter To The Arkansas Bar, Phillip Carroll Oct 2009

A Look Backwards: An Open Letter To The Arkansas Bar, Phillip Carroll

University of Arkansas at Little Rock Law Review

No abstract provided.


On What It Means To Be A Lawyer Of Faith, Leon Holmes Jan 2009

On What It Means To Be A Lawyer Of Faith, Leon Holmes

University of Arkansas at Little Rock Law Review

No abstract provided.


The Practice Of Teaching, The Practice Of Law: What Does It Mean To Practice Responsibly?, Howard Lesnick Sep 2008

The Practice Of Teaching, The Practice Of Law: What Does It Mean To Practice Responsibly?, Howard Lesnick

Pace Law Review

No abstract provided.


Thinking About The Business Of Practicing Law, Michael J. Kelly May 1999

Thinking About The Business Of Practicing Law, Michael J. Kelly

Vanderbilt Law Review

The core of Schiltz's argument with which I most disagree is that large firms are all alike, or, to put it in its more modest, plausible, and compelling form, that big firms and big-firm lawyers are be- coming more alike. The claim of what academics call isomorphism-- in this case, that large-firm practices converge ultimately in similarity-- is his principal descriptive claim. It is also the primary rhetorical device that allows Schiltz to attack large law firms as if they were one, to transpose the caricature of the managing partner in his third marriage to all large law practices. Schiltz's …


Book Review, James R. Elkins May 1977

Book Review, James R. Elkins

Vanderbilt Law Review

Shaffer suggests a new paradigm for law practice that is not based on rigid control of clients in an impersonal attorney-client relationship. He argues forcefully that disregard for the client's emotions ignores important "facts" that can be used in the law office and the legal process. Shaffer's work suggests the possibility of gaining personal satisfaction and of providing more adequate legal services by actively counseling and understanding clients. Such a humanistic approach to the practice of law can be rooted only in an awareness of the psychological and social defenses erected against both the attorney's clients and the attorney's impact …


Book Notes, Law Review Staff Dec 1959

Book Notes, Law Review Staff

Vanderbilt Law Review

Living the Law By Frank E. Cooper Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc., 1958. Pp. xv, 184. $7.50.

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Shared Government in Employment Security By Joseph M. Becker New York: Columbia University Press, 1959. Pp. 501. $6.50.


Book Reviews, Ronan E. Degnan (Reviewer), James J. Lenoir (Reviewer), David H. Vernon (Reviewer), David W. Louisell (Reviewer), David Maxwell (Reviewer) Jun 1958

Book Reviews, Ronan E. Degnan (Reviewer), James J. Lenoir (Reviewer), David H. Vernon (Reviewer), David W. Louisell (Reviewer), David Maxwell (Reviewer)

Vanderbilt Law Review

Book Reviews:

Cases and Materials on Evidence, Fourth Edition. By Morgan, Maguide & Weinstein Brooklyn: Foundation Press, 1957. Pp. xxiv,880. $11.00

reviewers: Ronan E. Degnan and David W. Louisell

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Estate Planning and Taxation Two volumes. By William J. Bowe Buffalo: Dennis & Company, Inc., 1957. Vol. I, pp. lvi, 590; Vol. II,pp. viii, 614.

reviewer: James J. Lenoir

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The Sanctity of Life and the Criminal Law By Glanville Williams. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1957. Pp. xi, 350. $5.00.

reviewer: David H. Vernon

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Current Legal Problems Edited by G. W. Keeton & G. Schwarzenberger London: Stevens & …