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Why Is There No Clear Doctrine Of Informed Consent For Lawyers?, Nancy J. Moore
Why Is There No Clear Doctrine Of Informed Consent For Lawyers?, Nancy J. Moore
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Written as a contribution to a symposium issue of the Toledo Law Review honoring retiring professor Susan Martyn, this article takes as its starting point an early article by Professor Martyn entitled “Informed Consent in the Practice of Law.” In that article, Professor Martyn decried the inability of clients to control the course of their representation and urged state legislatures to remedy this situation by enacting legislation creating an action in damages based upon a lawyer’s failure to obtain the client’s informed consent. Such an action would be similar to common law actions that courts had recently recognized by patients …
Is This The Law Library Or An Episode Of The Jetsons?, Ronald E. Wheeler
Is This The Law Library Or An Episode Of The Jetsons?, Ronald E. Wheeler
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In this brief essay penned for the inaugural online edition of the Journal of the Legal Writing Institute, Professor Wheeler discusses his vision for the future of law libraries and the future of legal research, legal research instruction, law teaching, and law related technologies.