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Theories Of Poetry, Theories Of Law, Lawrence Joseph
Theories Of Poetry, Theories Of Law, Lawrence Joseph
Vanderbilt Law Review
I write poetry." Also, since 1976, when I was admitted to practice before a state bar, I have served as a law clerk for a justice of a state supreme court, practiced, and mostly taught law. About the time that I began law school, while I was writing poems that would appear in my first book, an extraordinary change in jurisprudence began to occur, one which focused on legal language as something more than a medium for conveying singular meaning. This legal theory has become as important as any since legal realism. Because I also have written essays and re- …
Where Were The Lawyers? A Behavioral Inquiry Into Lawyers' Responsibility For Clients' Fraud, Donald C. Langevoort
Where Were The Lawyers? A Behavioral Inquiry Into Lawyers' Responsibility For Clients' Fraud, Donald C. Langevoort
Vanderbilt Law Review
Where were the lawyers? Perhaps rhetorical, even sarcastic, this question is being asked all too frequently after large financial frauds. "[W]ith all the professional talent involved," mused Judge Sporkin in a decision growing out of the Lincoln Savings & Loan scandal, "why [didn't] at least one... [blow] the whistle to stop the overreaching that took place in this case[?]" The Lincoln matter alone ensnared a number of the country's most prominent law firms," and many others have been blamed in comparable, if less notorious, banking delicts. Clark Clifford's indictment in the BCCI proceeding has extended the dark shadow even further …