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Unpleasant Duties: Imposing Sanctions For Frivolous Appeals, Mark R. Kravitz

The Journal of Appellate Practice and Process

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Appellate Malpractice, Steven Wisotsky

The Journal of Appellate Practice and Process

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Breach Of Contract?: The New Economy, Access To Justice And The Ethical Responsibilities Of The Legal Profession, Richard Devlin

Dalhousie Law Journal

In the last several years, there has been a growing awareness within the legal profession that access to justice, that is, to legal advice and representation, is becoming increasingly difficult. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the cuts to legal aid programmes. The author argues that the response of the legal profession is inadequate because it remains trapped in a welfarist paradigm of legal aid that is insensitive to the impact of the new economy and the newly emergent social investment state. The author explores the possibility of an alternative response - the adoption of a mandatory pro bono …

Public Interest Groups' Litigation Alternatives, Jaclyn S. Wanemaker

Buffalo Public Interest Law Journal

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Risky Business: Attorney Liability In Insurance Defense Litigation-A Review Of The Arizona Supreme Court's Decision In Paradigm Insurance Co. V. Langerman Law Offices

BYU Law Review

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Desegregating The Law School Curriculum: How To Integrate More Of The Skills And Values Identified By The Maccrate Report Into A Doctrinal Course, Alice M. Noble-Allgire

Nevada Law Journal

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Government Officials As Attorneys And Clients: Why Privilege The Privileged?, Melanie B. Leslie

Indiana Law Journal

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A Coming Of Age?: Why Revised Eeoc Guidelines May Force Firms To Protect Against Partner Age Discrimination Suits, David A. Rappaport

Washington and Lee Law Review

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How Secrets Are Kept: Viewing The Current Clergy-Penitent Privilege Through A Comparison With The Attorney-Client Privilege, Shawn P. Bailey

BYU Law Review

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Reconceptualizing Professional Responsibility: Incorporating Equality, Rosemary Cairns Way

Dalhousie Law Journal

Are legal professionals concerned with "doing good" or just with "doing well" financially? In an age of increasing and intensifying public scrutiny there is a need to examine and challenge the legal profession's conception of professional responsibility, and how it translates into practice. This paper expresses the concern that the profession has moved too far in the direction of a "billable hours" culture, a culture that is falling short of the legal profession's obligation as a self-regulated entity to consider and acknowledge the public interest at all points. The author calls for a broader conception of professionalism, one that encompasses …

Special Education Attorneys' Fees After Buckhannon Board & Care Home, Incorporated V. West Virginia Department Of Health And Human Resources, Mark C. Weber

Brigham Young University Education and Law Journal

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The (So-Called) Liability Of Criminal Defense Attorneys: A System In Need Of Reform, Meredith J. Duncan

BYU Law Review

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Return To Sharecropping: Lawyers And Clients As Tenants And Landlords In The Tax Treatment Of Contingency Fees, Dean T. Howell

Washington and Lee Law Review

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Faith In Legal Professionalism: Believers And Heretics, Samuel J. Levine

Maryland Law Review

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Does Information And Agreement Equal Informed Consent?, Carl E. Schneider, Michael H. Farrell

Law Quadrangle (formerly Law Quad Notes)

The following essay is based on a talk delivered last summer in England and on the chapter "Information, Decisions, and the Limits of Informed Consent," in (Michael Freeman and Andrew D. E. Lewis, eds.) Law and Medicine: Current Legal Issues 2000, Volume 3 (Oxford University Press, 2000). This version appears with permission of the publisher.

For many years, a principal labor of bioethics has been to find a way of confiding medical decisions to patients and not to doctors. The foremost mechanism for doing so has been the doctrine of informed consent. Anxious as bioethicists and courts have been to …

The Advocate Vol. 7 #1

The Advocate

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Vol. 6 No. 2

The Advocate

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The Advocate Vol. 7 #2 Fall 2002

The Advocate

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Judicial Reform And The State Of Japan's Attorney System: A Discussion Of Attorney Reform Issues And The Future Of The Judiciary, Part Ii, Kohei Nakabō, Yohei Suda

Washington International Law Journal

Based on the Judicial Reform Council's article, "Points at Issue in Judicial Reform," this paper analyzes basic issues regarding the current status of the Japanese attorney system and areas to be addressed in judicial reform. [This Article formed the basis of Mr. Nakabō's report at the thirteenth meeting of the Judicial Reform Council on February 22, 2000. It was originally published as the second part of a two part paper in SERIES JUDICIAL REFORM I: [LEGAL PROFESSIONAL TRAINING: THE LAW SCHOOL CONCEPT] (2000). The first part of the paper was translated in Kohei Nakabō, Judicial Reform and the State of …

Legal Services Corp. V. Velazquez: A Problematic Commingling Of Unconstitutional Conditions And Public Fora Analyses Yields A New Grey Area For Free Speech, Christopher A. Gozdor

Maryland Law Review

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Attorney Grievance Commission V. Childress: Excessive Focus On Mitigating Factors In Attorney Misconduct Case Fails To Preserve Public Confidence In The Legal Profession, Matthew G. Steinhilber

Maryland Law Review

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Feminist Legal Writing, Kathryn M. Stanchi

San Diego Law Review

Because feminist legal advocates must use legal writing to persuade

their audience and push for change in the law, they must confront the dilemma of whether to follow legal writing conventions and risk altering or losing their feminist message or whether to break from convention and risk losing the legal audience. Feminist legal scholarship, in many different ways, has made great progress in dealing with this dilemma. The focus of this Article, however, is on several pieces of feminist legal scholarship that have confronted the dilemma by pushing the bounds of conventional legal language and legal writing. These pieces, by …

Fit And Functional In Legal Ethics: Developing A Code Of Conduct For International Arbitration, Catherine A. Rogers

Michigan Journal of International Law

In this Article, the author develops a methodology for prescribing the normative content of a code of ethics for international arbitration, and in a forthcoming companion article, integrated mechanisms for making those norms both binding and enforceable are proposed. In making these proposals, the author rejects the classical conception of legal ethics as a purely deontological product derived from first principles. This Article argues, instead, that ethics derive from the inter-relational functional role of advocates in an adjudicatory system, and that ethical regulation must correlate with the structural operations of the system. The fit between ethics and function, the author …

No Black Names On The Letterhead? Efficient Discrimination And The South African Legal Profession, Lisa R. Pruitt

Michigan Journal of International Law

Although there have long been black lawyers in South Africa, during apartheid only a handful joined the ranks of the country's large commercial firms. Now, in the post-apartheid period, these firms are keenly aware of a range of economic and political incentives to hire black attorneys, and most are doing so at a record pace. Very few black attorneys, however, are enduring the path to partnership in these firms. Based on more than seventy-five interviews conducted in South Africa in 1999 and 2000, this Article both documents and critically examines the reasons for black attrition. While firms' incentives to integrate …

How Volunteers Saved Legal Aid In The 1990s, Calien Lewis

Maine Policy Review

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Who Cares? Why Bother?: What Jeff Powell And Mark Tushnet Have To Say To Each Other (A Review Of Christian Perspectives On Legal Thought, Edited By Michael W. Mcconnell, Robert F. Cochran, Jr., And Angela Carmella, William Brewmaker

Oklahoma Law Review

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Volume 69

Tennessee Law Review

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The Hidden Costs Of Lawyer Mobility: Of Law Firms, Law Schools, And The Education Of Lawyers, Robert W. Hillman

Kentucky Law Journal

Randall Park Lecture delivered at the University of Kentucky College of Law, May 7, 2002.