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Power From The People, Milner S. Ball
Power From The People, Milner S. Ball
Michigan Law Review
A Review of Rebellious Lawyering: One Chicano's Vision of Progressive Law Practice by Gerald P. López
A Response From The Visitor From Another Planet, J. Cunyon Gordon
A Response From The Visitor From Another Planet, J. Cunyon Gordon
Michigan Law Review
In order to admit, as I do, that the related planets of practice and academia are conjoined, one has to realize, as I have, that the legacy of the heavily doctrinal education Edwards wants to preserve may be precisely the lawyers he upbraids - lawyers who generally do not live, work, and behave ethically (with fairness, compassion, and creativity) in a complex, heterogeneous society. This recognition in turn compels the conclusion I reach that the outsiders - with their challenges to the status quo's values, their upstart theories and innovative pedagogies, and even their Star Trek-and-the-law scholarship - may help …
The Growing Disjunction Between Legal Education And The Legal Profession, Harry T. Edwards
The Growing Disjunction Between Legal Education And The Legal Profession, Harry T. Edwards
Michigan Law Review
This article is my response to Professor Priest and all other legal academicians who disdain law teaching as an endeavor in pursuit of professional education. My view is that if law schools continue to stray from their principal mission of professional scholarship and training, the disjunction between legal education and the legal profession will grow and society will be the worse for it. My arguments are quite straightforward, and probably not wholly original. Nevertheless, they surely merit repetition.
The Servants, Stephan Landsman
The Servants, Stephan Landsman
Michigan Law Review
A Review of Barristers' Clerks, the Law's Middlemen by John Flood
The New Deal Lawyers, Michigan Law Review
The New Deal Lawyers, Michigan Law Review
Michigan Law Review
A Review of The New Deal Lawyers by Peter H. Irons
Investigation Of Unauthorized Practice Of Law By Omnibus Proceeding: The Ohio Method, Jerome M. Smith
Investigation Of Unauthorized Practice Of Law By Omnibus Proceeding: The Ohio Method, Jerome M. Smith
Michigan Law Review
The practice of law is impressed with a public interest. Whether by representation in a judicial proceeding or by advice on a legal problem, the lawyer renders professional service to the public. Preserving client confidences, assuring unquestioned loyalty, and rendering expert counsel are typical obligations of the legal profession. Another responsibility of lawyers is that of protecting the public from legal practice by unqualified laymen. Three areas of activity are involved in preventing unauthorized practice of law. Lawyers and public officials must define the practice of law/ investigate and prosecute unlicensed practitioners, and by judicial remedy prohibit further unauthorized practice. …
Smith: Lawyer, William M. Beaney
Smith: Lawyer, William M. Beaney
Michigan Law Review
A Review of Lawyer. By Talbot Smith.