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Rethinking The Law Firm Organizational Form And Capitalization Structure , Edward S. Adams
Rethinking The Law Firm Organizational Form And Capitalization Structure , Edward S. Adams
Missouri Law Review
The goal of this Article is to examine the partnership model and advocate for a change in the Model Rules that would allow for public ownership of law firms, and to make disclosure of firm financials a mandatory requirement for all firms with over 100 lawyers. Part II explores the history and evolution of limited liability and law firm structures in the United States. Part III discusses incorporated law firms and MDPs and how they might benefit U.S. law firms. Part IV looks at the developments in the United Kingdom and Australia and the forces of globalization that have an …
Looking Down The Road Less Traveled: Challenges To Persuading The Legal Profession To Define Problems More Humanistically, Nancy A. Welsh
Looking Down The Road Less Traveled: Challenges To Persuading The Legal Profession To Define Problems More Humanistically, Nancy A. Welsh
Journal of Dispute Resolution
This essay will focus on three factors that may help to explain why it seems to be so difficult for many lawyers to escape the confines of a narrow, legalistic framing of issues-or more poetically, why they may be predisposed against looking down "the road less traveled by." These factors should be taken into account as challenges to the widespread adoption of innovative, more humanistic approaches to lawyering. First, the essay will turn to research regarding the psyches and psychological needs of the people who choose to attend law school and become lawyers. Second, the essay will consider what is …
Evolution Of The New Lawyer: How Lawyers Are Reshaping The Practice Of Law, The, Julie Macfarlane
Evolution Of The New Lawyer: How Lawyers Are Reshaping The Practice Of Law, The, Julie Macfarlane
Journal of Dispute Resolution
In this paper, I shall first briefly examine some of the most significant changes affecting legal practice, especially civil litigation, and ask what adjustments in the professional identity and role of the lawyer these imply or perhaps even require from lawyers. I shall also consider what evidence we have for the evolution of the "new lawyer." I shall then approach these questions from a practice-based perspective, looking specifically at client advocacy, legal negotiation, and the lawyer-client relationship.
Law Office As Indicator And Amplifier Of Professional Status, The, Fred I. Williams
Law Office As Indicator And Amplifier Of Professional Status, The, Fred I. Williams
Journal of Dispute Resolution
The following pages contain a detailed discussion of law office design as an indicator, even amplifier, of professional status and lawyer-client relations. Section II examines the effect that office design can play in defining the lawyer's relationship with clients and other visitors to the office. Section Il discusses the power of office design in properly marking the lawyer's office as a professional domain. Finally, Section IV concludes that office decor is an effective communicator of professional status and can be an effective tool for the lawyer in forming the professional persona.