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Trending @ Rwu Law: Deborah Johnson's Post: Diversity And "Defamation", Deborah Johnson
Trending @ Rwu Law: Deborah Johnson's Post: Diversity And "Defamation", Deborah Johnson
Law School Blogs
No abstract provided.
Why U.S. Jurisdictions Should Adopt ‘Regulatory Objectives’ For The Legal Profession, Laurel S. Terry
Why U.S. Jurisdictions Should Adopt ‘Regulatory Objectives’ For The Legal Profession, Laurel S. Terry
Laurel S. Terry
As a Lichtenstein Distinguished Lecturer, Professor Terry was asked to write an article for the Hofstra Law Review. Her article, cited below, may be downloaded from the link at the top of the page. Laurel S. Terry, Globalization and the ABA Commission on Ethics 20/20: Reflections on Missed Opportunities and the Road Not Taken, 43 Hofstra L. Rev. 95 (2014) The ABA Commission on Ethics 20/20 was established in order to “perform a thorough review of the ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct and the U.S. system of lawyer regulation in the context of advances in technology and global legal …
Transnational Legal Practice Developments, Carole Silver, Robert E. Lutz, Philip T. Von Mehren, Laurel S. Terry, Peter Ehrenhaft, Clifford J. Hendel, Jonathan Goldsmith, Masahiro Shimojo
Transnational Legal Practice Developments, Carole Silver, Robert E. Lutz, Philip T. Von Mehren, Laurel S. Terry, Peter Ehrenhaft, Clifford J. Hendel, Jonathan Goldsmith, Masahiro Shimojo
Laurel S. Terry
No abstract provided.
Transnational Legal Practice: Cross-Border Legal Services: 2002 Year-In-Review, Carole Silver, Robert E. Lutz, Philip T. Von Mehren, Laurel S. Terry, Peter Ehrenhaft
Transnational Legal Practice: Cross-Border Legal Services: 2002 Year-In-Review, Carole Silver, Robert E. Lutz, Philip T. Von Mehren, Laurel S. Terry, Peter Ehrenhaft
Laurel S. Terry
No abstract provided.
Putting The Legal Profession’S Monopoly On The Practice Of Law In A Global Context, Laurel S. Terry
Putting The Legal Profession’S Monopoly On The Practice Of Law In A Global Context, Laurel S. Terry
Laurel S. Terry
When considering the proper scope of the U.S. legal profession’s monopoly, regulators and commentators may find it useful to compare the scope of the U.S. monopoly with the legal profession monopolies found in other countries. This Article surveys what we know—and do not know—about the scope of the monopoly in countries other than the United States. The Article finds that the state of knowledge on this topic is relatively undeveloped, that the scope of the U.S. legal profession’s monopoly appears to be larger than the scope of the monopoly found in some other countries, but that the “conventional wisdom” may …
Newsroom: Judge Clifton On Fairness, Equality, Rwu Law, Roger Williams University School Of Law
Newsroom: Judge Clifton On Fairness, Equality, Rwu Law, Roger Williams University School Of Law
Life of the Law School (1993- )
No abstract provided.
The First Women Lawyers: "Piecemeal Progress And Circumscribed Success", Mary Jane Mossman
The First Women Lawyers: "Piecemeal Progress And Circumscribed Success", Mary Jane Mossman
Mary Jane Mossman
This paper explores the context in which women gained admission to the bar at the end of the nineteenth century, discusses the stories of some of the first women lawyers in different parts of the world, and reflects on their challenges and choices as members of the legal professions.
Igniting The Conversation: Embracing Legal Literacy As The Heart Of The Profession, Laura J. Ax-Fultz
Igniting The Conversation: Embracing Legal Literacy As The Heart Of The Profession, Laura J. Ax-Fultz
Faculty Scholarly Works
Law librarians are experts in instruction, databases, scholarship, and more. This broad expertise has exacerbated an identity crisis in the profession. The author argues that law librarians must develop a core identity, such as legal literacy, to navigate an ever-changing legal landscape that questions the future necessity of law librarians.
Indigenous Lawyers In Canada: Identity, Professionalization, Law, Sonia Lawrence, Signa Daum Shanks
Indigenous Lawyers In Canada: Identity, Professionalization, Law, Sonia Lawrence, Signa Daum Shanks
Dalhousie Law Journal
For Indigenous communities and individuals in Canada, "Canadian" law has been a mechanism of assimilation, colonial governance and dispossession, a basis for the assertion of rights, and a method of resistance. How do Indigenous lawyers in Canada make sense of these contradictory threads and their roles and responsibilities? This paper urges attention to the lives and experiences of Indigenous lawyers, noting that the number of self-identified Indigenous lawyers has been rapidly growing since the 1990s. At the same time, Indigenous scholars are focusing on the work of revitalizing Indigenous law and legal orders. Under these conditions, Indigenous lawyers occupy a …
The Moral Lawyer And The Machiavellian Nature Of Law Practice, David Barnhizer
The Moral Lawyer And The Machiavellian Nature Of Law Practice, David Barnhizer
David Barnhizer
In Western culture the name Niccolo Machiavelli has become Machiavellianism, a pejorative signifying the willingness to do anything to achieve desired ends. American lawyers do have limits, however, and are expected to operate according to an ethical code that is at least intended to prevent the worst abuses. The effectiveness of this ethical code has often been questioned, as have the questionable efforts of the organized bar to enforce its rules, but on the surface it differentiates law practice from hand-to-hand combat and military struggles. Even though I have sometimes used the concepts of the warrior lawyer, the general and …
The Call For Lawyers Committed To Social Justice To Champion Accessible Legal Services Through Innovative Legal Education, George Critchlow, Brooks Holland, Olympia Duhart
The Call For Lawyers Committed To Social Justice To Champion Accessible Legal Services Through Innovative Legal Education, George Critchlow, Brooks Holland, Olympia Duhart
Nevada Law Journal
No abstract provided.
Tilting At Stratification: Against A Divide In Legal Education, Rebecca Roiphe
Tilting At Stratification: Against A Divide In Legal Education, Rebecca Roiphe
Nevada Law Journal
No abstract provided.
Glass Half Full: The Decline And Rebirth Of The Legal Profession (Book Review), Michael S. Ariens
Glass Half Full: The Decline And Rebirth Of The Legal Profession (Book Review), Michael S. Ariens
Faculty Articles
No abstract provided.
A Tale Of Three “Professions”: Search Engine Optimization, Lawyering & Law Teaching, Ray Campbell
A Tale Of Three “Professions”: Search Engine Optimization, Lawyering & Law Teaching, Ray Campbell
Ray W Campbell
The question has been posed: is legal practice today a profession? This leads, naturally enough, to another question: should society treat it as one? Using the concept of ‘profession’ in different ways, some argue that one thing modern legal practice needs is a good dose of 'professionalism;' others argue that, whatever once might have been true, treating law practice as a ‘profession’ is a rum game best abandoned.
These questions matter. Law enjoys special regulatory privileges and market protections that make little sense if law has become just another form of business – a specialized form of consulting, perhaps. At …
Newsroom: Judge Edward Clifton Joins Faculty, Roger Williams University School Of Law
Newsroom: Judge Edward Clifton Joins Faculty, Roger Williams University School Of Law
Life of the Law School (1993- )
No abstract provided.
The Legal Profession: A Time For Self-Anaylsis, Ralph M. Nader
The Legal Profession: A Time For Self-Anaylsis, Ralph M. Nader
Akron Law Review
Law Day is always a good occasion to look over the role of the profession. Traditionally in many gatherings around the country, the profession has used Law Day to praise itself. This is an occupational trait of the legal profession which is not restricted to Bar Association banquets. I was asked to speak to a number of New York lawyers recently at one such event in New York. As I sat awaiting my turn, the lawyers first praised themselves and after they finished, they began praising judges and gave them awards, scrolls, and plaques. Finally I got up and I …
The View From My Corner Of The World: A Personal Comment On The Process Of Becoming A Lawyer, Linda B. Klein
The View From My Corner Of The World: A Personal Comment On The Process Of Becoming A Lawyer, Linda B. Klein
Akron Law Review
This comment critiques several aspects of legal education that collectively devolve into what I perceive generally to be a self-perpetuating, institutional dysfunction: a traditional pedagogy, a stifling epistemology,'' and a myopic standardization.
It is my contention that, overall, legal education as presently constituted tends greatly to impede, rather than encourage, students' spiritual and emotional growth as individuals. In both its form and content, this comment confronts directly the conventionalism of law school. Instead of writing one more Law Review article that lacks originality, is boring, humorless, and too long, and has too many footnotes, I am seeking to demonstrate herein …
Law Firm Ownership Of Ancillary Businesses In Ohio - A New Era?, Stephen R. Ripps
Law Firm Ownership Of Ancillary Businesses In Ohio - A New Era?, Stephen R. Ripps
Akron Law Review
The seeds of controversy about ancillary businesses were planted in 1983 when the American Bar Association's House of Delegates approved Model Rule 5.4 prohibiting non-lawyer participation in law firm businesses. Ohio has adopted the ABA Code of Professional Responsibility, not the Model Rules, but the Model Rules may nevertheless have an impact on the interpretation and development of ethical guidelines in Ohio and other Code states. In order to determine the status of ancillary businesses in Ohio today, analysis must proceed in this dual context.
Taking Empirical Research Seriously, Susan Saab Fortney
Taking Empirical Research Seriously, Susan Saab Fortney
Susan S. Fortney
This essay considers how empirical research on the legal profession can bridge the divide between theory, social science, and the ethical practice of law. After providing background information on the growing field of empirical legal research, Part I of this essay focuses on developments in empirical legal research on lawyering. Part II discusses how collaboration with practitioners and other stakeholders can help researchers address challenges related to accessing data. Once data are obtained, Part III suggests how dissemination and sharing of research can link the academy and practicing lawyers. The conclusion urges a collaborative course of action for legal ethics …
Tales Of Two Regimes For Regulating Limited Liability Law Firms In The Us And Australia: Client Protection And Risk Management Lessons, Susan Saab Fortney
Tales Of Two Regimes For Regulating Limited Liability Law Firms In The Us And Australia: Client Protection And Risk Management Lessons, Susan Saab Fortney
Susan S. Fortney
This essay contrasts the regimes that allow limited liability partnerships in the US and fully incorporated legal practices in Australia. The essay argues that Australia has taken advantage of an opportunity to develop innovative and necessary regulation of law firm ethical infrastructure with the introduction of incorporated legal practices, but the United States has not yet adequately addressed the consumer and ethical risks of limited liability partnerships. This essay raises the issue of whether Australia’s requirement that incorporated law firms should implement “appropriate management systems” to ensure ethical conduct is a model that could fruitfully be applied to all law …
Newsroom: Lawyers Under The Nazis, Roger Williams University School Of Law
Newsroom: Lawyers Under The Nazis, Roger Williams University School Of Law
Life of the Law School (1993- )
Available @ http://law.rwu.edu/story/lawyers-under-nazis
Franz Kafka’S “Before The Law”: A Parable, Geoffrey L. Brackett
Franz Kafka’S “Before The Law”: A Parable, Geoffrey L. Brackett
Pace Law Review
Despite Francis Bacon’s cautionary note, I have always been a fan of parables, and perhaps the most poignant one to speak for perils of the legal profession is Franz Kafka’s “Vor dem Gesetz” (“Before the Law”), one of the relatively few works to be published in his lifetime. It was seen first in the almanac Vom Jüngsten Tag: Ein Almanach Neuer Dichtung in December 1915 before it was included in his novel Der Prozess (The Trial), which was unpublished in his lifetime. He wrote it at one sitting on December 13, 1914, and in fewer than 650 words, Kafka illustrates …
Michael Brown, Eric Garner, And Law Librarianship, Ronald E. Wheeler
Michael Brown, Eric Garner, And Law Librarianship, Ronald E. Wheeler
Faculty Scholarship
Professor Wheeler discusses the police killings of Michael Brown and Eric Garner. He posits that racialized fear is part of what fuels such violence and discusses examples of how racialized fear have impacted his personal life. Wheeler then discusses how and why law librarians can and should be prepared to discuss such events with their law library patrons.
University Of Akron School Of Law Commencement Address, Michael S. Greco
University Of Akron School Of Law Commencement Address, Michael S. Greco
Akron Law Review
University of Akron School of Law Commencement Address...I want to talk with you today about the place of the lawyer in society – your place in society. About the challenges that now confront lawyers and our profession. And about how we must respond to those challenges. I begin with the importance of an independent legal profession in America.
Tomorrow, And Tomorrow, And Tomorrow: Ethics 20/20 Amidst A Changing Profession, Thomas Ross
Tomorrow, And Tomorrow, And Tomorrow: Ethics 20/20 Amidst A Changing Profession, Thomas Ross
Akron Law Review
In Part II of this paper, I will sketch briefly my sense of some of the important ways in which the practice of law seems to be evolving. Part III will revisit the work of the Ethics 20/20 Commission and suggest that the posture of the Commission and of the ABA elite in this initiative has been essentially one of accommodation and facilitation, rather than an oppositional stance. I will briefly note a historical instance of the organized bar taking such an oppositional stance and offer some hypotheses about why the organized bar has chosen these two different postures in …
The Statute, The Constitution, The Caselaw, And The Appellate Lawyer As Sleuth, Leslie Hyman
The Statute, The Constitution, The Caselaw, And The Appellate Lawyer As Sleuth, Leslie Hyman
The Journal of Appellate Practice and Process
No abstract provided.
The Legal Tech Audit: Focus On Pdfs, Rachel S. Evans, Jason Tubinis
The Legal Tech Audit: Focus On Pdfs, Rachel S. Evans, Jason Tubinis
Presentations
In addition to discussing the legal tech audit, these sessions focused on how-to skills for using Adobe Acrobat in the legal profession.
The Legal Tech Audit: Focus On Word, Rachel S. Evans, Jason Tubinis
The Legal Tech Audit: Focus On Word, Rachel S. Evans, Jason Tubinis
Presentations
In addition to discussing the legal tech audit, these sessions focused on how-to skills for using Microsoft Word in the legal profession.
The Legal Tech Audit: Focus On Excel, Rachel S. Evans, Jason Tubinis
The Legal Tech Audit: Focus On Excel, Rachel S. Evans, Jason Tubinis
Presentations
In addition to discussing the legal tech audit, these two sessions focused on how-to skills for using Microsoft Excel in the legal profession.
We All Do It: Unconscious Behavior, Bias, And Diversity, Ronald E. Wheeler
We All Do It: Unconscious Behavior, Bias, And Diversity, Ronald E. Wheeler
Faculty Scholarship
Mr. Wheeler suggests that many of our behaviors, in the workplace and elsewhere, are motivated by unconscious triggers and emotions, including racial biases. These behaviors, however, can be prevented by making conscious choices that enhance diversity.