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Regulating Electronic Legal Support Across State And National Boundaries, Cassandra Burke Robertson
Regulating Electronic Legal Support Across State And National Boundaries, Cassandra Burke Robertson
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Technology and globalization are changing the practice of law and creating new challenges for lawyer regulation. Middle-class litigants who struggle to afford legal services — but are comfortable using online resources — are increasingly seeking and finding legal support online. State and national boundaries dissolve in the online marketplace, making it easy for attorneys to provide services to litigants in other jurisdictions. Differences in national economies make it cost effective for both clients and lawyers to engage in transnational practice, so that attorneys in India and other jurisdictions can offer legal support and advice to American litigants for as little …
The Case For A Flat-Earth Law School, Erik M. Jensen
The Case For A Flat-Earth Law School, Erik M. Jensen
Faculty Publications
This essay suggests - usually politely - that the American legal academy has been overdoing its push for globalization, and, as a result, education in the basics has suffered. That's a pity because law school graduates need to know the basics to be successful not only in Smalltown USA, but also on a world stage.