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Disaster Planning: What We Have (And Haven't) Learned, Gary A. Munneke
Disaster Planning: What We Have (And Haven't) Learned, Gary A. Munneke
Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications
Basic disaster planning is not only cost-effective but relatively easy to integrate with other planning activities. By looking at the experiences of lawyers and law firms that have survived disasters in recent years, it is possible to gain insights that will help us overcome such adversity. Transactional business lawyers, whose clients are frequently the victims of the same forces that harm lawyers, have a special obligation to serve these clients in times of crisis in order to restore these businesses to functionality and commerce to the community at large.
Re-Defining Pro Bono: Professional Commitment To Public Service, Gary A. Munneke
Re-Defining Pro Bono: Professional Commitment To Public Service, Gary A. Munneke
Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications
This article suggests that the current version of Rule 6.1 of the Model Rules of Professional Conduct has not achieved its objective of fostering universal public and pro bono service among lawyers, and proposes a change to the current rule that hopefully will be more successful in achieving these laudable objectives. From the earliest days of the Anglo-American legal profession, lawyers have understood public, or pro bono publico, service to be fundamental to their identity as professionals. During the last half of the 20th century, however, this evolution became a revolution, as pro bono increasingly came to be identified with …
The Most Dangerous Power Of The Prosecutor, Bennett L. Gershman
The Most Dangerous Power Of The Prosecutor, Bennett L. Gershman
Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications
This is the James D. Hopkins Memorial Lecture in honor of Judge Hopkins, who was the Dean of Pace Law School from 1982 to 1983 and earlier served with great distinction on the New York Appellate Division's Second Judicial Department. Judge Hopkins served on that court when I worked in the special prosecutor's office, and as head of the appeals bureau, I argued several cases in Judge Hopkins' court. One case stands out, the case of Salvatore Nigrone v. Murtagh. It was an extensive undercover investigation. My office used informants, wiretaps, and a sham arrest to expose corrupt attempts to …