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A Model Act For The Certification Of Paralegals And The Accreditation Of Paralegal Training Programs, Raymond B. Marcin

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Over the past decade or so, lawyers have become accustomed to socio-legal "explosions": the explosion into the law scene of legal services corporations; the explosion in malpractice insurance rates as the result of the explosion in medical malpractice suits and favorable jury verdicts; the explosion in no-fault law, both in negligence and family disputes; and the legal profession's own population explosion.

Therefore, it should come as no great shock that over the past decade there has been one additional socio-legal explosion: the explosion in the use of paralegals by lawyers, law firms, corporations, and government agencies of all descriptions. Although …

Punctuation And The Interpretation Of Statutes, Raymond B. Marcin

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On the morning of August 3, 1916, at Pentonville Prison in England, Roger David Casement, former Knight of the Realm, was hanged. Sir Roger's last thoughts on that ultimate morning may well have centered on the incredible series of misadventures and blunders that led to his arrest some four months earlier, but his lawyer's thoughts almost certainly centered on punctuation. It was indeed an improbable set of mishaps that led to Sir Roger's arrest, but it was punctuation that eventually and inexorably did him in.

Child, Parent, State And The Due Process Clause: An Essay On The Supreme Court’S Recent Work, John H. Garvey

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This Article will suggest that the right of autonomy, which limits state control over children, should be considered to reside not in the child alone, but in the family, just as the right against state interference with the family structure resides in the family. The shift in focus from children's rights to family rights implicitly accounts for the mental, physical, and emotional differences between children and adults. Moreover, protecting a family's right of autonomy insures that decisions on behalf of the child will be made by those presumptively best able to make such decisions, the parents.

Antitrust Law – Standing To Sue – Prices – Consumers Are Precluded From Showing “Injury” Within The Meaning Of Section 4 Of The Clayton Act By Establishing That They Paid Higher Prices For Goods Because Of Illegal Price-Fixing Of A Manufacturer With Whom They Did Not Deal Directly – Illinois Brick Co. V. Illinois, 431 U.S. 720 (1977), Catherine F. Klein

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The Concept Of Free Seas: Shaping Modern Maritime Policy Within A Vector Of Historical Influence, George P. Smith Ii

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Guide To The New D.C. Marriage And Divorce Law, Harvey L. Zuckman

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Throw ‘Em To The Lions (Or Bengals): The Decline And Fall Of Sports Civilization, Harvey L. Zuckman

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There is an all too pervasive view abroad in the land that team sports are sacrosanct and are not and should not be subject to the normal processes of the civil law. The basic argument is that only the internal administrators have the expertise to determine the acceptability or reasonableness of particular contact between players and the scope of the players' consent to contact and the risks that they assume. A more emotional argument but one that must not be underestimated is that team sports are so much a part of American life that they should enjoy a special status …

A Note To Decameron 6.7: The Wit Of Madonna Filippa, Kenneth Pennington

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Cum Causam Que: A Decretal Of Innocent Iii, Kenneth Pennington

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