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Give Them Back Their Lives: Recognizing Client Narrative In Case Theory, Binny Miller
Give Them Back Their Lives: Recognizing Client Narrative In Case Theory, Binny Miller
Michigan Law Review
This article is about case theory and its implications for incorporating client narratives in litigation. In seeking to understand the connections between voice, narrative, and case theory, I look not only to theory but to my experience as a clinical teacher and criminal defense attorney. I explore how the practice of lawyering can be reconstructed to embrace a greater role for clients in constructing case theories, both through the images of the client the lawyer presents in the case theory and through active client participation in developing and choosing the case theory. Although one aim of case theory is to …
Making Elite Lawyers: Visions Of Law At Harvard And Beyond, Daniel A. Cohen
Making Elite Lawyers: Visions Of Law At Harvard And Beyond, Daniel A. Cohen
Michigan Law Review
A Review of Making Elite Lawyers: Visions of Law at Harvard and Beyond by Robert Granfield
Critical Rules In Negotiating Sales Contracts: The Lawyer's Job, James J. White
Critical Rules In Negotiating Sales Contracts: The Lawyer's Job, James J. White
Other Publications
In my experience, lawyers begin negotiating only after the business people have decided upon the description and quality of the product, the time of delivery, and the mode and amount of payment. The lawyers are left with the pathological problems--who gets what in case of trouble. Most of those problems relate to the seller's responsibility if the product does not conform to the contract or otherwise fails to please the buyer. These failures can cause economic loss to the buyer, economic loss to a remote purchaser, or personal injury or property damage to immediate or remote parties. Third parties may …