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Poke Your Nose Into Your Clients' Businesses (If You Want To Understand Their Contracts), James W. Bowers
Poke Your Nose Into Your Clients' Businesses (If You Want To Understand Their Contracts), James W. Bowers
Maine Law Review
Thirty years ago Grant Gilmore argued that “Contract” was dead. This lecture, delivered as 2004 Godfrey Scholar-in-Residence at the University of Maine School of Law, considers the cause of death. Since the expired doctrines arose in a common law process, the lecture argues their demise resulted from the failings of lawyers, especially lawyers' commitment to wooden, formalist legal methods. I explore some of the reasons why lawyers became committed to these methods, and argue that even were nineteenth-century formalistic practices resurrected, modern lawyers must still be prepared to understand the potential effects business contexts might have in contract disputes and …
Alternative Business Structures: Good For The Public, Good For The Lawyers, Jayne R. Reardon
Alternative Business Structures: Good For The Public, Good For The Lawyers, Jayne R. Reardon
St. Mary's Journal on Legal Malpractice & Ethics
There has been a shift in consumer behavior over the last several decades. To keep up with the transforming consumer, many professions have changed the way they do business. Yet lawyers continue to deliver services the way they have since the founding of our country. Bar associations and legal ethicists have long debated the idea of allowing lawyers to practice in “alternative business structures,” where lawyers and nonlawyers can co-own and co-manage a business to deliver legal services. This Article argues these types of businesses inhibit lawyers’ ability to provide better legal services to the public and that the legal …
Inconsistencies In Combatting The Sex Trafficking Of Minors: Backpage’S Deceptive Business Practices Should Not Be Immune From State Law Claims, Jacqueline Hackler
Inconsistencies In Combatting The Sex Trafficking Of Minors: Backpage’S Deceptive Business Practices Should Not Be Immune From State Law Claims, Jacqueline Hackler
Seattle University Law Review
Under federal law, the CDA has created a loophole for pimps and johns to exploit minors through the Internet. This Note uses Backpage as an example of how interactive computer services consistently evade liability under the current language of the CDA, and examines the need for an amendment to the language of the CDA. This Note argues that an interactive computer service should be held responsible under state law if it helps create the content, thus becoming an “information content provider” under the CDA. Part I provides the groundwork for what sex trafficking is and its relationship to prostitution. Additionally, …
Uber’S Dilemma: How The Ada May End The On-Demand Economy, Bryan Casey
Uber’S Dilemma: How The Ada May End The On-Demand Economy, Bryan Casey
University of Massachusetts Law Review
This article is the first to point out that a few relatively low-profile lawsuits involving Uber’s liability under the ADA could have an outcome-determinative effect on O’Connor v. Uber Technologies, Inc., the blockbuster employment misclassification case brought against the startup by its own drivers. Because both types of lawsuits hinge on the role that drivers play within Uber’s business model, a ruling in favor of ADA liability which compelled Uber to exert additional control over its drivers would also, in turn, jeopardize the drivers’ legal status as independent contractors. Such an outcome would be catastrophic to Uber’s core business model, …
Online Issue: Table Of Contents
Online Issue: Table Of Contents
University of Richmond Law Review
No abstract provided.
Repricing Limited Liability And Separate Entity Status, William H. Clark Jr., D. Alicia Hickok
Repricing Limited Liability And Separate Entity Status, William H. Clark Jr., D. Alicia Hickok
Seattle University Law Review
In this Article we discuss how U.S. entity law has evolved in recent decades so that (i) limited liability has become available to the owners of any form of business organization, and (ii) all forms of business organizations are now seen as having the status of entities separate from their owners. Those changes have occurred without significant consideration of their consequences or what they mean for the public policies underlying entity law. At the same time, there is an increasing awareness by businesses that promotion of social benefits and/or reduction of externalities is in the firm’s best interests. There has …
Assessing The Assessment: B Lab’S Effort To Measure Companies’ Benevolence, Michael B. Dorff
Assessing The Assessment: B Lab’S Effort To Measure Companies’ Benevolence, Michael B. Dorff
Seattle University Law Review
For benefit corporations to persuade their various audiences that they are as beneficial for society as they claim, they need reliable assessments of their social performance. Even if assessments were not required by most states’ benefit corporation statutes, it is difficult to imagine the benefit corporation form could gain credibility without them. Creating measurement tools for these assessments poses the twin challenges of balancing simplicity against validity and weighing vision against inclusiveness. This article examines how B Lab’s popular assessment tool engages these challenges.
Enhancing Cybersecurity In The Private Sector By Means Of Civil Liability Lawsuits - The Connie Francis Effect, Jeffrey F. Addicott
Enhancing Cybersecurity In The Private Sector By Means Of Civil Liability Lawsuits - The Connie Francis Effect, Jeffrey F. Addicott
University of Richmond Law Review
The purpose of this article is to explore the threats posed by
cybersecurity breaches, outline the steps taken by the government
to address those threats in the private sector economy, and
call attention to the ultimate solution, which will most certainly
spur private businesses to create a more secure cyber environment
for the American people-a Connie Francis-styled cyber civil
action lawsuit.
2016-2017 Survey Of Florida Cases Affecting Business Owners, Barbara Landau
2016-2017 Survey Of Florida Cases Affecting Business Owners, Barbara Landau
Nova Law Review
The 2016–2017 Survey of Florida Cases Affecting Business Owners reviews Florida appellate court decisions involving state tax and other business law matters.
Introduction: Exploring The Lawyer As Business Leader, Louis Ainsworth, Joey Balthazor
Introduction: Exploring The Lawyer As Business Leader, Louis Ainsworth, Joey Balthazor
Mitchell Hamline Law Review
No abstract provided.
The Shell Game: An Easy Hide-And-Go-Seek Game For Criminals Around The World, Idelys Martinez
The Shell Game: An Easy Hide-And-Go-Seek Game For Criminals Around The World, Idelys Martinez
St. Thomas Law Review
This Comment explores how the laws of the United States facilitate the formation of anonymous shell corporations, how criminals take advantage of these laws, and how the United States is in dire need of a change. Part I of this Comment discussed the legitimate and illicit uses of shell corporations by weighing the interests of corporate owners and their need for shell corporations and the potential risks that shell corporations pose to the United States. Part II of this Comment outlines the legislative efforts to regulate anonymity and discusses why the current laws and proposed legislation are ineffective. Part III …