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Lawyering Askew: Excesses In The Pursuit Of Fees And Justice, Kenneth Lasson

All Faculty Scholarship

Lawyer-bashing in America has long been a national pastime, having somehow escaped the palliative of political correctness that has greatly diminished other scurrilous pursuits like Jewish-American-Princess-baiting and Polish-joking.

Much of the profession's negative image can be ascribed to the sheer number of people hanging out their shingles as attorneys at law - just about as many per capita as there are inmates currently serving time in all the state prisons. Lawyers are likewise chastised for the hard-sell hucksterism of their advertising, the exponential growth of their caseloads, and the endless upward spiral of their fee scales. No doubt such perceptions, …

1994 Academy Of Law Alumni Fellows Awards And Law Conference Dinner Invitation

Academy of Law Alumni Fellows

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Logic And The Common Law Trial, Richard H. Underwood

Law Faculty Scholarly Articles

In this article, the author explores some of the inconsistencies between logic and the practice of law. The article draws together numerous anecdotes and examples of situations in which common sense was rejected or ignored in the name of legal procedure. The article focuses on various argument styles employed by lawyers.

Vol. 4, No. 2 (Summer 1994)

IU Law Update

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Magazine's Law School Rankings Misleading, Indiana Deans Say, Mike Magan

Alfred Aman Jr. (1991-2002)

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Indiana Lawyer's Who's Who (Crossword Puzzle), Michael S. Maurer

Alfred Aman Jr. (1991-2002)

A crossword puzzle created by Michael S. Maurer with questions related to prominent legal professionals in Indiana, including Dean Aman.

Vol. 4, No. 1 (Spring 1994)

IU Law Update

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Spring 1994

Bill of Particulars

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Welcome To The Iu School Of Law, Alfred C. Aman Jr.

Alfred Aman Jr. (1991-2002)

On Monday, Aug. 23, 1993, the dean addressed the entering class. We share that message here with all of our alumni.

Pathologizing Professional Life: Psycho-Literary Case Stories, James R. Elkins

Law Faculty Scholarship

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The Case Of A Lifetime, Richard C. Reuben

Faculty Publications

There is great difficulty in defining pro bono lawyering. The classic model is the practitioner who devotes time to representing a client in a civil or criminal matter. But some consider other legal relationships pro bono as well, such as service on the boards of directors of nonprofit organizations, legal work at reduced fees, and activities that improve the law and legal profession. In the case of organizations such as the ACLU and the NAACP LDF, pro bono means a mixture of much of the above, as public interest law firms work hand in hand with private lawyers and firms …

Welcome To The Iu School Of Law, Alfred C. Aman

Articles by Maurer Faculty

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Law Is Still A Noble Profession, Alfred C. Aman Jr.

Alfred Aman Jr. (1991-2002)

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Lawyers, Mediation, And The Management Of Divorce Practice, Craig A. Mcewen, Lynn Mather, Richard J. Maiman

Journal Articles

Despite a widespread assumption that divorce mediation and divorce lawyers are incompatible, lawyers do play active-if largely unexamined-roles in many mediation programs. This article reports on the work of lawyers in a state with mandatory mediation. We find that lawyers in Maine have generally embraced mediation because it helps them manage problems inherent in divorce practice. Mandated divorce mediation facilitates both settlement negotiation and trial preparation, permits client participation in decisionmaking without requiring lawyers to surrender control, provides a forum for resolving both legal and nonlegal issues, and promotes efficient case management.

Remarks: St John's Law Review Alumni Dinner, Roger J. Miner '56

Law Review Addresses

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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 …

Class Of 1994 Five Year Report Alumni Comments, University Of Michigan Law School

UMLS Alumni Survey Class Reports

This addendum is a compilation of alumni responses to the open-ended comments sections.

Class Of 1994 Five Year Report, University Of Michigan Law School

UMLS Alumni Survey Class Reports

This report summarizes the findings of a questionnaire sent to University of Michigan Law School alumni five years after graduation.

Testing The Radical Experiment: A Study Of Lawyer Response To Clients Who Intend To Harm Others, Leslie Levin

Faculty Articles and Papers

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Emperor's Clothes And Other Tales About The Standards For Imposing Lawyer Discipline Sanctions, The, Leslie Levin

Faculty Articles and Papers

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Practicing Community (Book Review), Anthony V. Alfieri

Articles

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Values, Pierre Schlag

Publications

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Representing In-Between: Law, Anthropology, And The Rhetoric Of Interdisciplinarity, Annelise Riles

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

This article considers how lawyers and nonlawyers discuss the contribution of interdisciplinary scholarship to the law as a means of rethinking the relationship between these differences. The article first examines the arguments of the nineteenth-century lawyer Henry Maine and of the twentieth-century anthropologist Edmund Leach on the subject, and notes the difference between Maine's emphasis on "movement" from one theoretical discovery to another and Leach's emphasis on creating relationships between disciplines by exploiting a "space in between" the two. Then, turning to contemporary scholarship in legal anthropology, "Law and Society," and the sociology of law, the article critiques the rigid …

Delivery Of Legal Services To Ordinary Americans, Roger C. Cramton

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

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Critical Thoughts About Race, Exclusion, Oppression And Tenure, Deborah W. Post

Scholarly Works

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A Dissenter's Commentary On The Professionalism Crusade, Rob Atkinson

Scholarly Publications

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Growing Up Good In Maycomb, Thomas L. Shaffer

Journal Articles

"I am the sum total of those who preceded me," Elie Wiesel wrote recently, "and so are you. Am I responsible for what all of them have done before I came into this world? No. But I am responsible for what I am doing with the memory of what they have done."

Jean Louise Finch (Scout), her brother Jeremy, their summer friend Dill, who comes to them from Meridian, Mississippi, and their school friends from the town and the farms around Maycomb grew up in memory and learned, or failed to learn, and accepted, or refused to accept, responsibility for …

Practicing Poetry, Teaching Law, David A. Skeel Jr.

All Faculty Scholarship

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Gross Profits? Questions About Lawyer Billing Practices, Lisa G. Lerman

Scholarly Articles

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Mapping Legal Theory, Richard F. Devlin Frsc

Articles, Book Chapters, & Popular Press

In this essay, the author briefly outlines recent trends in Canadian jurisprudence. Beginning with a brief overview of the classical jurisprudential debate between natural lawyers, legal positivists, and legal realists, the author then provides an introduction to a new theoretical tradition which he terms "Artifactualism", as well as a survey of contemporary ''Artifactualist Jurisprudence". He argues that there has been a significant theoretical shift away from the classical conceptualization of law as morality (as embodied in natural law, and challenged by legal posltlvism and legal realism), toward the conceptualization of law as politics (as promulgated by artifactualism). This new conceptualization …