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Perp Walks And Prosecutorial Ethics, Ernest F. Lidge Iii Sep 2006

Perp Walks And Prosecutorial Ethics, Ernest F. Lidge Iii

Nevada Law Journal

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Standing In Babylon, Looking Toward Zion, Katherine R. Kruse Mar 2006

Standing In Babylon, Looking Toward Zion, Katherine R. Kruse

Nevada Law Journal

No abstract provided.


The Logistical And Ethical Difficulties Of Informing Juveniles About The Collateral Consequences Of Adjudications, Michael Pinard Mar 2006

The Logistical And Ethical Difficulties Of Informing Juveniles About The Collateral Consequences Of Adjudications, Michael Pinard

Nevada Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Recommendations Of The 1995 Fordham Conference On Ethical Issues In The Legal Representation Of Children, Fordham Conference On Ethical Issues In The Legal Representation Of Children Mar 2006

Recommendations Of The 1995 Fordham Conference On Ethical Issues In The Legal Representation Of Children, Fordham Conference On Ethical Issues In The Legal Representation Of Children

Nevada Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Representing Children With Disabilities: Legal And Ethical Considerations, Kim Brooks Tandy, Teresa Heffernan Mar 2006

Representing Children With Disabilities: Legal And Ethical Considerations, Kim Brooks Tandy, Teresa Heffernan

Nevada Law Journal

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Bankruptcy Ethics Issues For Solos And Small Firms, Nancy B. Rapoport Jan 2006

Bankruptcy Ethics Issues For Solos And Small Firms, Nancy B. Rapoport

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This chapter, in Corinne Cooper & Catherine E. Vance's book Attorney Liability in Bankruptcy, walks the reader through some of the traditional ethics issues triggered by representing consumers and small businesses. It also addresses some of the ethics issues that the recent Bankruptcy Amendments (BAPCPA) have created.


Fortress In The Sand: The Plural Values Of Client-Centered Representation, Katherine R. Kruse Jan 2006

Fortress In The Sand: The Plural Values Of Client-Centered Representation, Katherine R. Kruse

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This article examines the history, development and theory of the client-centered approach to lawyering, which has become the most prevalent theory of lawyering taught in law school clinics. It examines the basic tenets of client-centered representation as a problem-solving approach and shows how critique and modification of the approach has spawned a diversity of lawyering models that share the basic tenets of client-centered representation but are in tension with its preferred methodology of lawyer neutrality. The article draws on theories of autonomy to help explain this tension, showing that notions of positive freedom support a range of autonomy-enhancing intervention into …


Standing In Babylon, Looking Toward Zion, Katherine R. Kruse Jan 2006

Standing In Babylon, Looking Toward Zion, Katherine R. Kruse

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This article defends the triumph of vision at the 2006 UNLV Conference on Representing Children in Families by examining the interrelationship between idealism and realism in the definition of lawyers' roles and the importance of idealized visions to the process of reforming dysfunctional systems. This article suggests that the vision of lawyering for children sketched in the UNLV Recommendations--though based in idealism--is both deeply realistic and ultimately practical. This article thus affirms the choice of the group of idealists who stood together for a few days in modern-day Babylon to keep their eyes trained on the vision of Zion as …