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I Limiti Alla Pubblicità Dell'avvocato Nell'ordinamento Tedesco, Valerio Sangiovanni

Valerio Sangiovanni

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It's Not Funny: Creating A Professional Culture Of Pro Bono Commitment, Douglas L. Colbert

Douglas L. Colbert

Professor Colbert challenges the popular view that regards lawyers as selfish, greedy and uncaring to the legal needs of the outside community. In his article, he recognizes that the lawyers with whom he is familiar are fulfilling the lawyer’s ethical obligation of engaging in pro bono service and “provid[ing] legal services to those unable to pay,” while also embracing the language in the Preamble to the Model Rules of Professional Conduct that refers to the attorney “as a public citizen who has a special responsibility to the quality of justice.” Professor Colbert asks colleagues in the legal academy whether they …

Lawyers' Ideal Psychological Type Preferences, Marko Novak

Marko Novak

By indicating typical characteristics of certain areas of law, it seems that we are able to indicate some ideal preferences that persons that are engaged in such have or should have. Moreover, when some specific characteristics are emphasized as typical, and if as such they have been proved historically as important for the well-functioning of a legal field, then such can be called preferred or even ideal. Thus, in this article, I am trying to indicate those preferences in lawyer’s psychological types that make them good lawyers generally, and also specifically regarding their special area of interest within law.

The Role Of Lawyers In Trans Liberation: Building A Transformative Movement For Social Change, Gabriel Arkles, Pooja Gehi, Elana Redfield

Gabriel Arkles

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Teaching Professional Ethics To Lawyers And Mediators Using Active Learning Techniques, Paula M. Young

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Foreword: The New Era- Quo Vadis?, John Sahl

John Sahl

The Inaugural MBI Symposium’s twenty-six participants highlight many important developments and challenges caused by MJP and new technologies. Their assessments and suggestions provide a helpful roadmap for lawyers and regulators to negotiate the increasingly complex, fast-paced, and ethically risky landscape for delivering legal services. Several panelists suggested regulatory reforms that range from the creation of a regulatory framework for lawyers engaged in crossborder practice to the creation of standards for the supervision of offshore outsourced legal services268 and the mining of metadata. Some of the panelists’ suggestions and reforms are especially important given the “high [financial] stakes” involved in the …