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Bringing The Practice To The Classroom: An Approach To The Professionalism Problem, Steven H. Goldberg Sep 2000

Bringing The Practice To The Classroom: An Approach To The Professionalism Problem, Steven H. Goldberg

Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications

The first section of this article presents a brief history and description of a professionalism movement that continues to urge law schools to do more to solve the “professionalism problem.” The second discusses legal education's failure to bring professionalism into the law school curriculum. The third describes the structure and teaching method of The Practice—a different kind of course about professionalism—while the fourth discusses the professionalism content of the course. I conclude with a plea for law faculty to direct their considerable talents toward collecting stories and data about the profession and creating material to facilitate law school courses that …


Inter-America Bar Association: Resolutions Of The Xxxv Conference Mar 2000

Inter-America Bar Association: Resolutions Of The Xxxv Conference

University of Miami Inter-American Law Review

No abstract provided.


"Elder-Comp, L.L.C." A Multi-Disciplinary Prototype For Tomorrow's Elder Law Practice, Michael Myers Jan 2000

"Elder-Comp, L.L.C." A Multi-Disciplinary Prototype For Tomorrow's Elder Law Practice, Michael Myers

Michael Myers

No abstract provided.


Modifying Model Rule 5.4 To Allow For Minority Ownership Of Law Firms By Nonlawyers, Bernard S. Sharfman Jan 2000

Modifying Model Rule 5.4 To Allow For Minority Ownership Of Law Firms By Nonlawyers, Bernard S. Sharfman

Bernard S Sharfman

This Note advocates the modification of Model Rule 5.4 to allow for nonlawyer minority ownership of law firms for investment or other purposes.


Abuse Of Confidentiality And Fabricated Controversy: Two Proposals, John A. Humbach Jan 2000

Abuse Of Confidentiality And Fabricated Controversy: Two Proposals, John A. Humbach

Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications

This article is framed as a discussion of two proposals for modifying the Model Rules. One would declare fabricated controversy to be out of bounds as a tactical tool. The other would expressly affirm that it is an abuse of confidentiality for lawyers to engage in strategies of partial-truth advocacy, to assert partial truths while deliberately holding back other information that the lawyer should know is needed in order not to mislead others. Both of these techniques, fabrication of controversy and partial-truth advocacy, tend to undercut the trial as a “search for truth” and both interfere with negotiations as a …


The Complicated Ingredients Of Wisdom And Leadership, Michael A. Fitts Jan 2000

The Complicated Ingredients Of Wisdom And Leadership, Michael A. Fitts

All Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.


Changing Structure In The Practice Of Law, Geoffrey C. Hazard Jr. Jan 2000

Changing Structure In The Practice Of Law, Geoffrey C. Hazard Jr.

All Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.


The Professional Responsibility Of Lawyers, Louise L. Hill Dec 1999

The Professional Responsibility Of Lawyers, Louise L. Hill

Louise L Hill

No abstract provided.