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Judge Hits Quality Of Appellate Advocacy (New York Law Journal), Bill Alden

News Articles

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Unreasonable Risk: Model Rule 1.6, Environmental Hazards, And Positive Law, Irma S. Russell

Faculty Works

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Professional Responsibility In Appellate Practice: A View From The Bench, Roger J. Miner '56

Law Practice

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Ethics On The Web: An Annotated Bibliography Of Legal Ethics Material On The Internet, 28 Stetson L. Rev. 369 (1998), Darby Dickerson

UIC Law Open Access Faculty Scholarship

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Deposition Dilemmas: Vexatious Scheduling And Errata Sheets, 12 Geo. J. Legal Ethics 1 (1998), Darby Dickerson

UIC Law Open Access Faculty Scholarship

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Law Firms, Technology, And The Double-Billing Dilemma, 12 Geo. J. Legal Ethics 95 (1998), Kevin Hopkins

UIC Law Open Access Faculty Scholarship

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Mpre Reconsidered, The, Leslie Levin

Faculty Articles and Papers

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Signed, Sealed, Delivered ... Disbarred - Notarial Misconduct By Attorneys, 31 J. Marshall L. Rev. 1085 (1998), Christopher B. Young

UIC Law Review

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Independent, Professional Judgment: The Essence Of Freedom, Bennett H. Brummer

St. Thomas Law Review

This Article will address the concept of professionalism from a criminal defense attorney's perspective and, more specifically, from the perspective of a public defender. The public defender mission is based on our ideals of freedom and equal justice under law. I have spent twenty-five years as a participant in, and observer of, our judicial system. Whether in government or professional circles, public defenders are often outsiders. We are often treated as the illegitimate children at the family reunion. It is from that perspective that I hope to be of some service to you.

Kentucky Law Survey: Professional Responsibility, William H. Fortune

Law Faculty Scholarly Articles

This article is a survey of recent Kentucky ethics cases and Kentucky Bar Association ethics opinions. The cases and opinions selected are those of general application but special interest.

The Relevance Of Religion To A Lawyer's Work: Legal Ethics, Leslie C. Griffin

Scholarly Works

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Taking The Cop Out Of Copping A Plea: Eradicating Police Prosecution Of Criminal Cases, Andrew Horwitz

Law Faculty Scholarship

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Publicity In High Profile Criminal Cases, H. Patrick Furman

Publications

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United States V. Mcveigh: Defending The Most Hated Man In America, Stephen Jones, Jennifer Gideon

Oklahoma Law Review

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Introductory Note: Symposium On Lawyering And Personal Values – Responding To The Problems Of Ethical Schizophrenia, Samuel J. Levine

Scholarly Works

In recent years, legal practitioners and scholars alike have identified a growing crisis in the legal profession. Increasingly, lawyers feel dissatisfied with the roles they are expected to play and the conduct demanded of them. In particular, many lawyers see a widening gap between their personal values and those employed in legal practice. In response to the dichotomy between personal and professional values, some lawyers attempt to develop a corresponding dichotomy in their personalities, separating the “professional self” from the “personal self.” Such a response, however, may lead to a kind of “ethical schizophrenia,” a condition in which an individual …

Informed Consent In Mediation: A Guiding Principle For Truly Educated Decisionmaking , Jacqueline Nolan-Haley

Faculty Scholarship

Informed consent has a central role to play in mediation. Without it, mediation's promises of autonomy and self-determination are empty. This Article has given the theoretical and policy justifications for a reform of mediation practice that honors the principle of informed consent. I have argued for a contextualized approach that takes into account mediation's location, the voluntariness of the parties' consent, and their representational status. This kind of analysis will lead to a more informed practice of mediation decisionmaking than exists currently and provide a perspective that can more prudently guide a mediator's conduct. The proposed approach promotes greater fairness …

Independent Counsel And Vigorous Investigation And Prosecution, William Michael Treanor

Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works

This essay draws on the examples of Watergate and Iran-Contra to offer a new perspective on Independent Counsel and their ability to investigate and prosecute high-level wrongdoing. The current consensus is that an Independent Counsel, appointed by judges of the special court pursuant to the Ethics in Government Act, will invariably investigate and prosecute crimes more vigorously than a Special Prosecutor appointed by the President or the Attorney General. Watergate and Iran-Contra suggest, however, that there are institutional and political factors that make analysis of the comparative tendencies of the two types of prosecutors more complex and dependent on circumstance. …

Attorney-Client Privilege: The Eroding Concept Of Confidentiality Should Be Abolished, Paul Rice

Scholarly Articles in Law Reviews & Journals

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Professing Professionals: Christian Pilots On The River Of Law, Daniel O. Conkle

Articles by Maurer Faculty

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Ethical Issues Panel Symposium: The Future Of Legal Services: Legal And Ethical Implications Of The Lsc Restrictions, Stephen Ellmann

Articles & Chapters

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Hear No Evil, See No Evil, Speak No Evil: The Intolerable Conflict For Attorney-Mediators Between The Duty To Maintain Mediation Confidentiality And The Duty To Report Fellow Attorney Misconduct, Pamela A. Kentra

BYU Law Review

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Former-Client Conflicts, Charles W. Wolfram

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

The Case Of Mrs. Jones Revisited: Paternalism And Autonomy In Lawyer-Client Counseling, Mark Spiegel

BYU Law Review

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Cries And Whispers: Environmental Hazards, Model Rule 1.6, And The Attorney's Conflicting Duties To Clients And Others, Irma S. Russell

Faculty Works

This article examines the ethical tensions lawyers face when client confidentiality conflicts with the potential for environmental harm. This article focuses on Model Rule 1.6 of the Model Rules of Professional Conduct, arguing that its categorical approach to confidentiality often compels silence even when public safety is at stake. By exploring the role of attorneys as both client advocates and officers of the court, the article critiques the profession’s prioritization of the “attorney as champion” model. Using the hypothetical of a domestic environmental disaster akin to Bhopal, the article highlights the inadequacy of current ethical rules to address widespread …

Representing Race Outside Of Explicitly Racialized Contexts, Naomi R. Cahn

Michigan Law Review

Welfare "as we know it" ended in 1996, a victim of a conservatism that views welfare recipients as lazy and immoral. One aspect of welfare that is, however, unlikely to experience radical change is child support. More vigorous child support enforcement has become an increasingly important component of federal welfare reform bills over the past two decades because of the twin hopes of fiscal and parental responsibility: first, that child support will reimburse welfare costs, and second, that fathers will take more responsibility for their children. Child support programs within the welfare system perpetuate a negative perception of poor people. …

The Underrepresentation Of Minorities In The Legal Profession: A Critical Race Theorist's Perspective, Alex M. Johnson Jr.

Michigan Law Review

Over the last four years, I have taught a course in Critical Race Theory at the University of Virginia School of Law three times. Although each course is different, given the interplay between the teacher and the students and the integration of new developments into the course, there has been one constant subject that the students and I address: Of what import is the development of Critical Race Theory for the legal profession and larger society? Can Critical Race Theory have a positive or any effect for those outside legal academia? This article represents an attempt to explore that question …

The 1996 Florida Administrative Procedure Act's Attorney's Fees Reforms: Creating Innovative Solutions Or New Problems?, Elizabeth C. Williamson

Florida State University Law Review

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From "Moral Stupidity" To Professional Responsibility, Thomas D. Eisele

Faculty Articles and Other Publications

Within the context-even, the challenge-presented by the first chapter of Seymour Wishman's book, Confessions of a Criminal Lawyer, we symposiasts have been invited to say something about the teaching of courses which in law school go under the titles, "Legal Ethics," "Professional Ethics," or "Professional Responsibility." This last is the
title of a two-credit course that I teach, in what I take to be a fairly traditional form, over the span of a semester at the University of Cincinnati. In this essay, I want to talk about the teaching of such a course; not about how I manage to teach …

The Mpre Reconsidered, Leslie C. Levin

Kentucky Law Journal

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Introduction: What Will We Do When Adjudication Ends? A Brief Intellectual History Of Adr, Carrie Menkel-Meadow

Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works

I begin by thanking the UCLA Law Review, and particularly Darrin Mollet and Bryce Johnson, for seeing the timeliness of the topic of alternative dispute resolution and organizing this Symposium-collecting some of the best thinkers, writers, and practitioners in the field to discuss, among other things, the economics of ADR, the role of lawyers, courts, and judges in ADR, and the application of ADR to a variety of substantive legal and regulatory problems. In this Introduction, I would like to introduce the topics and the authors, and put them in the larger context of the movement that is now called …