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The Impact Of The Close Relationship Between American Law Schools And The Practicing Bar, Lawrence C. Foster

Journal of Legal Education

No abstract provided.

Clinical Legal Education In The United States: In-House Clinics, Externships, And Simulations, Elliott S. Milstein

Journal of Legal Education

No abstract provided.

The Aba's Standards For The Accreditation Of Law Schools, Robert K. Walsh

Journal of Legal Education

No abstract provided.

Conference Program

Freedman Institute for the Study of Legal Ethics Conferences

No abstract provided.

Jul. 5, 2001, P. Woicke, Ifc Evp, Letter To F. Seymour, Wri, Re Ifc Envtl Record, Peter L. Woicke

IFC E&S Performance Standards

No abstract provided.

Tainted Prosecution Of Tainted Claims: The Law, Economics, And Ethics Of Fighting Medical Fraud Under The Civil False Claims Act, Dayna Bowen Matthew

Indiana Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Legal Scholarship As A Vocation, David Luban

Journal of Legal Education

No abstract provided.

The Professional Responsibilities Of Professors, Deborah L. Rhode

Journal of Legal Education

No abstract provided.

May 3, 2001, Agenda, Mtg Of Cao Ref. Grp. W Attachments, Cao

CAO General 1999-Present

No abstract provided.

A Transcript Of The March 10, 2001 Luncheon Speech, Patrick E. Higginbotham

Mercer Law Review

Introduction of Judge Higginbotham by Professor Patrick Longan

Judge Higginbotham comes to us from Dallas. He has had a very distinguished career. He was a United States District Judge in Dallas for seven years and then was appointed to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. In addition to his judicial duties, he has served in a number of capacities throughout his career. Most recently he served a four-year term as president of the American Inns of Court Foundation. He has served as the Chairman of the Advisory Committee on Civil Rules. He has done a number …

Symposium Introduction - Ethics In Settlement Negotiations: Foreward, Patrick Emery Longan

Mercer Law Review

On March 9 and 10, 2001, Mercer University's Walter F. George School of Law and its Mercer Center for Legal Ethics and Professionalism held a Symposium on ethical issues in settlement negotiations. Funding for the Symposium came from a consent order, signed by United States District Judge Hugh Lawson, in which the DuPont Corporation settled claims of litigation misconduct in exchange for a payment of $11 million. Each of the four accredited law schools in Georgia received $2.5 million to endow a faculty chair in ethics and professionalism, and the other $1 million was set aside to endow an annual …

Symposium Article - The Incompleteness Of The Model Rules And The Development Of Professional Standards, Nathan M. Crystal

Mercer Law Review

Rules and standards of professional conduct are proliferating. In November 2000, the American Bar Association's ("ABA's") Ethics 2000 Commission released its final report recommending changes in the ABA's Model Rules of Professional Conduct. Earlier in the year the American Law Institute ("ALI") issued its long awaited Restatement of the Law Governing Lawyers.

The Model Rules and the Restatement are similar in two respects. Both contain detailed rules and both are comprehensive, covering relationships between lawyers and their clients, the courts, and third parties. Standards prepared by other organizations, however, have taken a narrower approach. Some have focused on particular activities …

Session Three: Fairness Issues In Negotiation

Mercer Law Review

No abstract provided.

Session Four: Special Issues In Assisted Settlement

Mercer Law Review

No abstract provided.

Symposium Speech - Those Who Worry About The Ethics Of Negotiation Should Never Be Viewed As Just Another Set Of Service Providers, Lawrence J. Fox

Mercer Law Review

It is an honor to address this distinguished group of lawyers and law students this evening as part of the very first Symposium funded by the duPont Company's generosity by way of Judge Lawson. The issues important themes in the bigger professional responsibility arena, and examining them with this level of care can inform the profession more widely.

It is ironic then that when Professor Pat Longan invited me to give the keynote address, he himself negotiated my appearance in a highly questionable manner. "Would I like to be the keynote speaker at this upcoming Symposium?" Would I? Of course, …

Session One: Limits On Misleading Conduct

Mercer Law Review

A transcript featuring The Honorable Thomas Zlaket, Wm. Reece Smith, Jr., Esq., Professor Nathan Crystal, and Professor Amy Mashburn, Moderator

Session Two: Conditional Settlement Agreements

Mercer Law Review

A transcript featuring The Honorable Marvin Aspen, Evett Simmons, Esq., Professor Ronald Ellington, and Professor Bruce Green, Moderator

Resolving The Mdp Issue: Deciding If The Status Quo Is What's Best For The Client, Julia J. Hall

Mercer Law Review

On the forefront of the current debate surrounding legal ethics is the heated question of whether the legal profession should permit its members to participate in multidisciplinary practices or partnerships ("MDPs") and thereby share fees with nonlawyers. Currently, this conduct is prohibited by the Model Rules of Professional Conduct. This issue clearly has global implications for various professions desiring to partner with attorneys, and those persons with interest in this area have followed the debate closely as viewpoints are researched and expressed in support of one position over another. Nonetheless, the American Bar Association ("ABA") has effectively closed the door …

Hate And The Bar: Is The Hale Case Mccarthyism Redux Or A Victory For Racial Equality?, W. Bradley Wendel

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

The application of the constitutional free expression guarantee to the activities of the organized bar is one of the most important unexplored areas of legal ethics. In this essay I will consider in particular the question of whether an applicant may be denied admission to the bar for involvement with hateful or discriminatory activities. This question reveals the tension between the first amendment principle, established after the agonizing struggles of the McCarthy era, that no one may be denied membership in the bar because of his or her beliefs alone, and the plenary authority of bar associations to make predictive …

Through The Lens Of The Sequence, Ellen Wright Clayton

Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications

The completion of the rough draft of the human genome is a scientific feat worthy of celebration. But the media attention that has been devoted to the Human Genome Project demonstrates that most people are not as interested in what the sequence is as in what it means for individuals and for society, for good or for ill. My purpose in writing this essay is to discuss how the project was conducted here in the United States, and some of the implications of knowing the sequence (or more aptly, a sequence).

The Duty Of Confidentiality, Roger C. Cramton

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Lawyer Advertising In The Electronic Age, Ronald D. Rotunda, Louise L. Hill, Tom Spahn, Ted Allen, William Spruill

University of Richmond Law Review Symposium

The April 5, 2001 symposium consisted of an informal roundtable discussion for the presenters from 2:30-4:30 p.m., followed by a public evening program, from 6:00-8:30 p.m., which featured a role-playing portrayal of a mock disciplinary proceeding about a dispute over lawyer advertising.

Participants in the roundtable discussion were: Ronald D. Rotunda, the Albert E. Jenner, Jr. Professor of Law at the University of Illinois College of Law; Louise L. Hill, Professor of Law at the Widener University School of Law; and William Hornsby, Legal Counsel to the American Bar Association, Commission on Responsibility in Client Development.

The Moot Court program …

The Ethics Of Making The Body Beautiful: Lessons From Cosmetic Surgery For A Future Of Cosmetic Genetics, Sara Goering

Center for the Study of Ethics in Society Papers

This piece was originally published in the Philosophy and Public Policy Quarterly, Spring 2001 issue (from the Maryland Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy).

The Judiciary In The United States: A Search For Fairness, Independence And Competence, Stephen J. Shapiro

All Faculty Scholarship

Alexander Hamilton referred to the judiciary as “the least dangerous branch” because it could neither make nor enforce the law without help from the other two branches of government. In the years since then, however, courts and judges in the United States have assumed a much more prominent role in society. American judges preside over criminal trials and sentence those convicted, decide all kinds of civil disputes, both large and small, and make important decisions involving families, such as child custody. They have also become the primary guarantors of the civil and constitutional rights of American citizens.

The case of …

Attorney-Client Confidentiality And The Assessment Of Claimants Who Allege Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Robert H. Aronson, Lonnie Rosenwald, Gerald M. Rosen

Washington Law Review

Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) was first recognized by the American Psychiatric Association in 1980. A PTSD diagnosis requires an individual or individual's loved ones to have experienced a traumatic event that was a threat to life or physical integrity and caused the individual to react to the incident with a specific number of avoidance, reexperiencing, and hyper-arousal symptoms. Obtaining a PTSD diagnosis can be of great value to a personal-injury plaintiff who claims damages due to a traumatic event. Further, if the traumatic event is unquestioned and the individual reports the classic symptoms, a PTSD diagnosis is relatively easy to …

Session One: Limits On Misleading Conduct, Thomas Zlaket, William Reece Smith Jr., Nathan Crystal, Amy R. Mashburn

UF Law Faculty Publications

A Transcript Featuring the Honorable Thomas Zlaket, Wm. Reece Smith, Jr., Esq., Professor Nathan Crystal, and Professor Amy Mashburn, Moderator from the symposium - Ethical Issues in Settlement Negotiations, Session One: Limits on Misleading Conduct.

When People Are The Means: Negotiating With Respect, Jonathan R. Cohen

UF Law Faculty Publications

Most scholarship on negotiation ethics has focused on the topics of deception and disclosure. In this Article, I argue for considering a related, but distinct, ethical domain within negotiation ethics. That domain is the ethics of orientation. In contrast to most forms of human interaction, a clear purpose of negotiation is to get the other party to take an action on one's behalf, or at least to explore that possibility. This gives rise to a core ethical tension in negotiation that I call the object-subject tension: how does one reconcile the fact that the other party is a potential means …

Clark Memorandum: Spring 2001, J. Reuben Clark Law Society, J. Reuben Clark Law School

The Clark Memorandum

• Confirm Thy Soul in Self-Control (Elder D. Todd Christofferson)
• Lawyers and the Atonement (Thomas B. Griffith)
• Where the Rubber Meets the Road (David Bargatze)
• Duty to Rescue (Tessa M. Santiago)

Morality, Motivation, And The Professionalism Movement, W. Bradley Wendel

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Experience And Legal Ethics Teaching, James E. Moliterno

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.