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Tribute To Judge Merhige, Orran L. Brown Nov 2005

Tribute To Judge Merhige, Orran L. Brown

University of Richmond Law Review

No abstract provided.


Observations On The Status And Impact Of The Judicial Confirmation Process, Edith H. Jones Mar 2005

Observations On The Status And Impact Of The Judicial Confirmation Process, Edith H. Jones

University of Richmond Law Review

No abstract provided.


Reconciling Pinstripes And Pearls, Carl W. Tobias, Margaret L. Sanner Jan 2005

Reconciling Pinstripes And Pearls, Carl W. Tobias, Margaret L. Sanner

Law Faculty Publications

Review of Judith Richards Hope, Pinstripes & Pearls: The Women of the Harvard Law School Class of '64 Who Forged an Old-Girl Network and Paved the Way for Future Generations (2003)


Professional Responsibility, James M. Mccauley Nov 2004

Professional Responsibility, James M. Mccauley

University of Richmond Law Review

No abstract provided.


Can Paralegals Replace Corporate Lawyers?, Porcher L. Taylor Iii Jan 2002

Can Paralegals Replace Corporate Lawyers?, Porcher L. Taylor Iii

School of Professional and Continuing Studies Faculty Publications

I predict that by 2010, expense will force many of the nation's largest law firm radically to alter the lawyer-paralegal ratio. Hundreds of corporate clients intent on controlling high legal fees will drive this change. Consequently, we may see a new kind of law firm gain popularity: firms with more paralegals than lawyers. Even today, the law of paralegal economics sing a soothing tune to corporate America.


The Delivery Of Legal Services Through Multidisciplinary Practices, James M. Mccauley Jan 2000

The Delivery Of Legal Services Through Multidisciplinary Practices, James M. Mccauley

Richmond Public Interest Law Review

During the last decade, the "Big Six" accounting firms entered into the legal services market overseas by establishing, acquiring, or forming ties with law firms around the world. These entities or business relationships have been called "multidisciplinary practices" or MDPs. Unlike the United States, many European countries do not prohibit partnerships and fee splitting arrangements between lawyers and nonlawyers. The February 1998 issue of the American Bar Association Journal published an article entitled "Squeeze Play" describing a turf war between the major accounting firms and lawyers practicing law in Europe. KPMG Peat Marwick, Arthur Andersen, Ernst & Young, Price Waterhouse, …


The Delivery Of Legal Services Through Multidisciplinary Practices, James M. Mccauley Jan 2000

The Delivery Of Legal Services Through Multidisciplinary Practices, James M. Mccauley

Richmond Journal of Law and the Public Interest

During the last decade, the "Big Six" accounting firms entered into the legal services market overseas by establishing, acquiring, or forming ties with law firms around the world. These entities or business relationships have been called "multidisciplinary practices" or MDPs. Unlike the United States, many European countries do not prohibit partnerships and fee splitting arrangements between lawyers and nonlawyers. The February 1998 issue of the American Bar Association Journal published an article entitled "Squeeze Play" describing a turf war between the major accounting firms and lawyers practicing law in Europe. KPMG Peat Marwick, Arthur Andersen, Ernst & Young, Price Waterhouse, …


The Law Professor As Populist, Mark A. Graber Jan 2000

The Law Professor As Populist, Mark A. Graber

University of Richmond Law Review

A new populism is taking root in the strangest soil, American law schools. Tocqueville regarded "the profession of law" as an "aristocratic element," "a sort of privileged body in the scale of intellect." Lawyers, he observed, belonged to "thehighest political class," and routinely developed "some of the tastes and habits of aristocracy." During the 1990s, however, bold challenges to elite rule in the name ofpopular majoritarianism were issued by distinguished professors and chair holders at the most prestigious law schools in the United States. Such leading jurists as Richard Parker, Jack Balkin, Akbil Reed Amar, Sanford Levinson, and Mark Tushnet …


Book Review, The Digital Practice Of Law: A Practical Reference For Applying Technology Concepts To The Practice Of Law, Timothy L. Coggins Jan 2000

Book Review, The Digital Practice Of Law: A Practical Reference For Applying Technology Concepts To The Practice Of Law, Timothy L. Coggins

Law Faculty Publications

A book review on Michael R. Arkfeld's 4th edition of, The Digital Practice of Law: a Practical Reference for Applying Technology Concepts to the Practice of Law.


The Legal Profession And Its Future: Recapturing The Ideal Of The Statesman-Lawyer, Timothy J. Sullivan Jan 1998

The Legal Profession And Its Future: Recapturing The Ideal Of The Statesman-Lawyer, Timothy J. Sullivan

University of Richmond Law Review

My subject is our profession and its future-a future measured not by the condition of its bottom line, but by the state of its soul. And my message is one of profound concern.


Information Redlining: A List Of Selected Readings, Timothy L. Coggins Jan 1996

Information Redlining: A List Of Selected Readings, Timothy L. Coggins

Law Faculty Publications

In earlier essays Henry Perritt, Marvin Anderson, Gary Bass and Patrice McDermott discuss the increasing use of computers to access information through the information superhighway, the Internet and online services, the increasing reliance on electronic formats by publishers and the federal government and the continuing debate about "information redlining." They indicate that information redlining is broader than just the availability and effects of technology and enhanced online services on lower income, minority and rural communities. It also deals with what information will be available to these groups. As more and more data comes in digital form and when some information …


Legal Advice Toward Illegal Ends, Joel S. Newman Jan 1994

Legal Advice Toward Illegal Ends, Joel S. Newman

University of Richmond Law Review

Suppose you discovered a wonderful fishing hole hidden on some public lands. Would you be obligated to tell others about it? Of course not. But, could you go out of your way to hide its existence? Of course not-especially not from your friends.


A Tribute To Professor Willie Moore, Okianer Christian Dark Jan 1993

A Tribute To Professor Willie Moore, Okianer Christian Dark

University of Richmond Law Review

I first met Professor Willie Moore during the 1989-90 recruitment season for law faculty. Willie came to our law school to meet with the Dean, faculty and students. There was much excitement among the faculty concerning his visit to the law school. Many persons had already reviewed his credentials - valedictorian of his high school class; an honors graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; graduate of Yale University Law School; law clerk to Judge Damon J. Keith on the Federal Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit; former associate at Mitchell, Silberberg & Knupp in Los …


Lawyer Competence: Perceptual Prisms, Self-Scrutiny, And The Looking Glass, Jonathan K. Stubbs Jan 1993

Lawyer Competence: Perceptual Prisms, Self-Scrutiny, And The Looking Glass, Jonathan K. Stubbs

Law Faculty Publications

In recent years legal academia has begun to reimbrace in its scholarship an old and effective teaching device: narrative. This Essay respectfully tips its analytical mortar board in the direction of this venerable tradition passed down through countless generations of teachers and learners, inside the academy and out, and acknowledges a literary "debt" to Lewis Carroll as we consider a classic exchange between Alice and Humpty Dumpty. ...


Unlocking The Chamber Doors: Limiting Confidentiality In Proceedings Before The Virginia Judicial Inquiry And Review Commission, Brian R. Pitney Jan 1992

Unlocking The Chamber Doors: Limiting Confidentiality In Proceedings Before The Virginia Judicial Inquiry And Review Commission, Brian R. Pitney

University of Richmond Law Review

In a Mississippi case, a judge imposed and collected criminal fines, then willfully and fraudulently documented the case as dismissed, keeping the money for himself. In California, the Commission of Judicial Qualifications removed a judge for prodding an attorney with a "dildo," grabbing a court commissioner by his testicles in a public hallway, and habitually making offensive sexual remarks at his office. A Massachusetts judge received public censure for making derogatory and obscene references to members of the bench and bar, becoming intoxicated and urinating in public, and setting unusually high bail for African-American defendants. After a Federal Bureau of …


Procedural Solutions To The Attorney's Fee Problem In Complex Litigation, Christopher P. Lu Jan 1991

Procedural Solutions To The Attorney's Fee Problem In Complex Litigation, Christopher P. Lu

University of Richmond Law Review

Justice William Brennan once observed that disputes about attorneys' fees are "one of the least socially productive types of litigation imaginable." Socially productive or not, attorneys' fees are a major problem in complex litigation today because of both the time and resources needed to determine appropriate fees and the public perception that fees are excessive. While the attorneys' fee problem is not unique to complex suits, the problem is magnified because: 1) complex suits are often more protracted than ordinary suits and necessarily require more lawyers; 2) many fee shifting statutes can be triggered in complex suits; and 3) class …


Foreword: Law And The Library, Timothy L. Coggins Jan 1991

Foreword: Law And The Library, Timothy L. Coggins

Law Faculty Publications

A Foreword for the North Carolina Libaries Journal on "Law and the Library."


Remembering Nina R. Kestin, Kenneth E. Powell Jan 1990

Remembering Nina R. Kestin, Kenneth E. Powell

University of Richmond Law Review

There are many people whose lives are different because Ricki Kestin was in it. I am one of those people. You will understand when I tell you that I did not want to speak today; that I did not want to tell you what I knew or thought or felt about Ricki.


Invalidation Of Residency Requirements For Admission To The Bar: Opportunities For General Reform, Paul G. Gill Jan 1989

Invalidation Of Residency Requirements For Admission To The Bar: Opportunities For General Reform, Paul G. Gill

University of Richmond Law Review

Individuals must jump several major hurdles to earn the right to practice law. One hurdle state bars have traditionally imposed is the requirement that applicants demonstrate their residency in that state. This must be done either upon application, prior to admission, or upon admission. A residency requirement has been imposed on both applicants applying for admission by examination, and attorney applicants admitted on motion without exam.


Leon Jaworski, William Hamilton Bryson Jan 1989

Leon Jaworski, William Hamilton Bryson

Law Faculty Publications

An encyclopedia entry on Lew Jaworski


A Love Of Excellence, Harry L. Carrico Jan 1988

A Love Of Excellence, Harry L. Carrico

University of Richmond Law Review

This is an address delivered by Harry L. Carrico, Chief Justice of the Virginia Supreme Court, at the T. C. Williams School of Law annual banquet honoring merit scholarship sponsors and recipients. At this banquet, Dean Joseph D. Harbaughpresented Justice Carricowith a plaque honoringhim for his unique and extensive contributions both to the legal profession in Virginia and to the T. C. Williams Law School.


Virginia: The Unauthorized Practice Of Law Experience, Michael L. Rigsby Jan 1985

Virginia: The Unauthorized Practice Of Law Experience, Michael L. Rigsby

University of Richmond Law Review

In the early days of America's development, the attorney-at-law was little needed. While law was a popular study, the pioneering nature of the settlers dictated that each look out for his own interests. Delegation to counsel was unnecessary.'


The Investigation Of Good Moral Character For Admission To The Virginia Bar - Time For A Change, Kristine M. Trevino Jan 1985

The Investigation Of Good Moral Character For Admission To The Virginia Bar - Time For A Change, Kristine M. Trevino

University of Richmond Law Review

One of the most essential and critical components of a democratic society is the law profession. Lawyers are charged with the preeminent duty of assisting citizens in the maintenance of their individual rights. Because of a lawyer's "enviable position of prestige and respect," he "enjoy[s] much public confidence and trust." Therefore, society expects, and the profession demands, that only individuals possessing an adequate degree of intelligence, education, and good moral character be permitted to practice law.


The Coming Of Legal Specialization, O. Randolph Rollins Jan 1985

The Coming Of Legal Specialization, O. Randolph Rollins

University of Richmond Law Review

A great debate rages across the ranks of the legal profession about the need to regulate claims by lawyers that they are specialists in particular fields of practice. Members of our profession express outrage when another lawyer lists himself under the anti- trust or tax headings in the Yellow Pages complaining that that lawyer calls "them" when he needs anti-trust or tax advice. Lawyers profess astonishment when they see an advertisement by another attorney cataloguing a number of fields in which that attorney practices. They ask how could any person-much less a lawyer who advertises-be a "specialist" in so many …


The Virginia Bar, 1870-1900, William Hamilton Bryson Jan 1984

The Virginia Bar, 1870-1900, William Hamilton Bryson

Law Faculty Publications

An essay on the Virginia bar from 1870 to 1900 rnust begin with a definition of a Virginia attorney-at-law. In 1870 and for the next twenty-five years, a Virginia lawyer was "any person" over the age of twenty-one of "honest demeanor" who had been examined for fitness and licensed to practice law by any two judges of Virginia courts of record. Having been licensed, each attorney must have then "qualified" to practice in each court in which he wished to appear. This was done by swearing in that court to demean himself honestly in the practice of law and to …


The Abolition Of The Forms Of Action In Virginia, W. Hamilton Bryson Jan 1983

The Abolition Of The Forms Of Action In Virginia, W. Hamilton Bryson

University of Richmond Law Review

The common law procedure for initiating actions at law in the English courts required a plaintiff to obtain a writ invoking the jurisdiction of the court and to file a declaration setting forth the facts that justified instigation of the suit and established the cause of the action. This clumsy and archaic system of litigation was abolished by a single chop of the legislative guillotine in New York in 1848. England followed suit in 1875, and the United States federal courts in 1938. Writs and declarations were replaced by simple forms which were copied from the practice of the equity …


Lawyer Advertising: Permissibility Of Indicating The Nature Of Legal Practice In Advertisements, Kenneth J. Alcott Jan 1982

Lawyer Advertising: Permissibility Of Indicating The Nature Of Legal Practice In Advertisements, Kenneth J. Alcott

University of Richmond Law Review

Canon 27 of the ABA Canons of Professional Ethics, adopted by the American Bar Association in 1908, provided that it was "unprofessional" for lawyers to advertise or solicit professional employment. This prohibition made sense in a time when most lawyers were general practitioners and communities were small, so that a lawyer's reputation was well known. However, the increasing size and complexity of both society and the law have made it necessary for lawyers to select certain areas of law in which to practices in order to develop the expertise necessary to deal with today's complex legal issues. A corresponding need …


Corporate Attorney-Client Privilege - New Emphasis On The Lawyer's Need To Know: Upjohn Co. V. United States, Michael J. Viscount Jr. Jan 1981

Corporate Attorney-Client Privilege - New Emphasis On The Lawyer's Need To Know: Upjohn Co. V. United States, Michael J. Viscount Jr.

University of Richmond Law Review

In seeking the advice of legal counsel, the corporation may, out of necessity, communicate through its representatives confidential secrets about its conduct in business. As is the case with individuals, it is well settled that a corporation may avail itself of the evidentiary privilege which allows concealment of such confidential communications. This so-called attorney-client privilege is the oldest of the privileges for confidential communications known to the common law. However, its application in the corporate context has been quite unpredictable for the past twenty years.


The Questionable Validity Of The Automatic Exemption Of Attorneys From Jury Service, Barbara Ann Dalvano Jan 1980

The Questionable Validity Of The Automatic Exemption Of Attorneys From Jury Service, Barbara Ann Dalvano

University of Richmond Law Review

On January 10, 1980 Senator Emick proposed a bill in the Virginia General Assembly to abolish the automatic and optional exemptions from jury service of persons engaged in certain occupations. The bill was not passed in its proposed form. Section 8.01-341, providing optional exemptions, still remains in force in its entirety. Automatic exemptions, however, were eliminated for optometrists, clerks of both houses of the General Assembly, ministers, jail keepers, superintendents of public and mental hospitals, undertakers, veterinarians, members of fire departments, pharmacists, clinical psychologists and citizens of Broad Water and Cobb Islands. Licensed practicing attorneys, however, along with several other …


Dedication - J. Westwood Smithers Jan 1979

Dedication - J. Westwood Smithers

University of Richmond Law Review

Mr. Smithers has been associated with the T. C. Williams School of Law for 50 years, both as a student and as a professor. Over the course of the half-century which has passed since he began his first year as a student in the old building on Lombardy Street, Mr. Smithers has served as example, mentor and friend to countless scores of students and attorneys both within and outside the state. He taught his last regular class at T. C. Williams last year, leaving behind a school saddened by his departure, yet richer for his service. The Editorial Board, therefore, …