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Plain English Statutes And Readability: Pt. 1 - History, The Problem And The Case For A Statute, Reed Dickerson Jan 1985

Plain English Statutes And Readability: Pt. 1 - History, The Problem And The Case For A Statute, Reed Dickerson

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In 1965 Reed Dickerson, Professor of Law at the University of Indiana Law School, wrote the classic Fundamentals of Legal Drafting, published by Little Brown and Co., Boston, a book that has become the most referred to of all books on legal drafting. Little Brown and Co. will soon be publishing Professor Dickerson's Second Edition of Fundamentals of Legal Drafting. With the permission of the author and the publishers, the Michigan Bar Journal and the Plain English Committee are pleased to present excerpts from a chapter in the Second Edition regarding plain English statutes and readability.


Access To Justice -- Variations And Continuity Of A World-Wide Movement, Bryant G. Garth, Mauro Cappelletti, Nicolo Trocker Jan 1985

Access To Justice -- Variations And Continuity Of A World-Wide Movement, Bryant G. Garth, Mauro Cappelletti, Nicolo Trocker

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Saints And Sinners: On Gandhi's Lawyers And Touts, John A. Flood Jan 1984

Saints And Sinners: On Gandhi's Lawyers And Touts, John A. Flood

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The Arnolds Of Southwest Arkansas: 102 Years Of Law, Morris S. Arnold Jan 1984

The Arnolds Of Southwest Arkansas: 102 Years Of Law, Morris S. Arnold

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A Clinical Experience, Edwin H. Greenebaum Jan 1984

A Clinical Experience, Edwin H. Greenebaum

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The Professional School As A Focus For Clinical Education, Edwin H. Greenebaum Jan 1983

The Professional School As A Focus For Clinical Education, Edwin H. Greenebaum

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Rethinking The Legal Profession's Approach To Collective Self-Improvement: Competence And The Consumer Perspective, Bryant G. Garth Jan 1983

Rethinking The Legal Profession's Approach To Collective Self-Improvement: Competence And The Consumer Perspective, Bryant G. Garth

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Access To Justice: Variations And Continuity Of A World-Wide Movement, Bryant Garth, Mauro Cappelletti, Nicolo Trocker Jan 1982

Access To Justice: Variations And Continuity Of A World-Wide Movement, Bryant Garth, Mauro Cappelletti, Nicolo Trocker

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Book Review. Law In The Balance: Legal Services In The Eighties By Philip A. Thomas (Ed.), Bryant G. Garth Jan 1982

Book Review. Law In The Balance: Legal Services In The Eighties By Philip A. Thomas (Ed.), Bryant G. Garth

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Middlemen Of The Law: An Ethnographic Inquiry Into The English Legal Profession, John Flood Jan 1981

Middlemen Of The Law: An Ethnographic Inquiry Into The English Legal Profession, John Flood

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The accomplishments of empirical research are often presented in a context that fails to show the process by which the results came about. This article examines the problems, hitches, and struggles encountered in a research project carried out on the English bar. And emphasis is given to the difficulty of tackling hitherto unexplored occupations that have had a long history of resisting research.


Save The Legal Services Corporation, Thomas Ehrlich Jan 1981

Save The Legal Services Corporation, Thomas Ehrlich

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Legal Services For Poor People, Thomas Ehrlich Jan 1981

Legal Services For Poor People, Thomas Ehrlich

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Law Deans' "Open Letter" Tells Of Student Skills Training Plan, Sheldon J. Plager, Frank T. Read, David T. Link, Charles A. Ehren Jr. Jan 1981

Law Deans' "Open Letter" Tells Of Student Skills Training Plan, Sheldon J. Plager, Frank T. Read, David T. Link, Charles A. Ehren Jr.

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Book Review. Solicitors And The Wider Community By David Podmore, John Flood Jan 1981

Book Review. Solicitors And The Wider Community By David Podmore, John Flood

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Bringing The Educational Reforms Of The Cramton Report Into The Case Method Classroom -- Two Models, Gene R. Shreve Jan 1981

Bringing The Educational Reforms Of The Cramton Report Into The Case Method Classroom -- Two Models, Gene R. Shreve

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The Report and Recommendations of the Task Force on Lawyer Competency. The Role of the Law Schools appeared on August 10, 1979. The report was released under the auspices of the Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar of the American Bar Association. The title was quickly shortened to the Cramton Report, after Dean Roger Cramton, Chairman of the Task Force.

The Cramton Report advocates reform in law school coursework that would permit students simultaneously to explore and develop a greater number of skills relevant to practicing law. This Article advocates that these reforms' not be confined to …


Client-Lawyer Confidentiality, William D. Popkin Jan 1981

Client-Lawyer Confidentiality, William D. Popkin

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Four Cheers For Roger Cramton, Thomas Ehrlich Jan 1980

Four Cheers For Roger Cramton, Thomas Ehrlich

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The Benson Report: A Reactionary View Of Community Law Centres, Bryant G. Garth Jan 1980

The Benson Report: A Reactionary View Of Community Law Centres, Bryant G. Garth

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Book Review. Law, Intellect, And Education By Francis A. Allen, Gene R. Shreve Jan 1980

Book Review. Law, Intellect, And Education By Francis A. Allen, Gene R. Shreve

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Clear Legal Drafting: What's Holding Us Back?, F. Reed Dickerson Jan 1980

Clear Legal Drafting: What's Holding Us Back?, F. Reed Dickerson

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Charles H. Miller Lecture -- Lawyers And Their Public Responsibilities, Thomas Ehrlich Jan 1979

Charles H. Miller Lecture -- Lawyers And Their Public Responsibilities, Thomas Ehrlich

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Rationing Justice, Thomas Ehrlich Jan 1979

Rationing Justice, Thomas Ehrlich

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Barristers' Clerks, John Flood Jan 1979

Barristers' Clerks, John Flood

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This paper is based on a participant-observational study of barrister's clerks conducted in 1976. The results of the study are reported in the author's thesis entitled Barrister's Clerks.


Effect Of Representation On A Claimant's Success Rate -- Three Study Designs, William D. Popkin Jan 1979

Effect Of Representation On A Claimant's Success Rate -- Three Study Designs, William D. Popkin

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Giving Low-Income Americans Minimum Access To Legal Services, Thomas Ehrlich Jan 1978

Giving Low-Income Americans Minimum Access To Legal Services, Thomas Ehrlich

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Access To State Bar Examinations For Foreign-Trained Law School Graduates, Douglass Boshkoff Jan 1978

Access To State Bar Examinations For Foreign-Trained Law School Graduates, Douglass Boshkoff

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Altruism And Professionalism: Boston And The Rise Of Organized Legal Aid, 1900-1925, Part Ii, Michael Grossberg Jan 1978

Altruism And Professionalism: Boston And The Rise Of Organized Legal Aid, 1900-1925, Part Ii, Michael Grossberg

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The Boston Legal Aid Society was founded in 1900. In the years after 1910, led by General Counsel Reginald Heber Smith, the Society assumed leadership of the fledgling movement to offer legal services to the urban poor. Under its influence the first organized attack on the legal problems of the impoverished was launched. The effort had its origins in the social and professional crises that beset turn of the century American cities and lawyers. As described in the first installment of this article, the major difficulty facing the movement during this generative era was how to balance the conflicting demands …


Altruism And Professionalism: Boston And The Rise Of Organized Legal Aid, 1900-1925, Part I, Michael Grossberg Jan 1978

Altruism And Professionalism: Boston And The Rise Of Organized Legal Aid, 1900-1925, Part I, Michael Grossberg

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With Justice For All (And Legal Services For Some), Thomas Ehrlich Jan 1978

With Justice For All (And Legal Services For Some), Thomas Ehrlich

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Book Review. Lawyers, Law Students And People By Thomas L. Shaffer And Robert S. Redmount, Gene R. Shreve Jan 1978

Book Review. Lawyers, Law Students And People By Thomas L. Shaffer And Robert S. Redmount, Gene R. Shreve

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