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Vol. 13, No. 6 (December 1989)

Exordium

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Autonomy Of Law And The Origins Of The Legal Profession, Bruce W. Frier

Cardozo Law Review

No abstract provided.

It May Be Precedent: Husband, Wife On Bench

Sheldon Plager (1977-1984)

No abstract provided.

Iu Prof Couple May Represent Judicial History

Sheldon Plager (1977-1984)

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Iu Law Professor Sworn In As Judge On Appellate Level, Kurt Van Der Dussen

Sheldon Plager (1977-1984)

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Five Bloomington Law Fellows Named

Val Nolan Jr. (1976 Acting; 1980 Acting)

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Vol. 13, No. 5 (November 1989)

Exordium

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Minutes Of The Meeting Of The National Bar Association Las Vegas Chapter, Las Vegas Chapter Of The National Bar Association

Membership Meetings

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Fall 1989

Transcript

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Volume 12, Issue 2 (Fall 1989)

Transcript

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Vol. 13, No. 4 (October 1989)

Exordium

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Contingent Fees Without Contingencies: Hamlet Without The Prince Of Demark?, Lester Brickman

Articles

According to conventional wisdom virtually all contingent fee percentages exceeding fifty percent are illegal and excessive, but most lower percentages are valid. This Article challenges the conventional wisdom, an amalgam of the unassailability of the standard one-third rate, notions of fairness versus price gouging, lawyer effort versus lawyer' reward, and the right of a lawyer to contract freely for a fee. It advances instead two propositions for determining the legitimacy of contingent fees. The first is that for a contingent fee to be valid, there must be an actual contingency, which means a realistic risk of nonrecovery. Though this proposition …

1989 Academy Of Law Alumni Fellows Awards And Law Conference Dinner Program

Val Nolan Jr. (1976 Acting; 1980 Acting)

Val Nolan, Jr. was one of the recipients of the Academy of Law Alumni Fellows Award in 1989.

Foreword: Telling Stories, Kim Lane Schepple

Michigan Law Review

Why is there such a rush to storytelling? Why has narrative become such an important and recurring theme in legal scholarship these days?

This issue testifies to the attractiveness of, and limits to, storytelling as a force in law. But whose stories are told? Who listens? And who responds? This symposium explores these questions, challenging traditional practices and exploring new ones in the telling of stories in the law. One important lesson that can be learned from this issue is that narrative is a way of organizing, coping with, even acting on the world. Stories carry power because they have …

Empathy, Legal Storytelling, And The Rule Of Law: New Words, Old Wounds?, Toni M. Massaro

Michigan Law Review

The legal storytelling theme that is the focus of this symposium is part of a larger, ongoing intellectual movement. American legal scholarship of the past several decades has revealed deep dissatisfaction with the abstract and collective focus of law and legal discourse. The rebellion against abstraction has, of late, been characterized by a "call to context." One strand of this complex body of thought argues that law should concern itself more with the concrete lives of persons affected by it. One key word in the dialogue is the term "empathy," which appears frequently in the work of critical legal studies, …

Persuasion, Joseph William Singer

Michigan Law Review

Lawyers spend a lot of time attempting to persuade other people. They persuade judges to promulgate rules of law that favor their clients. They persuade their law partners to adopt their interpretation of existing law or to adopt their strategy for litigation. They persuade clients to accept the dictates of the law. They persuade adversaries in settlement negotiations and their clients' business associates in contract negotiations. They persuade legislatures to fund legal services for the poor, to adopt or to reject law reforms.

Law professors spend most of their time teaching - or at least practicing - the art of …

Storytelling For Oppositionists And Others: A Plea For Narrative, Richard Delgado

Michigan Law Review

This essay examines the use of stories in the struggle for racial reform. Part I shows how we construct social reality by devising and passing on stories - interpretive structures by which we impose order on experience and it on us. To illustrate how stories structure reality, I choose a single race-tinged event and tell it in the form of five stories or narratives. Each account is followed by analysis, showing what the story includes and leaves out and how it perpetuates one version of social reality rather than another. Part II deals with counterstories, competing versions that can be …

A Tale Of Two Clients: Thinking About Law As Language, Clark D. Cunningham

Michigan Law Review

This is a true story. It is actually three true stories. The article taken as a whole tells a story of my personal search for a new way of talking about the experience of being a lawyer, a quest which is leading me to think more and more about law as a kind of language and lawyering as a form of translation. Rather like a medieval romance, embedded within this story of a quest are two tales, about clients I have represented in the course of my clinical teaching.

As much as possible, both levels of narrative are presented in …

The Cognitive Dimension Of The Agon Between Legal Power And Narrative Meaning, Steven L. Winter

Michigan Law Review

In Part II, I first provide a brief description of what we are learning about the grounded and imaginative nature of the cognitive process. I then elaborate the cognitive structure of the concept narrative and consider the manner in which we employ that concept in recognizing, understanding, and constructing narratives of all types - from folktales like the midrash to avant-garde literature like Waiting for Godot. In Part III, I employ this information about the cognitive and narrative processes to explore the secondary role of narrative in the institutionalization of legal and social meaning. I will identify the cognitive …

Introducing The New Bill Of Particulars, Bryant G. Garth

Bryant Garth (1986-1987 Acting; 1987-1990)

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Esq. Wires Vol. 1 No. 2, Touro College Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center Alumni Association

Yearbooks and Newsletters

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Megalaw In The U.K.: Professionalism Or Corporatism? A Preliminary Report, John Flood

Indiana Law Journal

The Growth of Large Law Firms and Its Effect on the Legal Profession and Legal Education, Symposium

Should Lawyers Stick To Their Last?, Justin A. Stanley

Indiana Law Journal

The Growth of Large Law Firms and Its Effect on the Legal Profession and Legal Education, Symposium

Looking At Large Law Firms: Any Role Left For The Law Schools?, Bryant C. Danner

Indiana Law Journal

The Growth of Large Law Firms and Its Effect on the Legal Profession and Legal Education, Symposium

Legal Future Shock: The Role Of Larger Law Firms By The End Of The Century, James F. Fitzpatrick

Indiana Law Journal

The Growth of Large Law Firms and Its Effect on the Legal Profession and Legal Education, Symposium

Law, Lawyers, And Legal Practice In Silicon Valley: A Preliminary Report, Lawrence M. Friedman, Robert W. Gordon, Sophie Pirie, Edwin Whatley

Indiana Law Journal

The Growth of Large Law Firms and Its Effect on the Legal Profession and Legal Education, Symposium

The Inside Counsel Movement, Professional Judgment And Organizational Representation, Robert Eli Rosen

Indiana Law Journal

The Growth of Large Law Firms and Its Effect on the Legal Profession and Legal Education, Symposium

Summer 1989

Bill of Particulars

No abstract provided.

Theory And The Professions, Eliot Freidson

Indiana Law Journal

The Growth of Large Law Firms and Its Effect on the Legal Profession and Legal Education, Symposium

Speculation By A Customer About The Future Of Large Law Firms, Duncan A. Mcdonald

Indiana Law Journal

The Growth of Large Law Firms and Its Effect on the Legal Profession and legal Education, Symposium