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Liberating Lawyers: Diverging Parallels In Intruder In The Dust And To Kill A Mockingbird, Rob Atkinson

Scholarly Publications

Professor Atkinson hopes William Faulkner’s Intruder in the Dust will replace Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird as our favorite story of lawyerly virtue. In both stories, a white male lawyer and his protégé try to free a black man falsely accused of a capital crime. But below these superficial similarities, Professor Atkinson finds fundamental differences. To Kill a Mockingbird, with its father-knows-best attorney, Atticus Finch, celebrates lawyerly paternalism; Intruder in the Dust, through its aristocratic black hero, Lucas Beauchamp, and his lay allies, challenges the rule of lawyers, if not law itself. The first urges us to …

Engagement Letters In Transactional Practice: A Reporter's Reflections, D. Christopher Wells

Mercer Law Review

In recent years, lawyers have turned increasingly to written contracts, usually called "engagement letters," to memorialize their professional representations. This practice grows absent specific directives requiring such writings, apparently deriving from professional preference rather than mandatory rule. It grows also despite scant attention paid by law reviews and bar publications. Only infrequently do publications appear noting this practice or offering advice on drafting engagement letters. Even continuing legal education programs give them only occasional attention.

One of the most ambitious treatments of engagement letters came in 1997 from the State Bar of Georgia in the form of a report from …

William Burnett Harvey

William Harvey (1966-1971)

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One Trillion Dollars? An Analysis Ofy2k Employment Implications For Attorneys, David M. Kono

BYU Law Review

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Fall 1999

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Volume 22, Issue 2 (Fall 1999)

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An Introduction To The Paris Forum On Transnational Practice For The Legal Profession, Laurel Terry

Faculty Scholarly Works

This article focuses on the 1998 Paris Forum on Transnational Practice for the Legal Profession and introduces the papers contained in the Paris Forum Symposium. The Paris Forum was the first meeting of lawyers from around the world devoted solely to the topic of transnational legal practice. Before the Paris Forum, some bar organizations had set aside time during their meetings to discuss the transnational practice of law and issues related to transnational legal services also had been included as topics in general conferences. The multi-day Paris Forum, however, was the first multi-day conference devoted to this topic. This paper …

Memorial Service To Honor Former Dean Of Law School, Rachel Justis

William Harvey (1966-1971)

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Legal Education, Professionalism, And The Public Interest, Alfred C. Aman Jr.

Alfred Aman Jr. (1991-2002)

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Fall 1999

Bill of Particulars

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Legal Education, Professionalism, And The Public Interest, Alfred C. Aman

Articles by Maurer Faculty

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Br'er Rabbit Professionalism: A Homily On Moral Heroes And Lawyerly Mores, Rob Atkinson

Scholarly Publications

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Clark Memorandum: Fall 1999, J. Reuben Clark Law Society, J. Reuben Clark Law School

The Clark Memorandum

• The Four Deans
• Rex E. Lee
• Carl S. Hawkins
• Bruce C. Hafen
• H. Reese Hansen
• Gettysburg (Matthew Kennington)
• High Crimes and Misdemeanors? (Thomas R. Lee)

Interest Or Principles?: The Legal Challenge To Iolta In Washington State, Jay Carlson

Washington Law Review

Interest on Lawyer Trust Accounts (IOLTA) programs exist in all fifty states and raise significant funding for legal services for the poor. A recent series of federal court lawsuits seeks to eliminate IOLTA programs on the grounds that they violate the Fifth and First Amendments to the U.S. Constitution. Washington Legal Foundation v. Legal Foundation of Washington, currently on appeal to the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, is one such lawsuit challenging Washington State's IOLTA program. In Phillips v. Washington Legal Foundation, a similar case from Texas, the U.S. Supreme Court recently ruled that funds raised …

Remarks At Women's Conference Luncheon, Marjorie Creola Mix

Buffalo Women's Law Journal

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Race And Representation: A Study Of Legal Aid Attorneys And Their Perceptions Of The Significance Of Race, Roland Acevedo, Edward Hosp, Rachel Pomerantz

Buffalo Public Interest Law Journal

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The Politics Of The Clinton Impeachment And The Death Of The Independent Counsel Statute: Toward Depoliticization, Marjorie Cohn

West Virginia Law Review

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Lawyers And Their Discontents: Findings From A Survey Of The Chicago Bar, John P. Heinz, Kathleen E. Hull, Ava A. Harter

Indiana Law Journal

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A Tribute To James B. Boskey, Lela P. Love

Articles

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Mediation In The New Mexico Court Of Appeals, Richard Becker

The Journal of Appellate Practice and Process

A mediator gives a summary of the implementation of, procedure relating to, and role of lawyers in the New Mexico Court of Appeals’s mediation program.

Rules Of Appellate Advocacy: An Australian Perspective, Michael Kirby

The Journal of Appellate Practice and Process

A justice of Australia's highest court gives advice to appellate advocates. The essay begins with an overview of Australia’s judicial structure. The discussion then focuses on ten rules for appellate advocacy.

Standards For Certification Of Appellate Specialists, Melissa M. Serfass

The Journal of Appellate Practice and Process

This practice note surveys state requirements for certification of appellate practice specialists.

Better Late Than Never: Settlement At The Federal Court Of Appeals, Mori Irvine

The Journal of Appellate Practice and Process

The Civil Justice Reform Act of 1990 encouraged all federal district courts to implement alternative dispute resolution programs. Federal Courts of Appeals implemented alternative dispute resolution programs as early as 1974. This article surveys federal alternative dispute resolution programsthen takes an in-depth look at the Eleventh Circuit’s program. The article provides advice for appellate advocacy during mediation.

Commercial And Corporate Lawyers 'N The Hood, Alfred Dennis Mathewson

University of Arkansas at Little Rock Law Review

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Provoking Introspection: A Reply To Galanter & Palay, Hull, Kelly, Lesnick, Mclaughlin, Pepper, And Traynor, Patrick J. Schiltz

Vanderbilt Law Review

I have benefitted enormously from reading the Responses, and I am grateful to all of the commentators for entering into this conversation with me. There is much in each of the seven Responses to which I would like to reply-sometimes to agree, sometimes to disagree, sometimes to elaborate, sometimes just to express puzzlement. Unfortunately, though, my time and space are extremely limited. Given those limitations, I will first reply generally to Marc Galanter and Thomas Palay, Michael Kelly, Howard Lesnick, Stephen Pepper, and Michael Traynor, all of whom seem to be at least somewhat sympathetic to the underlying theme of …

On Being A Happy, Healthy, And Ethical Member Of An Unhappy, Unhealthy, And Unethical Profession, Patrick J. Schiltz

Vanderbilt Law Review

Dear Law Student: I have good news and bad news. The bad news is that the profession that you are about to enter is one of the most unhappy and unhealthy on the face of the earth--and, in the view of many, one of the most unethical. The good news is that you can join this profession and still be happy, healthy, and ethical. I am writing to tell you how. I. THE WELL-BEING OF LAWYERS Lawyers play an enormously important role in our society. "It is the lawyers who run our civilization for us-our governments, our business, our private …

Resisting The Current, Stephen L. Pepper

Vanderbilt Law Review

The occasion was a faculty lunch with presentations from three members of the local bar. One was a partner at one of the largest and most respected firms in the city. Another was a former student of great ability and charm who had left one of the other large elite firms to form his own small, successful firm. The third, if I recall correctly, practiced with one of the federal agencies. Our purpose was to reinforce contacts with the city's practitioners and learn more concerning their views of contemporary law practice. I remember the two private practitioners more clearly because …

Thinking About The Business Of Practicing Law, Michael J. Kelly

Vanderbilt Law Review

The core of Schiltz's argument with which I most disagree is that large firms are all alike, or, to put it in its more modest, plausible, and compelling form, that big firms and big-firm lawyers are be- coming more alike. The claim of what academics call isomorphism-- in this case, that large-firm practices converge ultimately in similarity-- is his principal descriptive claim. It is also the primary rhetorical device that allows Schiltz to attack large law firms as if they were one, to transpose the caricature of the managing partner in his third marriage to all large law practices. Schiltz's …

Cross-Examining The Myth Of Lawyers' Misery, Kathleen E. Hull

Vanderbilt Law Review

This comment will address one important aspect of Professor Schiltz's broader argument, namely his contention that the legal profession is afflicted with widespread job dissatisfaction. More specifically, Schiltz makes the following assertions about lawyers' unhappiness with their professional lives: (1) dissatisfaction is high; (2) dissatisfaction is increasing; and (3) dissatisfaction is highest among lawyers in private practice in large firms.' Using data from a recent survey of Chicago attorneys as well as other studies of lawyers' job satisfaction, including those cited by Schiltz, I will address each of these points in turn.

The Pursuit Of Happiness, Michael Traynor

Vanderbilt Law Review

Ills that beset our profession are addressed by Professor Patrick Schiltz in the alert he sounds in his lead article, On Being a Happy, Healthy, and Ethical Member of an Unhappy, Unhealthy, and Unethical Profession,' and his earlier article, Legal Ethics in Decline: The Elite Law Firm, the Elite Law School, and the Moral Foundation of the Novice Attorney. His articles call for attention and introspection by law students and others in the profession.

The editors invited me to comment because of the transitions I have experienced since graduating from law school in 1960. I agreed, not realizing the extent …