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Volume 24, Issue 1 (Winter 2001)

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A Critique Of Burrow V. Arce, Charles Silver

William & Mary Environmental Law and Policy Review

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Megafirms, Randall S. Thomas, Stewart J. Schwab, Robert G. Hansen

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

This Article documents and explains the amazing growth of the largest firms in law, accounting, and investment banking. Scholars to date have used various supply-side theories to explain this growth, and have generally examined only one industry at a time. This Article emphasizes a demand-side explanation of firm growth and shows how the explanation is similar for firms in all "project" industries. Legal regulation also plays an important role in determining industry structure. Among the areas covered in this Article are the growth of Multidisciplinary Practice firms (MDPs). MDP growth can best be understood by looking more broadly at the …

An Empirical Study Of Associate Satisfaction, Law Firm Culture, And The Effects Of Billable Hour Requirements - Part One, Susan Saab Fortney

Faculty Scholarship

This article considers billing practices, the effects of hourly billing pressure, and firm culture as reflected in a survey of associates in Texas law firms. Part I of this article reports the empirical information from the survey. This information includes insight into the toll an increase in billable hour requirements has taken on legal practitioners and the consequent affect on the legal field. Part II discusses what the data means and how it might be used to improve the outlook for attracting and retaining good associates.

Megafirms, Randall Thomas, Stewart J. Schwab, Robert G. Hansen

Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications

This paper documents and explains the amazing growth of the largest firms in law, accounting, and investment banking. Scholars to date have used various supply-side theories to explain the growth, and have generally examined only one industry at a time. We give the first demand-side explanation of firm growth, and show how the explanation is similar for firms in all "project" industries. We show that law plays an important role in determining industry structure. Among the areas we cover are the growth of Multi-Disciplinary Practice firms. We argue that the issues surrounding MDPs can best be understood by looking more …

Why Lawyers Are Unhappy, Martin E.P. Seligman, Paul R. Verkuil, Terry H. Kang

Cardozo Law Review

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Fall 2001

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Volume 25, Issue 2 (Fall 2001)

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Nebraska Transcript (University Of Nebraska College Of Law), Volume 35, Number 2, Fall 2001

Nebraska Transcript

2 New Dean Steve Willborn Sees College’s Mission as ‘Changing Trajectory of Students’ Lives’

4 Former Dean Harvey Perlman Appointed UNL Chancellor

7 Breaking Ground

10 Kauffman Family Gift to Improve Student Writing

12 Celebration Dinner Honors Two Remarkable Professors

14 Graduation 2001

16 Honor Classes Return To Pay Tribute to Past, Offer Advice

for Future

18 It’s a Family Affair

20 Law College Faculty, Students Bring Skills Training to Balkans

22 Experimental Class Puts Legal Writing in Realistic Context

24 Alumni Council Awards to Honor Special Contributions to College

30 Humanitarian Intervention and International Law In the

New Millennium …

A Tribute To Harry Pratter, George P. Smith Ii

Harry Pratter (1976-1977 Acting)

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Courtroom Bias: Gender Discrimination Against Pregnant Litigators, Sandy Mastro

William & Mary Journal of Race, Gender, and Social Justice

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Multi-Disciplinary Professional Practices: A Consumer Welfare Perspective, Michael Trebilcock, Lila Csorgo

Dalhousie Law Journal

Multi-disciplinary professional practices (MDPs) involving lawyers, accountants and otherprofessionals, have been the subject of considerable industrystudyand controversy in Canada and abroad. In this article, the authors evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of MDPs strictly from a consumer welfare perspective. They argue that, although MDP critics' concerns surrounding such issues as solicitor-client privilege, independence, conflicts of interest, and unauthorized practice are valid, they are often overstated and are, in many cases, encountered even today by professionals outside the MDP context. The advantages to consumers of permitting the evolution of such practices would, in any event, significantly outweigh such disadvantages. The authors'analysis …

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

The Clark Memorandum

• The Doctrine of Religious Freedom (W. Cole Durham)
• Practicing Law with the Attributes of Jesus Christ (Elder Earl C. Tingey)
• Civic Virtue (Seth P. Waxman)
• Filling Scott Cameron's Shoes

Nonlegal Regulation Of The Legal Profession: Social Norms In Professional Communities, W. Bradley Wendel

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

What should be done about lawyers who persist in violating ethical norms that are not embodied in positive disciplinary rules? That question has been a recurrent theme in recent legal ethics scholarship. One response has been to propose, experiment, amend, tinker, draft, comment, and redraft, in an attempt to codify the standard of conduct observed to be flouted widely by the practicing bar. Bar associations and courts are seemingly engaged in a never-ending process of promulgating new codes of professional conduct or rules of procedure under which lawyers may be sanctioned for such conduct as bringing frivolous lawsuits, abusing the …

Lawyer Crimes: Beyond The Law?, Charles W. Wolfram

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

Preface, Rodney K. Smith

The Journal of Appellate Practice and Process

The Solicitor General of the United States is "the Appellate Lawyer's Lawyer." The Solicitor General is the leading appellate advocate before the Supreme Court. The Solicitor General participates in 75% of oral arguments in the Court and represents no one but the United States. This special section is a tribute to this valued position.

Toward A Community Of Professionalism, Elliot L. Bien

The Journal of Appellate Practice and Process

Professionalism amongst American litigators has declined. Many jurisdictions have adopted codes of conduct in order to restore professionalism. These attempts have done little to restore professionalism. Similar adversarial systems, like England's, are admired for their professionalism. What creates this value amongst barristers is a sense of community. A similar practice should be adopted in the United States in order to restore a sense of professionalism in litigation.

In The Shadow Of Daniel Webster: Arguing Appeals In The Twenty-First Century, Seth P. Waxman

The Journal of Appellate Practice and Process

The Solicitor General is often asked to give advice on oral advocacy. Seth P. Waxman has been reluctant to give such advice. Asking an advocate for advice about oral advocacy instead of a judge is like asking a fisherman for advice about catching fish if fish could speak. Waxman begins with a look at the life of acclaimed advocate, Daniel Webster, before giving his long reserved advice.

Gatekeeping Stress: The Science And Admissibility Of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, Edgar Garcia-Rill, Erica Beecher-Monas

University of Arkansas at Little Rock Law Review

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Introduction: The Impact Of Science On Legal Decisions—What Can Social Science Tell The Courts And Lawyers?, Theresa M. Beiner

University of Arkansas at Little Rock Law Review

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How Prospect Theory Can Improve Legal Counseling, John M.A. Dipippa

University of Arkansas at Little Rock Law Review

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Attorney Fact-Finding, Ethical Decision-Making And The Methodology Of Law, Robert Rubinson

All Faculty Scholarship

This Article explores the significance, challenges, and complexities of attorney fact-finding in ethical decision-making. Almost all discourse about legal ethics, from the pedagogical to the scholarly to the practical, takes facts for granted in order to focus on issues about ethical rules. The factual dimension of ethical decision-making, however, is critical to the decision-making process and can be subjected to rigorous and systematic study. Indeed, it is lawyers in a situation who engage in ethical decision-making, and such a situation entails the assimilation and interpretation of many sources of information. Such a process necessarily includes the motivations and ambivalence of …

When Lawyers Break The Law: How The District Of Columbia Court Of Appeals Disciplines Members Of The Bar Who Commit Crimes, Larry Cunningham

University of the District of Columbia Law Review

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Rethinking The Discharge Of Pre-Petition Attorney Fees In Chapter 7 Bankruptcy: A Debtor Oriented Perspective, James L. Neher

University of the District of Columbia Law Review

The courts are split over a provision of the Bankruptcy Code,' in which the majority courts hold that upon the filing of a Chapter 7 bankruptcy, 2 unpaid attorney fees, for pre-petition work in connection with preparing and filing bankruptcy, are discharged. In contrast, the minority view holds that attorney fees in connection with preparing and filing a bankruptcy are not dischargeable whether prepaid or not, as long as they are not excessive.4 The problem with the majority view is that indigent debtors may be deprived of access to legal counsel unless they can pay all or most of their …

History Of The Administration Of The American Law School Accreditation Process, James P. White

Journal of Legal Education

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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

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The Structure Of Legal Education In South Africa, John B. Kaburise

Journal of Legal Education

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The Dynamic Market For Law Faculty In The United States, Kent D. Syverund

Journal of Legal Education

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

Journal of Legal Education

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The Clintons' Legal Defense Fund: Income From Payment Of Legal Expenses By Another And Deductibility Of Such Expenses, John R. Dorocak

West Virginia Law Review

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