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The Professionalization Of Law Firm In-House Counsel, Elizabeth Chambliss
The Professionalization Of Law Firm In-House Counsel, Elizabeth Chambliss
Faculty Publications
This Article examines the structural evolution of the "firm counsel" position from a volunteer, part-time position filled by an existing partner to a specialized, often full-time position increasingly filled by career in-house counsel. Based on focus groups and interviews with firm counsel, as well as participant observation at meetings and conferences aimed at firm counsel, I examine how the professionalization of the firm counsel position affects: (1) the definition of the firm as the client; (2) the authority of firm counsel with partners; and (3) firm counsels' professional commitments and attitudes about ethical rules. I find that, from a regulatory …
Building A Better Lawyer Discipline System: The Queensland Experience, Leslie Levin
Building A Better Lawyer Discipline System: The Queensland Experience, Leslie Levin
Leslie C. Levin
In many jurisdictions, lawyer-run discipline systems are inefficient, overly lenient and insufficiently responsive to consumer's concerns. Queensland's Legal Profession Act 2004 (Qld) breaks away from that model by moving lawyer discipline out of lawyers' professional associations and into an independent agency. It articulates a decidedly consumer-oriented approach to lawyer discipline and gives Queensland's new Legal Services Commissioner the power to investigate and prosecute all discipline complaints. This article looks at Queensland's recent reforms, and considers how well the new system is meeting its twin goals of consumer protection and traditional lawyer discipline. Using interviews and other data, the article identifies …
Services As Objects Of International Trade: Bartering The Legal Profession, Louise L. Hill
Services As Objects Of International Trade: Bartering The Legal Profession, Louise L. Hill
Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law
The General Agreement on Trade in Service calls for members of the World Trade Organization (WTO) to further liberalize and expand opportunities for international trade in services. With legal services included in this mandate, requests for specific commitments and offers have been made by WTO Member States. While services as components of international trade is new to many of the WTO Member States, free movement of services has been addressed by the European Union (EU) since the inception of the European Economic Community. Thus EU directives, declarations, codes and case law serve as valuable resources to WTO Member States as …
Internationalizing U.S. Legal Education: A Report On The Education Of Transnational Lawyers, Carole Silver
Internationalizing U.S. Legal Education: A Report On The Education Of Transnational Lawyers, Carole Silver
Articles by Maurer Faculty
This article analyses the role of U.S. law schools in educating foreign lawyers and the increasingly competitive global market for graduate legal education. U.S. law schools have been at the forefront of this competition, but little has been reported about their graduate programs. This article presents original research on the programs and their students, drawn from interviews with directors of graduate programs at 35 U.S. law schools, information available on law school web sites about the programs, and interviews with graduates of U.S. graduate programs. Finally, the article considers the responses of U.S. law schools to new competition from foreign …
How The Plaintiffs’ Bar Bars Plaintiffs, Richard L. Abel
How The Plaintiffs’ Bar Bars Plaintiffs, Richard L. Abel
NYLS Law Review
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How Social Hierarchies Within The Personal Injury Bar Affect Case Screening Decisions, Mary Nell Trautner
How Social Hierarchies Within The Personal Injury Bar Affect Case Screening Decisions, Mary Nell Trautner
NYLS Law Review
No abstract provided.
How The Spider Catches The Fly: Referral Networks In The Plaintiffs’ Personal Injury Bar, Sara Parikh
How The Spider Catches The Fly: Referral Networks In The Plaintiffs’ Personal Injury Bar, Sara Parikh
NYLS Law Review
No abstract provided.
Roman Catholic Lawyers In The United States Of America, Thomas L. Shaffer
Roman Catholic Lawyers In The United States Of America, Thomas L. Shaffer
Journal Articles
My agenda here is Roman Catholics in the American legal profession, from George Higgins's Jerry Kennedy to Judge Samuel Alito's joining the four other Catholics to make a majority on the federal Supreme Court. (I thought, as I said this in Washington, just before the Senate confirmation hearings in January 2006, that some in attendance may not have thought about this, and may have wanted to leap to their feet and phone their senators.)
Begin with ethnographic narrowing: When I talk about Catholic lawyers in the U.S., I mean to talk about descendants of the late immigrants—that is, people whose …