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A No-Fault Remedy For Legal Malpractice?, Melissa D. Mortazavi Dec 2014

A No-Fault Remedy For Legal Malpractice?, Melissa D. Mortazavi

Melissa Mortazavi

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Blind Spot: The Inadequacy Of Neutral Partisanship, Melissa D. Mortazavi Dec 2014

Blind Spot: The Inadequacy Of Neutral Partisanship, Melissa D. Mortazavi

Melissa Mortazavi

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The Career Path, Education, And Activities Of Academic Law Library Directors Revisited Twenty-Five Years Later, Michael J. Slinger, Sarah C. Slinger Dec 2014

The Career Path, Education, And Activities Of Academic Law Library Directors Revisited Twenty-Five Years Later, Michael J. Slinger, Sarah C. Slinger

Michael J. Slinger

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New Perspectives On European Women’S Legal History, Sara L. Kimble, Marion Rowekamp Dec 2014

New Perspectives On European Women’S Legal History, Sara L. Kimble, Marion Rowekamp

Sara L Kimble

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Transnational Legal Practice [2014], Laurel S. Terry, Carole Silver Dec 2014

Transnational Legal Practice [2014], Laurel S. Terry, Carole Silver

Laurel S. Terry

This article focuses on Transnational Legal Practice (TLP) activities that took place in 2014, along with 2013 activities that were not addressed in the previous year’s TLP article. In the authors’ view, meeting points and connective relationships are where the action is in TLP. This article highlights some of the meeting points and relationships that affect border-crossing for a variety of actors involved in TLP policy-making and practice. It refers to “TLP-Nets,” using the term “Nets” to suggest the notion of a network. Networks are “boundary-spanning and boundary-creating structures that affect the roles of organizational actors, including business corporations, voluntary …

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Lawyers, Regulation Of, Laurel S. Terry Dec 2014

Lawyers, Regulation Of, Laurel S. Terry

Laurel S. Terry

This article was written for the second edition of the International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences. It begins with a “Definitions” section that notes several reasons why it can be difficult to discuss the topic of the “regulation of lawyers.” First, there is no agreed-upon definition of the term “lawyer.” In jurisdictions that have a unified legal profession, the meaning of the term may be clear, but in jurisdictions that do not have a unified legal profession (e.g. solicitors and barristers in England or jurisdictions that do not permit in-house counsel to be licensed “lawyers”), one must specify …

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Globalization And Regulation, Laurel S. Terry Dec 2014

Globalization And Regulation, Laurel S. Terry

Laurel S. Terry

This chapter is part of a 20-chapter book that features essays by subject-matter experts and advances and sharpens the dialogue within the bar about accelerating disruption of the legal services marketplace. It identifies forces that are creating pressure for regulatory change across the United States, summarizes regulatory reforms that have taken place elsewhere in the world, and highlights issues that U.S. lawyer regulators must confront soon in response to a rapidly evolving legal industry. It concludes by offering predictions about the future course of lawyer regulation in the United States. While it is impossible to know exactly which regulatory changes …

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Open Letter: A Future For Legal Education, Paulo Barrozo Dec 2014

Open Letter: A Future For Legal Education, Paulo Barrozo

Paulo Barrozo

A deepening malady marks the present and threatens the future of legal education: not enough of it can be properly described as education, much of it is mere training, and the remainder is neither. The immediate cause of the malady of legal education is the prevailing structural bias of law schools toward three symbiotic attitudes, which I label practicism, minimalism, and parochialism. This open letter explains the nature and effects of practicism, minimalism, and parochialism before outlining four proposals for the future of legal education.

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"E-Mail Netiquette For Lawyers" In Pathway To The Profession: From Law School To Lawyer, Gerald Lebovits Dec 2014

"E-Mail Netiquette For Lawyers" In Pathway To The Profession: From Law School To Lawyer, Gerald Lebovits

Hon. Gerald Lebovits

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