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Three Concepts Of Roles, W. Bradley Wendel 2011 University of San Diego

Three Concepts Of Roles, W. Bradley Wendel

San Diego Law Review

There is something distinctive about the law, legal reasoning, and the role of lawyers. That distinctiveness is captured by the idea that normative reasoning by citizens in communities is necessarily aimed at discovering what rights and obligations everyone ought to have, consistent with the interests of other citizens. It is implausible to believe that ordinary moral reasoning is well-suited to working out a scheme of public entitlements that is suited to regulating the interactions among citizens who disagree about what their entitlements ought to be. The law has authority to the extent it enables people to do better than they …


Anatomy Of An Aggregate Settlement: The Triumph Of Temptation Over Ethics, Lester Brickman 2011 Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law

Anatomy Of An Aggregate Settlement: The Triumph Of Temptation Over Ethics, Lester Brickman

Articles

In an aggregate settlement, usually of a mass tort claim, a defendant agrees to pay a specific dollar amount to be divided up by the lawyer among her multiple clients which may number in the hundreds and even thousands. Each client, therefore, is in competition with all of the lawyer’s other clients suing the same defendant for a share of the fixed sum. Rule 1.8(g) of the ABA Rules of Professional Conduct requires that each client give their informed consent to their allocation. To facilitate the settlement and the often quite substantial contingency fees to be earned, lawyers may mislead …


Dean Lauren Robel Named President-Elect Of American Association Of Law Schools, 2011 Maurer School of Law: Indiana University

Dean Lauren Robel Named President-Elect Of American Association Of Law Schools

Lauren Robel (2002 Acting; 2003-2011)

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Maurer Dean Chosen President-Elect Of National Law School Association, 2011 Maurer School of Law: Indiana University

Maurer Dean Chosen President-Elect Of National Law School Association

Lauren Robel (2002 Acting; 2003-2011)

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An Old-Fashioned View Of The Nature Of Law, James Boyd White 2011 University of Michigan Law School

An Old-Fashioned View Of The Nature Of Law, James Boyd White

Articles

The law is a not an abstract system or scheme of rules, as we often speak of it, but an inherently unstable structure of thought and expression. It is built upon a distinct set of dynamic and dialogic tensions, which include: tensions between ordinary language and legal language; between legal language and the specialized discourses of other fields; between language itself and the mute world that lies beneath it; between opposing lawyers; between conflicting but justifiable ways of giving meaning to the rules and principles of law; between substantive and procedural lines of thought; between law and justice; between the …


Judicial Opinion Writing: An Annotated Bibliography, Ruth C. Vance 2011 Valparaiso University School of Law

Judicial Opinion Writing: An Annotated Bibliography, Ruth C. Vance

Law Faculty Publications

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Clinical Professors' Professional Responsibility: Preparing Law Students To Embrace Pro Bono, Douglas L. Colbert 2011 University of Maryland School of Law

Clinical Professors' Professional Responsibility: Preparing Law Students To Embrace Pro Bono, Douglas L. Colbert

Faculty Scholarship

This article begins by examining the current crisis in the U.S. legal system where approximately three out of four low- and middle-income litigants are denied access to counsel's representation when faced with the loss of essential rights - -a home, child custody, liberty and deportation - - and where most lawyers decline to fulfill their ethical responsibility of pro bono service to those who cannot afford private counsel. The article traces the evolving ethical standards of a lawyer's professional responsibility that today views every attorney as a public citizen having a special responsibility to the quality of justice.

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The New Rules For Law Schools, Barbara S. Gontrum 2011 University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law Thurgood Marshall Law Library

The New Rules For Law Schools, Barbara S. Gontrum

Faculty Scholarship

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Modeling The American Lawyer Ethics System, James E. Moliterno 2011 Washington and Lee University School of Law

Modeling The American Lawyer Ethics System, James E. Moliterno

Scholarly Articles

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Seven Principles: Increasing Access To Law School Among Students Of Color, Catherine E. Smith 2011 Washington and Lee University School of Law

Seven Principles: Increasing Access To Law School Among Students Of Color, Catherine E. Smith

Scholarly Articles

In Fall 2010, I became one of the first tenured professors in the nation to hold a deanship dedicated exclusively to diversity in a school of law. As the Associate Dean of Institutional Diversity and Inclusiveness at the University of Denver's Sturm College of Law ("SCOL"), I am charged with strengthening access to the legal academy, particularly among, but not limited to, students and faculty of color. This Essay describes the evolution of my role and the seven principles that currently guide student pipeline and recruitment efforts at the SCOL. These principles help the SCOL focus those efforts, work strategically, …


The Most Ethical Of People, The Least Ethical Of People: Proposing Self-Determination Theory To Measure Professional Character Formation, Lawrence S. Krieger 2011 Florida State University College of Law

The Most Ethical Of People, The Least Ethical Of People: Proposing Self-Determination Theory To Measure Professional Character Formation, Lawrence S. Krieger

Scholarly Publications

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Volume 78 (2010-2011), 2011 University of Tennessee College of Law

Volume 78 (2010-2011)

Tennessee Law Review

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Big Law And Risk Management: Case Studies Of Litigation, Deals, And Diversity, Anthony V. Alfieri 2011 University of Miami School of Law

Big Law And Risk Management: Case Studies Of Litigation, Deals, And Diversity, Anthony V. Alfieri

Articles

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Winter 2011 Magazine, 2011 Maurer School of Law: Indiana University

Winter 2011 Magazine

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Careers In International Commercial Arbitration, Safina Lakhani 2011 American University Washington College of Law

Careers In International Commercial Arbitration, Safina Lakhani

Arbitration Brief

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Amendments To The Mexican Arbitration Statute, Francisco González de Cossío 2011 American University Washington College of Law

Amendments To The Mexican Arbitration Statute, Francisco González De Cossío

Arbitration Brief

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Introduction: Symposium On Lawyers’ Special Responsibilities As Public Citizens In A Rapidly Changing World , Susan D. Carle 2011 American University Washington College of Law

Introduction: Symposium On Lawyers’ Special Responsibilities As Public Citizens In A Rapidly Changing World , Susan D. Carle

American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law

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The Market For Public Interest Law Services, Scott Cummings 2011 American University Washington College of Law

The Market For Public Interest Law Services, Scott Cummings

American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law

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Legal Access And Attorney Advertising, Nora Freeman Engstrom 2011 American University Washington College of Law

Legal Access And Attorney Advertising, Nora Freeman Engstrom

American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law

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Trust And The Global Law Firm, Robert K. Vischer 2011 American University Washington College of Law

Trust And The Global Law Firm, Robert K. Vischer

American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law

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