Legal Profession Commons^™

Total Scholarly Impact: Law Professor Citations In Non-Law Journals, J. B. Ruhl, Michael P. Vandenbergh, Sarah E. Dunaway

Journal of Legal Education

No abstract provided.

Book Review Of Charged: The New Movement To Transform American Prosecution And End Mass Incarceration, Justin Murray

Journal of Legal Education

No abstract provided.

An Uncomfortable Truth: Indigenous Communities And Law In New England: Roger Williams University Law Review Symposium 10/22/2021, Roger Williams University School Of Law

School of Law Conferences, Lectures & Events

No abstract provided.

Vol. 61, No. 08 (October 18, 2021)

Indiana Law Annotated

No abstract provided.

Vol. 61, No. 07 (October 11, 2021)

Indiana Law Annotated

No abstract provided.

Negative Commentary—Negative Consequences: Legal Ethics, Social Media, And The Impact Of Explosive Commentary, Jan L. Jacobowitz Ms.

St. Mary's Journal on Legal Malpractice & Ethics

Connecting and sharing on social media has opened communication channels and provided instantaneous information to billions of people worldwide. Commentary on current events, cases, and negative online reviews may be posted in an instant, often without pause or thought about the potential repercussions. This global phenomenon may not only provide news of the day updates, humor, and support for those in need but also is replete with ethical landmines for the unwary lawyer. Lawyers commenting on current events, their cases, or responding to a client’s negative online review, have suffered damage to their careers. In some instances, they have even …

The Informed Consent Doctrine In Legal Malpractice Law, Vincent R. Johnson

St. Mary's Journal on Legal Malpractice & Ethics

The doctrine of informed consent is now deeply embedded into the law of legal ethics. In legal malpractice litigation, the doctrine holds that a lawyer has a duty to disclose to a client material information about the risks and alternatives associated with a course of action. A lawyer who fails to make such required disclosures and fails to obtain informed consent is negligent, regardless of whether the lawyer otherwise exercises care in representing a client. If such negligent nondisclosures cause damages, the lawyer can be held accountable for the client’s losses.

Shifting the focus of a legal malpractice action from …

Ethical Duty To Investigate Your Client?, Peter A. Joy

St. Mary's Journal on Legal Malpractice & Ethics

Lawyers have been implicated in corporate scandals and other client crimes or frauds all too often, and the complicity of some lawyers is troubling both to the public and to members of the legal profession. This is especially true when the crime involved is money laundering. As a response to attorney involvement in crimes or frauds, some legal commentators have called for changes to the ethics rules to require lawyers to investigate their clients and client transactions under some circumstances rather than remaining “consciously” or “willfully” blind to what may be illegal or fraudulent conduct. The commentators argue that such …

Sufficiently Judicial: The Need For A Universal Ethics Rule On Attorney Behavior In Legislative Impeachment Trials, Joshua E. Kastenberg

St. Mary's Journal on Legal Malpractice & Ethics

In assessing an ethics, rule-based prohibition against New Jersey governmental attorneys representing clients against the state for matters the state had previously assigned to them, the state supreme court noted: “In our representative form of government, it is essential that the conduct of public officials and employees shall hold the respect and confidence of the people.”

In the beginning of 2020, the United States Senate held an impeachment trial to determine whether former President Donald J. Trump had committed offenses forwarded by the House of Representatives. A U.S. Senate trial, much like state senate trials, is both judicial and political …

Professional Responsibility, Legal Malpractice, Cybersecurity, And Cyber-Insurance In The Covid-19 Era, Ethan S. Burger

St. Mary's Journal on Legal Malpractice & Ethics

In response to the COVID-19 outbreak, law firms conformed their activities to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), and state health authority guidelines by immediately reducing the size of gatherings, encouraging social distancing, and mandating the use of protective gear. These changes necessitated the expansion of law firm remote operations, made possible by the increased adoption of technological tools to coordinate workflow and administrative tasks, communicate with clients, and engage with judicial and governmental bodies.

Law firms’ increased use of these technological tools for carrying out legal and administrative activities has implications …

Model Rule 8.4(G) And The Profession’S Core Values Problem, Michael Ariens

St. Mary's Journal on Legal Malpractice & Ethics

Model Rule 8.4(g) declares it misconduct for a lawyer to “engage in conduct that the lawyer knows or reasonably should know is harassment or discrimination on the basis of race, sex, religion, national origin, ethnicity, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status or socioeconomic status in conduct related to the practice of law.” The American Bar Association (ABA) adopted the rule in 2016 in large part to effectuate the third of its four mission goals: Eliminate Bias and Enhance Diversity. The ABA adopted these goals in 2008, and they continue to serve as ABA’s statement of its mission.

A …

Nebraska Transcript (University Of Nebraska College Of Law), Fall 2021

Nebraska Transcript

Dean's Message

Lovell making a difference through civil rights advocacy 12

Russell Lovell, ’69, executive summary of forthcoming article 16

Beard named editor-in-chief of Woomera Manual 4

Tech Refactored Podcast hits milestones 6

Shoemaker earns Carnegie Fellowship to explore rural futures 8

Immigration Clinic students hold second annual naturalization clinic 19

Nebraska Law joins national police practices effort 20

Professor Eric Berger: Examining lethal injection 22

Grant expands access to attorneys in rural areas 24

Clinical Legal Education Association recognizes Dugger, Lengeling, O’Neill and Sonnenfeld 26

Murga Rios awarded Immigrant Justice Corps fellowship 28

Faculty Notes 30

Professor Kyle Langvardt: …

Getting Comfortable With Discomfort, Diversity & Repair, Luz E. Herrera

Faculty Scholarship

The topic of this year's conference, diversity, pluralism, and repair, gives us so much to talk about, that for me, it was hard to know where we were to begin. Dean Angela Onwuachi-Willig focused on judicial appointments and the importance of a diverse bench for the legal profession, and in our society. She also discussed becoming comfortable with discomfort and I wanted to pick up on that thread. When I think about discomfort, I think about my own journey in the legal profession.

Firing Employment At Will And Discharging Termination Claims From Employment Discrimination: A Cooperative Federalism Approach To Improve Employment Law, William R. Corbett

Cardozo Law Review

No abstract provided.

Inspectors General And The Law Of Oversight Independence, Andrew Brunsden

Articles & Chapters

President Trump's defiance of basic norms threatened the oversight institutions of American democracy. His brazen assault on the prosecutorial and investigative independence of federal law enforcement was well documented. Yet few have thoroughly scrutinized his violations of the oversight independence of internal institutions that monitor the government to promote integrity, transparency, and accountability. This Article examines the independence of Inspectors General (IGs), the internal watchdogs of the Executive Branch, and the President's attacks on the institution. President Trump breached long-standing independence norms when he fired or replaced IGs in retaliation for their legitimate exercise of oversight duties. Then, in some …

Pembatalan Akta Jual Beli Saham Dalam Pelaksanaan Akuisisi Pt Sls (Analisis Putusan Mahkamah Agung Nomor 3201 K/Pdt/2019), Hertaty Sianturi

Indonesian Notary

Penelitian ini membahas mengenai pembatalan akta jual beli saham dalam pelaksanaan akuisisi PT SLS. Dalam penelitian ini terdapat 3 (tiga) pokok permasalahan, yaitu: (i) mengenai keabsahan akta jual beli saham pada Putusan Nomor 3201 K/PDT/2019; (ii) mengenai bentuk kelalaian Notaris dalam pelaksanaan akuisisi PT SLS yang tidak sah; dan (iii) mengenai pertanggungjawaban Notaris terhadap akta jual beli saham dalam pelaksanaan akuisisi PT SLS yang tidak sah. Untuk menjawab permasalahan tersebut, digunakan metode penelitian hukum yuridis-normatif dengan tipologi penelitian eksplanatoris. Data yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah data sekunder dengan alat pengumpulan data yaitu studi pustaka. Hasil penelitian ini adalah: (i) …

Tanggung Jawab Pejabat Pembuat Akta Tanah (Ppat) Terhadap Penggelapan Pajak Bea Perolehan Hak Atas Tanah Dan Bangunan (Bphtb) Berdasarkan Putusan Mahkamah Agung No. 738/Pid.B/2018/Pn Smg, Viny Dwivi

Indonesian Notary

Penelitian ini membahas mengenai studi kasus Putusan Pengadilan Negeri Semarang Nomor 738/Pid.B/2018/PN Smg pada perbuatan Pejabat Pembuat Akta Tanah (PPAT) yang tidak menuntaskan pengurusan pembayaran pajak Bea Perolehan Hak atas Tanah dan Bangunan (BPHTB) yang telah dititipkan oleh klien. Hal ini berujung kepada tindak pidana penggelapan uang pajak yang dilakukan oleh PPAT sehingga klien mengalami kerugian. Adapun Permasalahan yang diangkat adalah mengenai kewenangan PPAT dalam penerimaan penitipan pembayaran pajak BPHTB dan tanggung jawab PPAT dalam penggelapan pajak BPHTB pada transaksi jual beli hak atas tanah dan bangunan. Metode penelitian yang digunakan yuridis normatif, dengan tipologi penelitian preskriptif. Hasil analisa adalah …

Tanggung Jawab Pejabat Pembuat Akta Tanah Terhadap Akta Jual Beli Yang Mengandung Kepalsuan Intelektual Dan Materiil (Studi Putusan Mahkamah Agung Nomor 1143/K/Pid/2019), Andri Setiawan

Indonesian Notary

Pejabat Pembuat Akta Tanah (PPAT) dalam praktiknya menjalankan jabatan berbagai bentuk kepalsuan yang mungkin melekat pada suatu akta autentik yaitu kepalsuan intelektual dan kepalsuan materiil. Permasalahan tersebut biasanya terjadi karena kurangnya kehati-hatian dalam proses pembuatan akta. Penelitian ini menganalisis tanggung jawab PPAT dalam kasus di Putusan Mahkamah Agung Nomor 1143 K/Pid/2019 dan mengidentifikasi peran PPAT dalam mencegah terjadinya kembali kasus pemalsuan seperti di Putusan tersebut. Metode penelitian ini yang digunakan adalah yuridis normatif. Hasil penelitian dalam hal para penghadap tidak dapat memenuhi persyaratan baik formil maupun materiil dalam pembuatan akta, maka PPAT berhak menolak membuatkan akta. PPAT juga harus lebih …

Penyelundupan Hukum Kepemilikan Tanah Pada Akta Perjanjian Pengikatan Jual Beli Yang Memuat Klausul Hak Membeli Kembali (Studi Kasus Putusan Peninjauan Kembali Nomor 539 Pk/Pdt/2020), Elvira .

Indonesian Notary

Pembuatan Akta Perjanjian Pengikatan Jual Beli (PPJB) pada praktiknya banyak menimbulkan permasalahan, salah satunya disebabkan oleh muatan Klausul Hak Membeli Kembali yang memberikan hak kepada Penjual untuk dapat membeli kembali objek tanah dan bangunan yang telah dijualnya kepada Pembeli. Sampai dengan saat ini tidak ada peraturan yang mengatur kebolehan atau larangan penggunaan hak tersebut, oleh karenanya banyak menimbulkan permasalahan, salah satunya adalah kasus pada Putusan Peninjauan Kembali Nomor 539 PK/Pdt/2020 di mana hakim justru menyatakan sah dan mengikat atas Akta PPJB yang memuat Klausul Hak Membeli Kembali. Berangkat dari hal tersebut maka permasalahan yang diangkat dalam penelitian ini adalah mengenai …

Tanggung Jawab Keperdataan Dan Sanksi Hukum Terhadap Perbuatan Notaris Yang Membuat Akta Perjanjian Pengikatan Jual Beli Dan Kuasa Menjual Tanpa Sepengetahuan Pemilik Tanah (Studi Putusan Pengadilan Negeri Surabaya Nomor 963/Pdt.G/2016/Pn.Sby), Azizah Amatullah Fitri

Indonesian Notary

Penelitian ini berfokus pada tanggung jawab dan sanksi hukum terhadap Notaris dengan studi pada putusan Pengadilan Negeri Surabaya Nomor 963/Pdt.G/2016/PN.Sby. Dalam putusan tersebut, notaris dinyatakan melakukan perbuatan melawan hukum, karena akta yang dibuat di hadapan notaris memuat keterangan palsu. Dalam hal ini, notaris telah melanggar kewajiban hukumnya sebagai seorang pejabat umum. Untuk itu, permasalahan yang diangkat adalah mengenai tanggung jawab keperdataaan notaris, yang telah membuat dan menerbitkan Akta Perjanjian Pengikatan Jual Beli dan Kuasa Menjual tanpa sepengetahuan dari pemilik tanah dan sanksi hukum terhadap notaris. Untuk menjawab permasalahan tersebut digunakan metode penelitian hukum yuridis normatif, dengan bahan hukum yang diperoleh …