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28 Oct 09

SSRN-The Ethical Obligations of Lawyers, Law Students and Law Professors Telling Stories on Web Logs by Anna Hemingway

This article examines how blogging has developed and considers the ethics of blogging and its impact on the legal profession. It examines blog entries from lawyers, law professors and law students and suggests that the rules of the Bar may be colliding with the manner of online storytelling occurring by legal professionals. The article takes an in-depth look at how blogging has impacted legal education and the relationship between faculty and students. It proposes ways in which incorporating blogging assignments into law school courses can assist students in developing ethical story-telling on web logs.

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Scott Cummings & Ann Southworth, Between Profit and Principle: The Private Public Interest Firm by Scott Cummings, Ann Southworth

This chapter considers the relationship between private practice and the public good through the lens of an under-examined organizational form: the "private public interest law firm." This form of practice attempts to marry profit and principle in organiz

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11 Aug 09

SSRN-Doing the Right Thing: An Empirical Study of Attorney Negotiation Ethics by Art Hinshaw, Jess Alberts

The code of ethical conduct for lawyers -- the American Bar Association’s Model Rules of Professional Conduct (the “Model Rules”) -- legitimizes a certain amount of dissembling and misdirection in the negotiation realm, only prohibiting legal negotiators

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SSRN-Cowboy Jurists

This paper identifies the origins of modern Canadian legal professionalism in the prairie west during the early twentieth century, arguing for the importance of human agency and emphasizing contingency where others assert trans-historical processes. Lawye

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08 Jul 08

Judge Lambastes Lawyer Filing With Limerick - Law Blog - WSJ

A 465-page racketeering lawsuit filed with Washington State federal judge Ronald Leighton inspired Leighton to gin up the following limerick. (Gavel bang: How Appealing) Plaintiff has a great deal to say, But it seems he skipped Rule 8(a). His Complaint

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