First Thing We Do Let S Deregulate All The Lawyers

Author : Clifford Winston,Robert W. Crandall,Vikram Maheshri
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 121 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2011-08-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780815721918

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First Thing We Do, Let's Deregulate All the Lawyers by Clifford Winston,Robert W. Crandall,Vikram Maheshri Pdf

Not many Americans think of the legal profession as a monopoly, but it is. Abraham Lincoln, who practiced law for nearly twenty-five years, would likely not have been allowed to practice today. Without a law degree from an American Bar Association–sanctioned institution, a would-be lawyer is allowed to practice law in only a few states. ABA regulations also prevent even licensed lawyers who work for firms that are not owned and managed by lawyers from providing legal services. At the same time, a slate of government policies has increased the demand for lawyers' services. Basic economics suggests that those entry barriers and restrictions combined with government-induced demand for lawyers will continue to drive the price of legal services even higher. Clifford Winston, Robert Crandall, and Vikram Maheshri argue that these increased costs cannot be economically justified. They create significant social costs, hamper innovation, misallocate the nation's labor resources, and create socially perverse incentives. In the end, attorneys support inefficient policies that preserve and enhance their own wealth, to the detriment of the general population. To fix this situation, the authors propose a novel solution: deregulation of the legal profession. Lowering the barriers to entry will force lawyers to compete more intensely with each other and to face competition from nonlawyers and firms that are not owned and managed by lawyers. The book provides a much-needed analysis of why legal costs are so high and how they can be reduced without sacrificing the quality of legal services.

Author : Brink Lindsey,Steven Michael Teles
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780190627768

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The Captured Economy by Brink Lindsey,Steven Michael Teles Pdf

For years, America has been plagued by slow economic growth and increasing inequality. Yet economists have long taught that there is a tradeoff between equity and efficiency-that is, between making a bigger pie and dividing it more fairly. That is why our current predicament is so puzzling: today, we are faced with both a stagnating economy and sky-high inequality. In The Captured Economy , Brink Lindsey and Steven M. Teles identify a common factor behind these twin ills: breakdowns in democratic governance that allow wealthy special interests to capture the policymaking process for their own benefit. They document the proliferation of regressive regulations that redistribute wealth and income up the economic scale while stifling entrepreneurship and innovation. When the state entrenches privilege by subverting market competition, the tradeoff between equity and efficiency no longer holds. Over the past four decades, new regulatory barriers have worked to shield the powerful from the rigors of competition, thereby inflating their incomes-sometimes to an extravagant degree. Lindsey and Teles detail four of the most important cases: subsidies for the financial sector's excessive risk taking, overprotection of copyrights and patents, favoritism toward incumbent businesses through occupational licensing schemes, and the NIMBY-led escalation of land use controls that drive up rents for everyone else. Freeing the economy from regressive regulatory capture will be difficult. Lindsey and Teles are realistic about the chances for reform, but they offer a set of promising strategies to improve democratic deliberation and open pathways for meaningful policy change. An original and counterintuitive interpretation of the forces driving inequality and stagnation, The Captured Economy will be necessary reading for anyone concerned about America's mounting economic problems and the social tensions they are sparking.

Author : Gillian Kereldena Hadfield
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780199916528

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Rules for a Flat World by Gillian Kereldena Hadfield Pdf

How can we promote economic progress in a staggeringly complex global system? In the bestselling book The World is Flat, Thomas Friedman argued that technology and globalization have leveled the playing field among workers and innovators worldwide. But why, ten years after he proposed thisthesis, are billions of people around the world still locked out of global prosperity and security?In Rules for a Flat World, law and economics professor Gillian Hadfield points to an outdated legal infrastructure as the cause of stagnating progress in the global economy. The world's biggest corporations are struggling to manage workers, and advance a consistent strategy, in dozens of countriesat once. Small businesses are being crushed by disruption a hemisphere away. Billions of people who constitute the bottom of the economic pyramid are still shut out of the technological, legal, and medical advancements that the other half of the world enjoys. Put simply, the law and legal methods onwhich we currently rely have failed to evolve along with technology. Hadfield argues not only that these systems are too slow, costly, and localized to support an increasingly complex global economy, but also that they fail to address looming challenges such as global warming, poverty, andoppression in developing countries.Instead of growing more agile and less expensive, our legal infrastructure is drowning in costs and complexity, all the while growing less capable of responding to the needs of businesses, governments, and ordinary people. Through a sweeping review of the emergence and evolution of law overthousands of years, Hadfield makes the case that our existing methods of producing law-via legislatures, courts, and bureaucracies-need supplementing. Markets, she argues, have the capacity to spur investment in regulation so that we can better manage smarter, faster, and more complicated economicsystems. Combining an impressive grasp of the empirical details of economic globalization with an ambitious re-envisioning of our global legal system, Rules for a Flat World is a crucial and influential intervention into the debates surrounding how best to manage the evolving global economy.

Author : Noel Semple
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2015-02-27
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781784711665

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Legal Services Regulation at the Crossroads by Noel Semple Pdf

Who should be allowed to provide legal services to others? What characteristics must these services possess? Through a comparative study of English-speaking jurisdictions, this book illuminates the policy choices involved in legal services regulation a

Author : Laura Snyder
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2016-10-11
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781498529808

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Democratizing Legal Services by Laura Snyder Pdf

We live in a “law-thick” world. For individuals and organizations in both the public and private sectors, navigating the large number of complex laws, rules, institutions, and procedures that pervade American life is virtually impossible without some assistance. Some argue that "there are too many lawyers." Others argue that the unmet need for legal services is so high that it constitutes a human rights crisis. This book exposes why it is easy to access legal services for some, while it is virtually impossible for others, and why some lawyers have successful careers, but others cannot. This book argues that the problems plaguing legal services in the US can be only be addressed by a radical overhaul of the rules that govern how legal services may be delivered, as well as radical changes to who exercises the power to make those rules. Through interviews with those with experience with alternative legal service providers, this book exposes the formidable obstacles that exist along the path to those changes, as well as the opportunities that await. More information can be found at: www.notjustforlawyers.com

Author : Christopher P. Banks
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2023-11-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000996371

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The American Legal Profession by Christopher P. Banks Pdf

This book is a tight and fresh analysis of the American legal profession and its significance to society and its citizens. The book’s primary objective is to expose, and correct, the principal misconceptions— myths— surrounding prelaw study, law school admission, law school, and the American legal profession itself. These issues are vitally important to prelaw advisors and instructors in light of the difficult problems caused by the Great Recessions of 2008 and 2020– 2021 and the disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Aimed equally at prelaw advisors and potential law students, this book can be used as a supplement in the interdisciplinary undergraduate law-related instructional market, including courses that cater to majors/minors in political science and criminal justice in particular. It can also be used in career counselling, internships, and the extensive paralegal program market. New to the Second Edition • Expanded coverage to include paralegal and legal assistant training. • New material on women and minority law students who are transforming law schools and the profession. • Explores challenges to the legal profession posed by economic recession, COVID-19, high tuition rates, exploding student loan debt, internet technological advances, and global competitive pressures, including legal outsourcing and DIY legal services. • Updated data and tables along with all underlying research.

Author : David Freeman Engstrom
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2023-01-31
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781009255332

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Legal Tech and the Future of Civil Justice by David Freeman Engstrom Pdf

New digital technologies, from AI-fired 'legal tech' tools to virtual proceedings, are transforming the legal system. But much of the debate surrounding legal tech has zoomed out to a nebulous future of 'robo-judges' and 'robo-lawyers.' This volume is an antidote. Zeroing in on the near- to medium-term, it provides a concrete, empirically minded synthesis of the impact of new digital technologies on litigation and access to justice. How far and fast can legal tech advance given regulatory, organizational, and technological constraints? How will new technologies affect lawyers and litigants, and how should procedural rules adapt? How can technology expand – or curtail – access to justice? And how must judicial administration change to promote healthy technological development and open courthouse doors for all? By engaging these essential questions, this volume helps to map the opportunities and the perils of a rapidly digitizing legal system – and provides grounded advice for a sensible path forward.

Author : Eyal Katvan,Carole Silver,Neta Ziv,Avrom Sherr
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-26
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781315449784

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Too Many Lawyers? by Eyal Katvan,Carole Silver,Neta Ziv,Avrom Sherr Pdf

The topic of "too many lawyers" is timely. The future make up and performance of the legal profession is in contest. What do we mean by "too many"? Is there a surplus of lawyers and what sort of lawyers are and will be needed? How best can we discern this? This book, is composed of scholarly articles presented at the Onati International Institute for the Sociology of Law (Spain), by some of the best researchers in the field, aims to answer these questions. This collection, with an introduction by Prof. Richard L. Abel, addresses methodological, normative and policy questions regarding the number of lawyers in particular countries and worldwide, while connecting this phenomenon to political, social, economic, historical, cultural and comparative contexts. This makes this book a source of interest to lawyers, law students, academic and policy makers as well as the discerning public. This book was previously published as a special issue of the International Journal of the Legal Profession.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Bar associations
ISBN : UFL:30031002032679

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West Virginia Law Review by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Business enterprises
ISBN : OSU:32437123367886

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UC Davis Business Law Journal by Anonim Pdf

Author : Herbert M. Kritzer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Lawyers
ISBN : STANFORD:36105062075937

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First Thing We Do, Let's Replace All the Lawyers by Herbert M. Kritzer Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1092 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Law
ISBN : STANFORD:36105061011354

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Barrister by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Housing
ISBN : UOM:39015084491912

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Housing Affairs Letter by Anonim Pdf

Author : Clifford Winston,David Burk,Jia Yan
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780815739128

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Trouble at the Bar by Clifford Winston,David Burk,Jia Yan Pdf

Deregulating the legal profession will benefit society by improving access to legal services and the efficacy of public policies. Lawyers dominate a judicial system that has come under fire for limiting access to its services to primarily the most affluent members of society. Lawyers also have a pervasive influence throughout other parts of government. This is the first book offering a critical comprehensive overview of the legal profession's role in failing to serve the majority of the public and in contributing to the formation of inefficient public policies that reduce public welfare. In Trouble at the Bar, the authors use an economic approach to provide empirical support for legal reformers who are concerned about their own profession. The authors highlight the adverse effects of the legal profession's self-regulation, which raises the cost of legal education, decreases the supply of lawyers, and limits the public's access to justice to the point where, in general, only certified lawyers can execute even simple contracts. At the same time, barriers to entry that limit competition create a closed environment that inhibits valid approaches to analyzing and solving legal problems that are at the heart of effective public policy. Deregulating the legal profession, the authors argue, would allow more people to provide a variety of legal services without jeopardizing their quality, reduce the cost of those services, spur competition and innovation in the private sector, and increase the quality of lawyers who pursue careers in the public sector. Legal practitioners would enjoy more fulfilling careers, and society in general and its most vulnerable members in particular would benefit greatly.

Author : Frederick Farrand
Publisher : University Press of America
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780761852865

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A New, Objective, Pro-Objectivity Normative Theory by Frederick Farrand Pdf

Mostly theory. Arguing for an objective theory -- More preliminary discussion of practical applications -- Structural form -- Mostly practical applications. Further issues and applications -- Other further issues and applications.