Lawyer Nation

Author : Ray Brescia
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2024-02
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781479823680

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Lawyer Nation by Ray Brescia Pdf

Explores the critical role that American lawyers have played since the nation’s founding and what the future holds for the profession The American legal profession faces significant challenges: the changing nature of work in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic; calls for greater racial and gender justice; threats to democracy; the inaccessibility of legal services for the majority of Americans; the risk of obsolescence owing to the emergence of new technologies; and the disaffection many lawyers feel toward their work. Ambitious in its scope yet straightforward in its approach, Lawyer Nation seeks to address these crises by offering a path forward for the legal profession. Ray Brescia provides concrete ideas for transforming law into a field whose services are accessible, egalitarian, and viable in the long term. Further, he addresses how the profession can improve so that the health of its practitioners is not compromised in the process. If the legal profession does not respond to its crises in an effective way, he argues, the dysfunction and unfairness plaguing the legal world will deepen. This is an unprecedented opportunity for the world of law to reimagine its future in way that honors its highest ideals: preserving the rule of law, protecting individual liberty, and addressing social inequality in all of its forms.

Author : Brian A. Crane,Martin W. Mason,Robert Mainville
Publisher : Markham, Ont. : LexisNexis Butterworths
Page : 810 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105063838713

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First Nations Governance Law by Brian A. Crane,Martin W. Mason,Robert Mainville Pdf

Author : Mary Ann Glendon
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Law
ISBN : 0674601386

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A Nation Under Lawyers by Mary Ann Glendon Pdf

Mary Ann Glendon's A Nation Under Lawyers is a guided tour through the maze of the late-twentieth-century legal world. Glendon depicts the legal profession as a system in turbulence, where a variety of beliefs and ideals are vying for dominance.

Author : George Gingo
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 81 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2008-06-24
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781435720282

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ATTACK on the COMMANDMENTS and CONSTITUTION A Country Lawyer's Opinion by George Gingo Pdf

Lawyer George Gingo shows how the courts, legislature and society make changes to the meaning of the Commandments and the Constitution to allow and encourage unprincipled conduct from abortion to gay marriage.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Courts-martial and courts of inquiry
ISBN : PSU:000048273183

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The Army Lawyer by Anonim Pdf

Author : F. Lyman Windolph
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2016-11-11
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781512808834

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The Country Lawyer by F. Lyman Windolph Pdf

These finely tempered reflections of a small city lawyer restate, in a graceful and informal manner, the true meaning of law and government to ordinary men. F. Lyman Windolph, for twenty-five years a prominent attorney in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, has handled almost every kind of legal case in his career, and through his close association with his clients he has gained an understanding of their lives and problems which, coupled with his wide legal knowledge, and alert sense of the social questions of the present, gives his essays a disarming and reassuring tone. Lawyers especially will enjoy his discussion of his experience with various cases and the more general topics of the value of the jury system, the difference between city and country trials, the ethics of defending guilty clients. But all will find the chapters on the meaning of democracy and liberalism and the indirect picture which the book gives of the day-by-day life in a small American community richly rewarding. In the last instance, two final essays—one on the Pennsylvania Dutch religious sects and "A Letter to My Father"—are particularly delightful. Several of the chapters have previously been published in the Atlantic Monthly and other magazines.

Author : Emer de Vattel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 668 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1856
Category : International law
ISBN : HARVARD:32044103162251

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The Law of Nations by Emer de Vattel Pdf

Author : Gerry Spence
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1997-10-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0312169140

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The Making of a Country Lawyer by Gerry Spence Pdf

The Making of a Country Lawyer is the firsthand account of a beloved American attorney, a modern-day folk hero, a man who has devoted his life's work to the downtrodden and damned. It is the story of a wayward son who, at the age of twenty, suffered an immense and tragic loss. It is this single dark moment in Spence's life that transformed him, preparing him to be a trial lawyer, eventually handling such landmark cases as the defence of Randy Weaver and the vindication of Karen Silkwood. This is the stirring memoir of a man who has captured the American imagination at a time when our belief in our values and in ourselves has been shaken to the core, told as only Gerry Spence can.

Author : Frank J. Kelley,Jack Lessenberry
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2015-09-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780814341339

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The People's Lawyer by Frank J. Kelley,Jack Lessenberry Pdf

After several years as a small-town lawyer in Alpena, Frank J. Kelley was unexpectedly appointed Michigan’s attorney general at the end of 1961. He never suspected that he would continue to serve until 1999, a national record. During that time, he worked with everyone from John and Bobby Kennedy to Bill Clinton and jump-started the careers of dozens of politicians and public figures, including U.S. Senator Carl Levin and Governors James Blanchard and Jennifer Granholm. In The People’s Lawyer: The Life and Times of Frank J. Kelley, the Nation’s Longest-Serving Attorney General, Kelley and co-author Jack Lessenberry reflect on the personal and professional journey of the so-called godfather of the Michigan Democratic Party during his incredible life and thirty-seven years in office. The People’s Lawyer chronicles Kelley’s early life as the son of second-generation Irish immigrants, whose father, Frank E. Kelley, started out as a Detroit saloon keeper and became a respected Democratic Party leader. Kelley tells of becoming the first of his family to go to college and law school, his early days as a lawyer in northern Michigan, and how he transformed the office of attorney general as an active crusader for the people. Among other accomplishments, Kelley describes establishing the first Office of Consumer Protection in the country, taking on Michigan’s public utility companies, helping to end racially restrictive real estate practices, and helping to initiate the multibillion-dollar Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement in 1998. Kelley frames his work against a backdrop of the social and political upheaval of his times, including the 1967 Detroit riots, the disappearance of Jimmy Hoffa, and the assassinations of John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, and Martin Luther King, Jr. All those interested in American history and legal history will enjoy this highly readable, entertaining account of Kelley’s life of public service.

Author : Stefan Huygebaert,Angela Condello,Sarah Marusek,Mark Antaki
Publisher : Springer
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2018-03-22
Category : Law
ISBN : 9783319754970

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Sensing the Nation's Law by Stefan Huygebaert,Angela Condello,Sarah Marusek,Mark Antaki Pdf

This book examines how the nation – and its (fundamental) law – are ‘sensed’ by way of various aesthetic forms from the age of revolution up until our age of contested democratic legitimacy. Contemporary democratic legitimacy is tied, among other things, to consent, to representation, to the identity of ruler and ruled, and, of course, to legality and the legal forms through which democracy is structured. This book expands the ways in which we can understand and appreciate democratic legitimacy. If (democratic) communities are “imagined” this book suggests that their “rightfulness” must be “sensed” – analogously to the need for justice not only to be done, but to be seen to be done. This book brings together legal, historical and philosophical perspectives on the representation and iconography of the nation in the European, North American and Australian contexts from contributors in law, political science, history, art history and philosophy.

Author : Carl Henlein
Publisher : Piscataqua Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2021-07-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 195038182X

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Nation of Lawyers by Carl Henlein Pdf

In this book, author Carl Arthur Henlein brings over 50 years of experience as a Mass Torts lawyer to bear on the problems of our civil courts. He explains the central problems with the system and illustrates them by relating the facts of some of his most famous cases, leaving no doubt that we have become a nation of lawers, not laws.

Author : United States. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 740 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : Employment forecasting
ISBN : IND:30000089076727

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Occupational Outlook Handbook by United States. Bureau of Labor Statistics Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 582 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Commercial law
ISBN : IND:30000108172713

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The American Lawyer by Anonim Pdf

Author : David Ball,Artemis Malekpour,Courtney Rowley,Nicholas Rowley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1951962168

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Damages Evolving by David Ball,Artemis Malekpour,Courtney Rowley,Nicholas Rowley Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 604 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1906
Category : Commercial law
ISBN : UCAL:C3211157

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The American Lawyer by Anonim Pdf