Private Lawyers And The Public Interest

Author : Robert Granfield,Lynn Mather
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2009-11-04
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780199745173

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Private Lawyers and the Public Interest by Robert Granfield,Lynn Mather Pdf

This collection of original essays by leading and emerging scholars in the field examines the history, conditions, organization, and strategies of pro bono lawyering. Private Lawyers and the Public Interest: The Evolving Role of Pro Bono in the Legal Profession traces the rise and impact of the American Bar Association's campaign to hold lawyers accountable for a commitment to public service and to encourage public service within law schools. Combining empirical legal research with reflections by practitioners and theorists about the meaning and practice of pro bono legal work, this collection of essays interrogates the public service ideals that are inscribed within the legal profession and places these ideals within a broader social, economic, ideological, and normative context. Particular attention is paid to the factors that explain why lawyers engage in pro bono work and the ways in which their views of pro bono are mediated by the institutional context of their legal practice. The book also explores the concept of "public" in public service and compares pro bono as a means of delivering legal services with other mechanisms such as state funding. Collectively, these essays investigate the evolving role of pro bono in the legal profession and in law schools, the relationship between pro bono ideals and pro bono in practice, the way that pro bono is shaped by external forces beyond the individual practitioner, and the multi-faceted nature of legal professionalism as expressed through pro bono practice.

Author : Alan K. Chen,Scott Cummings
Publisher : Aspen Publishing
Page : 915 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2014-12-09
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781454818885

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Public Interest Lawyering by Alan K. Chen,Scott Cummings Pdf

Public Interest Lawyering is the first comprehensive analysis of public interest lawyering that is suitable as a law school elective text and/or advanced legal profession courses and seminars. Drawing upon a range of theoretical and empirical perspectives, this timely textbook examines the lives of public interest lawyers, the clients and causes they serve, the contexts within which they work, the strategies they deploy, and the challenges they face today. Features: The first comprehensive overview of the broad range of contemporary issues faced by public interest lawyers in any American law school text. Thorough discussion of important theoretical issues about the scope and definition of public interest lawyering. Addresses American public interest law from a historical perspective with focus on current issues. Expansive examination of the settings in which public interest practice occurs, including nonprofit organizations, government agencies, and private law firms. Presents the advantages and limits of different legal strategies in public interest practice, including lobbying, public education, community organizing, and community economic development. Addresses contemporary challenges of public interest law in context, including economics and financing, legal ethics, the role of legal education, and the globalization of public interest practice. Discusses critiques of public interest law, including a reflection about the role of lawyers in social movements that addresses contemporary critiques. Ethical obligations of public interest lawyers. Explores special issues related to lawyer-client relations in social change contexts. Extensive coverage of: Models of law reform organizations. Conservative cause lawyering. Government lawyers. The economics of social change lawyering. Global social change lawyering.

Author : Burton Allen Weisbrod,Joel F. Handler,Neil K. Komesar
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1978-01-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 0520033558

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Public Interest Law by Burton Allen Weisbrod,Joel F. Handler,Neil K. Komesar Pdf

Monographic compilation of essays on public interest, law activities in the USA - presents theoretical analysis of failure of government policy to enhance public interest law, firm behaviour and volume of business, presents case studies in interest group advocacy for environmental protection, housing, employment, sex discrimination, consumer protection, occupational safety and occupational health, etc., and includes jurisprudence. Graphs, references and statistical tables.

Author : Robert Granfield,Lynn Mather
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2009-11-04
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780190452629

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Private Lawyers and the Public Interest by Robert Granfield,Lynn Mather Pdf

This collection of original essays by leading and emerging scholars in the field examines the history, conditions, organization, and strategies of pro bono lawyering. Private Lawyers and the Public Interest: The Evolving Role of Pro Bono in the Legal Profession traces the rise and impact of the American Bar Association's campaign to hold lawyers accountable for a commitment to public service and to encourage public service within law schools. Combining empirical legal research with reflections by practitioners and theorists about the meaning and practice of pro bono legal work, this collection of essays interrogates the public service ideals that are inscribed within the legal profession and places these ideals within a broader social, economic, ideological, and normative context. Particular attention is paid to the factors that explain why lawyers engage in pro bono work and the ways in which their views of pro bono are mediated by the institutional context of their legal practice. The book also explores the concept of "public" in public service and compares pro bono as a means of delivering legal services with other mechanisms such as state funding. Collectively, these essays investigate the evolving role of pro bono in the legal profession and in law schools, the relationship between pro bono ideals and pro bono in practice, the way that pro bono is shaped by external forces beyond the individual practitioner, and the multi-faceted nature of legal professionalism as expressed through pro bono practice.

Author : Anneke Smit,Marcia Valiante
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2015-12-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780774829342

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Public Interest, Private Property by Anneke Smit,Marcia Valiante Pdf

When it comes to urban planning, to what extent and under what conditions should the community’s interest prevail over the rights of private property owners? Public Interest, Private Property addresses this question at a time when pollution, urban sprawl, and condo booms are forcing municipal governments to adopt prescriptive laws and regulations. Case studies focus on spheres in which public values and private property rights collide – expropriation law, natural resources regulation, green development, and water provision – laying the groundwork for more active debates on the issues currently shaping our cities.

Author : F. Raymond Marks,Kirk Leswing,Barbara A. Fortinsky,American Bar Foundation
Publisher : Chicago : American Bar Foundation
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Law
ISBN : STANFORD:36105044020274

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The Lawyer, the Public, and Professional Responsibility by F. Raymond Marks,Kirk Leswing,Barbara A. Fortinsky,American Bar Foundation Pdf

Author : Elizabeth Sanderson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2018-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0433498633

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Government Lawyering by Elizabeth Sanderson Pdf

Author : Karen OConnor,Lee Epstein
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1989-06-26
Category : Law
ISBN : UCAL:B4964904

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Public Interest Law Groups by Karen OConnor,Lee Epstein Pdf

Public Interest Law Groups focuses on a special segment of the profession, namely groups `that provide cost-free legal care to willing clients' including `legal aid and legal services groups, interest groups that litigate, and public-interest law firms.' . . . It ought to be an automatic purchase for law school libraries and it will fulfull needs for information about these organizations in large public and academic libraries. Wilson Library Bulletin In recent years, public interest law has shifted from an exclusive interest in the expansion of rights in such areas as consumer protection, environmental law, and discrimination to a parallel concern with seeking limits to freedoms and rights in both the public and private sector. In addition, public interest law firms have introduced diversified litigation strategies that were uncommon even a decade ago. This volume is the only comprehensive work to reflect these recent changes in the complexion and strategies of public interest litigation. Following an introduction describing the major shifts that have occurred in public advocacy, the authors present over 300 profiles of firms, groups, and organizations that litigate in behalf of the public interest and/or use the courts to achieve policy ends. Organizations surveyed include groups that focus on the protection of special interests, rights, or resources and those that offer legal aid in diverse areas, as well as legal organizations such as the American Bar Association. Among the areas of concern are the advancement of science in the public interest, conservation, consumer interests, abortion, constitutional and civil rights, and the rights of groups ranging from the elderly, women, children, and the handicapped to American Indians and other minorities. Additional groups and significant public interest cases are listed at the end of the book. An important source of information for those wishing more data on a particular group or the scope of today's public interest litigation, this book is recommended for legal, public, and academic library reference collections.

Author : American Bar Association. House of Delegates,Center for Professional Responsibility (American Bar Association)
Publisher : American Bar Association
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Law
ISBN : 1590318730

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Model Rules of Professional Conduct by American Bar Association. House of Delegates,Center for Professional Responsibility (American Bar Association) Pdf

The Model Rules of Professional Conduct provides an up-to-date resource for information on legal ethics. Federal, state and local courts in all jurisdictions look to the Rules for guidance in solving lawyer malpractice cases, disciplinary actions, disqualification issues, sanctions questions and much more. In this volume, black-letter Rules of Professional Conduct are followed by numbered Comments that explain each Rule's purpose and provide suggestions for its practical application. The Rules will help you identify proper conduct in a variety of given situations, review those instances where discretionary action is possible, and define the nature of the relationship between you and your clients, colleagues and the courts.

Author : Luboš Tichý,Michael Potacs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Public interest
ISBN : 1780689705

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Public Interest in Law by Luboš Tichý,Michael Potacs Pdf

This book analyses in a comprehensive manner the phenomenon of 'public interest' in different areas of law, both public and private. The contributions focus on the definition of public interest and the distinction between public and private interest. Further, they define the relevant 'public' and investigate the weight of public interest in case of conflict with other considerations and the legal consequences of its breach.

Author : Robert V. Stover
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Education
ISBN : UOM:39015017682553

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Making it and Breaking it by Robert V. Stover Pdf

Author : Lee Epstein,Tracey E. George,Joseph F. Kobylka
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-19
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781317942771

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Public Interest Law by Lee Epstein,Tracey E. George,Joseph F. Kobylka Pdf

This volume convincingly lays to rest two held beliefs that have long impeded scholarly analysis of the role of courts and litigation in American politics: 1) that group resort to the courts is a rather recent phenomenon resulting from actions of the Warren Court and the Civil Rights Movement; and 2) that unique and distinctive features of the judiciary somehow place it beyond or outside analytic frameworks used to study and analyze the role, nature and functioning of other governing institutions such as the Congress and the presidency. The title of the volume ~ Public Interest Law Sourcebook -- accurately describes its central purpose and method as descriptive and informative.

Author : Robert A. Katzmann
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2010-12-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 0815720025

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The Law Firm and the Public Good by Robert A. Katzmann Pdf

What can law firms do to ensure justice for all? How can they serve the needs of those unable to pay? How can law firms improve the quality of life for their lawyers? At a time when government support for legal aid is limited and under fire, when recent U.S. presidents have urged increased volunteerism, when the American Bar Association's Law Firm Pro Bono Challenge is under way, and when some within the legal profession have called for mandatory pro bono work, this new book examines these important questions. The Law Firm and the Public Good blends academic scholarship with real world experience as it brings together lawyers who have wrestled with the pressures of everyday practice. Concerned about deepening the commitment of large law firms to the wider community, the authors seek to provide a blueprint for firms concerned with creating, developing, implementing, and evaluating pro bono programs. Moving beyond the ethical arguments which justify a law firm's commitment to community service, the authors argue that pro bono work is in the firm's self-interest. They show that a heightened concern with the public good can improve a lawyer's spirit, sharpen lawyering skills, and enhance the humanistic traditions of law practice. They conclude that professional responsibility and self-interest support the same conclusion: that the law firm and the public good are inextricably linked and that each can draw strength from the other in ways that nourish both. The contributors are William A. Bradford, Jr., Hogan & Hartson; Senior Circuit Judge Frank M. Coffin, U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit; Anthony F. Earley, Jr., Detroit Edison; Marc Galanter, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Donald W. Hoagland, Davis, Graham & Stubbs; William C. Kelly, Jr., Latham & Watkins; Esther F. Lardent, director of the ABA's Law Firm Pro Bono Project; Edwin L. Noel, Armstrong, Teasdale, Schlafly & Davis; Thomas Palay, University of Wisconsin-Madison; J

Author : Nan Aron
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2019-04-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429718571

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Liberty And Justice For All by Nan Aron Pdf

The intention of this book is to provide a better understanding of the mission of public interest lawyers and stimulate thought about ways to energize and build a movement that advances social justice. I could not have succeeded in this effort without the help and support of many individuals and institutions. I wish to express my appreciation for their assistance. I am very grateful to the Board of Directors of the Alliance for Justice for its wisdom in establishing the Alliance and for its continuing support for this book and other important projects. I profited from discussion with many public interest lawyers, activists and foundation officers. These individuals, who are listed in Appendix D, gave generously of their time. A few merit special attention. Charles Halpern and the staff at the Council for Public Interest Law, who wrote Balancing the Scales of Justice: Financing Public Interest Law in America, provided a wonderful model for me to follow.

Author : Burton Allen Weisbrod,Joel F. Handler,Neil K. Komesar
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 596 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1978-01-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 0520035682

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Public Interest Law by Burton Allen Weisbrod,Joel F. Handler,Neil K. Komesar Pdf

Monographic compilation of essays on public interest, law activities in the USA - presents theoretical analysis of failure of government policy to enhance public interest law, firm behaviour and volume of business, presents case studies in interest group advocacy for environmental protection, housing, employment, sex discrimination, consumer protection, occupational safety and occupational health, etc., and includes jurisprudence. Graphs, references and statistical tables.