Scrutiny Of The Legal Profession

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Attorney and client
ISBN : 0731001966

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Scrutiny of the Legal Profession by Anonim Pdf

On 12 November 1991, the then Attorney General, the Honourable PEJ Collins QC MP, gave the Commission a reference, which was amended on 29 January, 1992. (i) The Commission should inquire into the necessity for implementing alternative mechanisms to those presently existing to deal with complaints about the delivery of legal services to the public, (ii) The Commission should inquire into the means of making the offices of the Director of Public Prosecutions, the Legal Aid Commission, the Crown Solicitor, and other Government Legal Services more open and accountable. (iii) The Commission should consult fully with peak professional bodies of the legal profession in New South Wales, together with other relevant community organisations and other interested individuals and take into account any proposal of those bodies to reform and strengthen their mechanisms for investigating and adjudicating complaints.

Author : Sir Fred Phillips
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-08
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781135328313

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Ethics of the Legal Profession by Sir Fred Phillips Pdf

In countries outside the developed world, although writers have written commentaries on specific legal codes, very little attention has been given to legal writing which has focused specifically on the ethics of the legal profession. This book makes a special contribution in that regard providing, as it does, a comparative study of prevailing efforts to enhance ethical standards in a profession potentially in crisis and under much public scrutiny. Countries which have been examined include the UK, the US, Canada, South Africa, and countries in the Pacific, South East Asia and the Caribbean. Valuable guidance and learning are provided on such topical issues as wasted costs orders, conflicts of interests, legal and judicial codes, confidentiality, privilege and the ethics of the criminal process, where the jury system comes in for critical evaluation. This book will be a valuable text on the ethics and status of the profession. It will be of considerable interest to law students, practitioners and legal academics, Bar Associations, Attorneys-General and Directors of Public Prosecutions as well as members of the judiciary.

Author : Elaine Craig
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2018-02-16
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780773553019

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Putting Trials on Trial by Elaine Craig Pdf

Over the past few years, public attention focused on the Jian Ghomeshi trial, the failings of Judge Greg Lenehan in the Halifax taxi driver case, and the judicial disciplinary proceedings against former Justice Robin Camp have placed the sexual assault trial process under significant scrutiny. Less than one percent of the sexual assaults that occur each year in Canada result in legal sanction for those who commit these offences. Survivors often distrust and fear the criminal justice process, and as a result, over ninety percent of sexual assaults go unreported. Unfortunately, their fears are well founded. In this thorough evaluation of the legal culture and courtroom practices prevalent in sexual assault prosecutions, Elaine Craig provides an even-handed account of the ways in which the legal profession unnecessarily – and sometimes unlawfully – contributes to the trauma and re-victimization experienced by those who testify as sexual assault complainants. Gathering conclusive evidence from interviews with experienced lawyers across Canada, reported case law, lawyer memoirs, recent trial transcripts, and defence lawyers’ public statements and commercial advertisements, Putting Trials on Trial demonstrates that – despite prominent contestations – complainants are regularly subjected to abusive, humiliating, and discriminatory treatment when they turn to the law to respond to sexual violations. In pursuit of trial practices that are less harmful to sexual assault complainants as well as survivors of sexual violence more broadly, Putting Trials on Trial makes serious, substantiated, and necessary claims about the ethical and cultural failures of the Canadian legal profession.

Author : Deborah L. Rhode
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 614 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2003-09-25
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780195347166

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Ethics in Practice by Deborah L. Rhode Pdf

Lawyers' ethics have been condemned for centuries, but they received little scholarly scrutiny until the last few decades. Ethics in Practice brings together leading experts in the emerging field of legal ethics to discuss the central dilemmas of practicing law. This collection cuts across conventional disciplinary boundaries to address the roles, responsibilities, and regulation of contemporary lawyers. Contributors address common concerns from diverse perspectives, including philosophy, psychology, economics, political science, and organizational behavior. Topics include the nature of professions, the structure of practice, the constraints of an adversarial system, the attorney-client relationship, the practical value of moral theory, the role of race and gender, and the public service responsibilities of lawyers and law students. Unique in both its breadth and its depth, this book redefines debates that are of enduring significance for both the profession and the public.

Author : Stuart J. T. Dodds,David J. Parnell,Helene Russell,Peter Lane Secor,Rupert Hawke,Paige Keith,Manish Khandelwal
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2018-05
Category : Law
ISBN : 1783583347

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Emerging Approaches to Law Firm Profitability by Stuart J. T. Dodds,David J. Parnell,Helene Russell,Peter Lane Secor,Rupert Hawke,Paige Keith,Manish Khandelwal Pdf

Emerging Approaches to Law Firm Profitability is the ideal tool to assist with the implementation of innovative business practices, providing essential guidance for those seeking new means of maximizing their firm's capacit

Author : David Enrich
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2022-10-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1914484460

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Servants of the Damned by David Enrich Pdf

A long-overdue exposé of the astonishing yet shadowy power wielded by the world's largest law firms. Though not a household name, Jones Day is well known in the halls of power, and serves as a powerful encapsulation of the changes that have swept the legal profession in recent decades. Founded in the US in 1893, it has become one of the world's largest law firms, a global juggernaut with deep ties to corporate interests and conservative politics. A key player in the legal battles surrounding the Trump administration, Jones Day has also for decades represented Big Tobacco, defended opioid manufacturers, and worked tirelessly to minimise the sexual-abuse scandals of the Catholic Church. Like many of its peers, it has fought time and again for those who want nothing more than to act without constraint or scrutiny -- including the Russian oligarchs as they have sought to expand internationally. In this gripping and revealing new work of narrative nonfiction, the New York Times Business Investigations Editor and bestselling author David Enrich at last tells the story of 'Big Law' and the nearly unchecked influence these firms wield to shield the wealthy and powerful -- and bury their secrets.

Author : Donald Nicolson,Julian S. Webb
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780198764717

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Professional Legal Ethics by Donald Nicolson,Julian S. Webb Pdf

This study provides an in-depth analysis and critique of the ethics of English and Welsh lawyers. It argues that professional legal ethics has faile to deliver an approach which required lawyers to engage with the ethical issues raised by practice.

Author : American Bar Association. House of Delegates,Center for Professional Responsibility (American Bar Association)
Publisher : American Bar Association
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 41,9 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 : Deborah L. Rhode
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2003-04-10
Category : Law
ISBN : 0195347374

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In the Interests of Justice by Deborah L. Rhode Pdf

Two thousand years ago, Seneca described advocates not as seekers of truth but as accessories to injustice, "smothered by their prosperity." This unflattering assessment has only worsened over time. The vast majority of Americans now perceive lawyers as arrogant, unaffordable hired guns whose ethical practices rank just slightly above those of used car salesmen. In this penetrating new book, Deborah L. Rhode goes beyond the commonplace attacks on lawyers to provide the first systematic study of the structural problems confronting the legal profession. A past president of the Association of American Law Schools and senior counsel for the House Judiciary Committee during Clinton's impeachment proceedings, Rhode brings an insider's knowledge to the labyrinthine complexities of how the law works, or fails to work, for most Americans and often for lawyers themselves. She sheds much light on problems with the adversary system, the commercialization of practice, bar disciplinary processes, race and gender bias, and legal education. She argues convincingly that the bar's current self-regulation must be replaced by oversight structures that would put the public's interests above those of the profession. She insists that legal education become more flexible, by offering less expensive degree programs that would prepare paralegals to provide much needed low cost assistance. Most important, she calls for a return to ethical standards that put public service above economic self-interest. Elegantly written and touching on such high profile cases as the O.J. Simpson trial and the Starr investigation, In the Interests of Justice uncovers fundamental flaws in our legal system and proposes sweeping reforms.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1062 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Lawyers
ISBN : UCAL:B5088679

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The Journal of the Legal Profession by Anonim Pdf

Author : Debra S. Austin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2024-05-31
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781009484602

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The Legal Brain by Debra S. Austin Pdf

Practical advice for legal professionals to optimize cognitive fitness and protect their brain from the damaging effects of chronic stress.

Author : Ida E. Wendt
Publisher : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
Page : 642 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2012-10-12
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789004214491

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EU Competition Law and Liberal Professions: an Uneasy Relationship? by Ida E. Wendt Pdf

Drawing on the fundamental principles of EU competition law, this book comprehensively reassesses the authority and democratic legitimacy of self- and state regulation of liberal professions, and ultimately challenges the use of a diffuse public interest concept in professional regulation.

Author : New South Wales. Law Reform Commission
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Attorney and client
ISBN : STANFORD:36105063138429

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Complaints Against Lawyers by New South Wales. Law Reform Commission Pdf

Author : Jiaxiang Hu,Andrew J. Harding,Maartje de Visser
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789004349698

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Legal Education in Asia by Jiaxiang Hu,Andrew J. Harding,Maartje de Visser Pdf

Legal Education in Asia: From Imitation to Innovation is a curated collection of case studies that critically examine how conventional "transplanted" approaches to legal education are, or are on the cusp of being, redesigned across East Asia.

Author : Mona Harrington
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2013-09-11
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780307831569

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Women Lawyers by Mona Harrington Pdf

The very presence of women in the law—normal as it may seem to us today—signals revolutionary change in a social order that for centuries entrusted control over its rules to men. Mona Harrington examines both the problems women meet when they claim equal authority as rule makers, and the impact of new perspectives and issues that women bring with them into the profession. On the basis of more than one hundred interviews with women lawyers, judges, law school professors, and law students, and through the stories of their daily experiences, Harrington pinpoints and analyzes the key factors holding women back in a profession still dominated by males—among them the “men’s club” ambience, the focus on billable hours, sexual harassment and the inequality it perpetuates, lingering unequal division of labor at home, and hostile media images of women in positions of power. She shows us what life is like for women lawyers in practice today and how their dilemmas reflect the social issues of our time. She gives us the voices of women who have adapted to the cultural codes of corporate law and women who have broken them; women who have successfully balanced their professional and private lives and women who feel trapped by the combination of long hours at the office and full responsibility at home. She introduces us to women in new and alternative firms, on the faculties of small public law schools, in in-house legal departments, in prosecutors’ offices and courtrooms—women who are devising new rules and legal theories to bring about change. Women Lawyers is must reading for every woman in the midst of—or contemplating—a career in the law, and for the men who work with them.