The Lawyer Bubble

Author : Steven J Harper
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-08
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780465097630

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The Lawyer Bubble by Steven J Harper Pdf

A noble profession is facing its defining moment. From law schools to the prestigious firms that represent the pinnacle of a legal career, a crisis is unfolding. News headlines tell part of the story—the growing oversupply of new lawyers, widespread career dissatisfaction, and spectacular implosions of pre-eminent law firms. Yet eager hordes of bright young people continue to step over each other as they seek jobs with high rates of depression, life-consuming hours, and little assurance of financial stability. The Great Recession has only worsened these trends, but correction is possible and, now, imperative. In The Lawyer Bubble, Steven J. Harper reveals how a culture of short-term thinking has blinded some of the nation’s finest minds to the long-run implications of their actions. Law school deans have ceded independent judgment to flawed U.S. News & World Report rankings criteria in the quest to maximize immediate results. Senior partners in the nation’s large law firms have focused on current profits to enhance American Lawyer rankings and individual wealth at great cost to their institutions. Yet, wiser decisions—being honest about the legal job market, revisiting the financial incentives currently driving bad behavior, eliminating the billable hour model, and more—can take the profession to a better place. A devastating indictment of the greed, shortsightedness, and dishonesty that now permeate the legal profession, this insider account is essential reading for anyone who wants to know how things went so wrong and how the profession can right itself once again.

Author : Larry Neal
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2012-01-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780300153163

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"I Am Not Master of Events" by Larry Neal Pdf

Two of the greatest financial fiascos of all time took place at the same time and were instigated by two acquaintances: the Mississippi Bubble, on which John Law at first made a vast fortune and gained sway over French finances; and the South Sea Bubble, launched by Law and Thomas Pitt, Jr., Lord Londonderry, his main partner in England. This book tells the story of these two financial schemes from the letters and accounts of two leading personalities. Larry Neal, a distinguished economic historian, highlights the rationality of each person and also finds that the primitive exchanges of the day, though informal and completely unregulated, actually performed reasonably well.

Author : Richard Susskind
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2013-01-10
Category : Law
ISBN : 019966806X

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Tomorrow's Lawyers by Richard Susskind Pdf

From the bestselling author of The End of Lawyers?, this book predicts fundamental and irreversible changes in the legal world and offers essential practical advice for those who intend to build careers and businesses in law. A definitive guide to the future for aspiring lawyers, and for all who want to modernize today's legal and justice systems.

Author : Erik F. Gerding
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2013-12-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134642694

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Law, Bubbles, and Financial Regulation by Erik F. Gerding Pdf

Financial regulation can fail when it is needed the most. The dynamics of asset price bubbles weaken financial regulation just as financial markets begin to overheat and the risk of crisis spikes. At the same time, the failure of financial regulations adds further fuel to a bubble. This book examines the interaction of bubbles and financial regulation. It explores the ways in which bubbles lead to the failure of financial regulation by outlining five dynamics, which it collectively labels the "Regulatory Instability Hypothesis." . The book concludes by outlining approaches to make financial regulation more resilient to these dynamics that undermine law.

Author : Axel Bruns
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 87 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2019-08-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781509536467

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Are Filter Bubbles Real? by Axel Bruns Pdf

There has been much concern over the impact of partisan echo chambers and filter bubbles on public debate. Is this concern justified, or is it distracting us from more serious issues? Axel Bruns argues that the influence of echo chambers and filter bubbles has been severely overstated, and results from a broader moral panic about the role of online and social media in society. Our focus on these concepts, and the widespread tendency to blame platforms and their algorithms for political disruptions, obscure far more serious issues pertaining to the rise of populism and hyperpolarisation in democracies. Evaluating the evidence for and against echo chambers and filter bubbles, Bruns offers a persuasive argument for why we should shift our focus to more important problems. This timely book is essential reading for students and scholars, as well as anyone concerned about challenges to public debate and the democratic process.

Author : Roger Lowenstein
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1594200033

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Origins of the Crash by Roger Lowenstein Pdf

A financial journalist presents an analysis of the stock market and economics of the 1990s, examining the causes of the crisis and discussing the collapse of Enron, the dot-com bubble, and the accounting scandal and Andersen.

Author : Benjamin H. Barton
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780190205560

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Glass Half Full by Benjamin H. Barton Pdf

"A counterintuitive and optimistic reconsideration of the crisis in the American legal profession"--

Author : Adolphe Thiers
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2023-05-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783382326579

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The Mississippi Bubble: A Memoir of John Law by Adolphe Thiers Pdf

Reprint of the original, first published in 1859. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.

Author : Dan Lyons
Publisher : Hachette Books
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780316306072

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Disrupted by Dan Lyons Pdf

An instant New York Times bestseller, Dan Lyons' "hysterical" (Recode) memoir, hailed by the Los Angeles Times as "the best book about Silicon Valley," takes readers inside the maddening world of fad-chasing venture capitalists, sales bros, social climbers, and sociopaths at today's tech startups. For twenty-five years Dan Lyons was a magazine writer at the top of his profession--until one Friday morning when he received a phone call: Poof. His job no longer existed. "I think they just want to hire younger people," his boss at Newsweek told him. Fifty years old and with a wife and two young kids, Dan was, in a word, screwed. Then an idea hit. Dan had long reported on Silicon Valley and the tech explosion. Why not join it? HubSpot, a Boston start-up, was flush with $100 million in venture capital. They offered Dan a pile of stock options for the vague role of "marketing fellow." What could go wrong? HubSpotters were true believers: They were making the world a better place ... by selling email spam. The office vibe was frat house meets cult compound: The party began at four thirty on Friday and lasted well into the night; "shower pods" became hook-up dens; a push-up club met at noon in the lobby, while nearby, in the "content factory," Nerf gun fights raged. Groups went on "walking meetings," and Dan's absentee boss sent cryptic emails about employees who had "graduated" (read: been fired). In the middle of all this was Dan, exactly twice the age of the average HubSpot employee, and literally old enough to be the father of most of his co-workers, sitting at his desk on his bouncy-ball "chair."

Author : Lucy Endel Bassli
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Practice of law
ISBN : 164105588X

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The Simple Guide to Legal Innovation by Lucy Endel Bassli Pdf

"Educational needs of practicing lawyers are explored with a practical guide provided. Details the legal ecosystem and how its complex, varied and often overlapping parts can and should be handled by practicing attorneys, alternative legal service providers and "non-legal" professionals"--

Author : Brittany Starr A Whittington
Publisher : She Is Me, LLC.
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2019-02-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0578411148

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Layla the Lawyer by Brittany Starr A Whittington Pdf

Layla the Lawyer is a bold, beautiful and a brilliant student at Justice Elementary School who helps her friends by solving disputes on the school playground. During lunch time everyone realizes that two of Marcel's cookies are missing. When Layla applies her lawyer skills, she knows exactly what to do. She takes everyone to the seesaw on the playground because thats where Justice happens. With her power pearls, starred blazer, notebook, and feather pen given to her by her grandmother, she is ready to solve the dispute. Help Layla find all the facts that will reveal who took Marcel's cookies. While you are helping Layla solve the case, look for new words that are actually used in a courtroom; lawyer lingo. Lastly be sure to Learn all of Layla's lessons: Analyze factsArrive at conclusionsAccept consequences Appreciate diversityAspire to new heightsApply Lawyer Lingo

Author : Glenn H. Reynolds
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : College costs
ISBN : 1594036659

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The Higher Education Bubble by Glenn H. Reynolds Pdf

America is facing a higher education bubble. Like the housing bubble, it is the product of cheap credit coupled with popular expectations of ever-increasing returns on investment, and as with housing prices, the cheap credit has caused college tuitions to vastly outpace inflation and family incomes. Now this bubble is bursting. In this Broadside, Glenn H. Reynolds explains the causes and effects of this bubble and the steps colleges and universities must take to ensure their survival. Many graduates are unable to secure employment sufficient to pay off their loans, which are usually not dischargeable in bankruptcy. As students become less willing to incur debt for education, colleges and universities will have to adapt to a new world of cost pressures and declining public support.

Author : Adolphe Thiers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1859
Category : Darien (Panama and Colombia)
ISBN : HARVARD:32044020406005

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The Mississippi Bubble by Adolphe Thiers Pdf

Author : Deborah L. Rhode
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780190217228

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The Trouble with Lawyers by Deborah L. Rhode Pdf

By any measure, the law as a profession is in serious trouble. Americans' trust in lawyers is at a low, and many members of the profession wish they had chosen a different path. Law schools, with their endlessly rising tuitions, are churning out too many graduates for the jobs available. Yet despite the glut of lawyers, the United States ranks 67th (tied with Uganda) of 97 countries in access to justice and affordability of legal services. The upper echelons of the legal establishment remain heavily white and male. Most problematic of all, the professional organizations that could help remedy these concerns instead jealously protect their prerogatives, stifling necessary innovation and failing to hold practitioners accountable. Deborah Rhode's The Trouble with Lawyers is a comprehensive account of the challenges facing the American bar. She examines how the problems have affected (and originated within) law schools, firms, and governance institutions like bar associations; the impact on the justice system and access to lawyers for the poor; and the profession's underlying difficulties with diversity. She uncovers the structural problems, from the tyranny of law school rankings and billable hours to the lack of accountability and innovation built into legal governance-all of which do a disservice to lawyers, their clients, and the public. The Trouble with Lawyers is a clear call to fix a profession that has gone badly off the rails, and a source of innovative responses.

Author : Christopher P. Banks
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 46,5 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.