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BOB DYLAN’S LAWYERS, A DARK DAY IN LUZERNE COUNTY, AND LEARNING TO TAKE LEGAL ETHICS SERIOUSLY
No full textThis article examines the life of Bob Dylan and how his views can be used to improve legal ethics. Bob Dylan\u27s views are applied to the legal ethics issues faced by the juvenile justice system in Pennsylvania and the Pennsylvania’s Interbranch Commission on Juvenile Justice\u27s call to get serious about legal ethics. If we are, however, to get serious about legal ethics, then we will first have to see if we can “make any sense of it,” “pull it apart,” and see if any of it can fit back together in a meaningful way, in other words, do the kind of stuff to legal ethics that Dylan has been doing to the parts of life that matter for almost half a century
Committee on Climate Change, Sustainable Development, and Ecosystems: 2012 Annual Report
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Shelby County, Alabama v. Holder: Must Congress Update the Voting Rights Act’s Coverage Formula for Preclearance?
No full textAs with other questions of constitutional law, the key to Shelby County is, “who decides?” Congress has concluded that preclearance remains necessary and that the coverage formula based on data from 1964-1972 remains an appropriate way of distinguishing between the areas that must undergo preclearance and those for which preclearance is unnecessary. Nobody contends that Congress’s coverage formula is perfect; it undoubtedly is both overinclusive and underinclusive in identifying the areas that are most prone to voting discrimination
The Sustainable Relationship: What the United States and the United Kingdom Can Teach Each Other About Climate Change and Sustainable Development at the National Level
No full textKeeping It Real: Using Facebook Posts To Teach Professionalism and Professional Responsibility
No full textThis Article examines how Facebook posts can be used to teach professionalism and professional responsibility in law schools. By providing graphic Facebook examples, it demonstrates and discusses the need to include instruction on professionalism and professional responsibility as the concepts relate to social networking. The Article suggests that today’s Generation Y law students develop and define their professionalism ideals and understand their professional responsibility, in part, in conjunction with the development of their online personas and their use of Facebook. It provides an in-depth analysis of four Facebook posts made by lawyers, clients, judges, and law students. It proposes that the application of the rules of the Bar may not be fully appreciated by legal professionals when they act as on-line storytellers and it makes suggestions on how to more explicitly teach that the rules have twenty-four/seven applicability. The Article takes a comprehensive look at how teaching with Facebook posts helps modernize legal education; it proposes a methodology for incorporating Facebook posts to teach professionalism and professional responsibility; and it concludes by summarizing the advantages and the disadvantages of doing so
Municipalities In Peril: The ABI Guide to Chapter 9, Second Edition Written by: H. Slayton Dabney Jr., Patrick Darby, Daniel G. Egan, Marc A. Levinson, George B. South III and Emily J. Tidmore (ABI, 2012)
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Tips for Lawyers Writing in a Time Crunch
No full textThis article provides writing tips for practitioners working under time pressure. It suggests ways to adapt a lawyer\u27s typical writing schedule to meet a short turnaround time. Using the analogy of a Top Chef Quickfire challenge, the article reconceives the panic that tight writing deadlines inflict as a tool for honing efficiency