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The Vanishing American Lawyer
Over 4,000 lawyers lost their positions at major American law firms in 2008 and 2009. In The Vanishing American Lawyer, Professor Thomas Morgan discusses the legal profession and the need for both law students and lawyers to adapt to the needs and expectations of clients in the future. The world needs people who understand institutions that create laws and how to access those institutions' works, but lawyers are no longer part of a profession that is uniquely qualified to advise on a broad range of distinctly legal questions. Clients will need advisors who are more specialized than many lawyers are today and who have more expertise in non-legal issues. Many of today's lawyers do not have a s...
Extraterritoriality and Collective Redress
An expert analysis of the relevant law and jurisprudence in mass litigation, this edited work examines the diverse and complex transnational considerations and issues of collective redress. With contributions from distinguished and authoritative commentators on this topic, the coverage is broad, thorough, and practically focused. The book offers new perspectives on the challenges of collective redress as it innovatively combines a comparative and cross border approach. Organized clearly into sections, it provides in-depth comment on these challenges from a national, European, and global perspective. With detailed analysis of the relevant law and jurisprudence in this area offering a signific...
Legal Ethics and Corporate Practice
Regan and Bauman's Legal Ethics and Corporate Practice is organized around the workflow of lawyers who represent corporations. This innovative casebook integrates professional responsibility issues with a discussion of a particular type of task that both inside and outside counsel perform on behalf of business corporations. It uses problems to illustrate how various types of work ; from advising a privately held company to conducting an internal investigation of a multinational corporation ; generate challenges that cut across ethical categories. Each chapter begins with a road map of the material that will follow, and most end with one or two detailed problems that require students to draw on that material.
Hillman on Lawyer Mobility
As lawyers move from one firm to another or from private practice into another sphere -& as firms restructure to meet increasing economic demands - numerous ethical, practical, & financial questions arise. Hillman on Lawyer Mobility is your definitive guide to this fast developing area of law. Hillman analyzes & clarifies all the urgent legal & ethical ramifications in such areas as: The downsizing of law firms Disputes over the existence of a partnership Restrictive covenants Disincentives to competition One-sided fee-sharing agreements Notice of withdrawal Section 42 elections for withdrawing partners Files as property of clients Retaining liens Enforcement of ethics standards through arbitration Collateral consequences of account settlement provisions Compensation for discharged firms Pre departure solicitation Profit allocation. He also discusses the American Law Institute's ongoing work on the Restatement of the Law Governing Lawyers & the Revised Uniform Partnership Act.
