| Author | : Mary Ann Glendon |
| Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
| Total Pages | : 346 |
| Release | : 1996 |
| Genre | : Law |
| ISBN | : 9780674601383 |
Mary Ann Glendon's A Nation Under Lawyers is a guided tour through the maze of the late-twentieth-century legal world. Glendon depicts the legal profession as a system in turbulence, where a variety of beliefs and ideals are vying for dominance.
| Author | : Ross Guberman |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 426 |
| Release | : 2014-04 |
| Genre | : Law |
| ISBN | : 0199943850 |
In Point Made, Ross Guberman uses the work of great advocates as the basis of a valuable, step-by-step brief-writing and motion-writing strategy for practitioners. The author takes an empirical approach, drawing heavily on the writings of the nation's 50 most influential lawyers.
| Author | : Ralph Nader |
| Publisher | : Random House |
| Total Pages | : 461 |
| Release | : 1998-12-22 |
| Genre | : Law |
| ISBN | : 0375752587 |
The legal rights of Americans are threatened as never before. In No Contest, Ralph Nader and Wesley J. Smith reveal how power lawyers--Kenneth Starr perhaps the most notorious among them--misuse and manipulate the law at the expense of fairness and equity. Nader and Smith document how corporate lawyers File baseless lawsuits Use court secrecy to their unfair advantage Engage in billing fraud Nader and Smith sound the warning that this system-wide abuse is eroding our basic legal rights, and propose a positive, commonsense vision of what should be done to reverse the corporate-inspired corruption of civil justice. Timely, incisive, and highly readable, this is a book for all citizens who believe that prompt access to justice is the backbone of democracy, and a precious right to be reclaimed.
| Author | : Deborah L. Rhode |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
| Total Pages | : 245 |
| Release | : 2015 |
| Genre | : Law |
| ISBN | : 0190217227 |
A broad, comprehensive foray into the debate about the legal crisis, written by one of the most respected and authoritative scholars of the legal profession.
| Author | : Alfred R. Cowger |
| Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
| Total Pages | : 277 |
| Release | : 2020-10-06 |
| Genre | : Law |
| ISBN | : 1793622922 |
The Threats of Algorithms and A.I. to Civil Rights, Legal Remedies, and American Jurisprudence addresses the many threats to American jurisprudence caused by the growing use of algorithms and artificial intelligence (A.I.). Although algorithms prove valuable to society, that value may also lead to the destruction of the foundations of American jurisprudence by threatening constitutional rights of individuals, creating new liabilities for business managers and board members, disrupting commerce, interfering with long-standing legal remedies, and causing chaos in courtrooms trying to adjudge lawsuits. Alfred R. Cowger, Jr. explains these threats and provides potential solutions for both the general public and legal practitioners. Scholars of legal studies, media studies, and political science will find this book particularly useful.
| Author | : Talmage Boston |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 211 |
| Release | : 2012 |
| Genre | : Lawyers |
| ISBN | : 9781892542847 |
| Author | : Walter K. Olson |
| Publisher | : Macmillan |
| Total Pages | : 388 |
| Release | : 2004-06 |
| Genre | : Law |
| ISBN | : 9780312331191 |
A timely warning is given by Olson, who maintains that today's class-action lawyers are fast carving out a new and dangerous role as an unelected fourth branch of the government.
| Author | : David Luban |
| Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
| Total Pages | : 471 |
| Release | : 2018-06-05 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 069118755X |
The law, Holmes said, is no brooding omnipresence in the sky. "If that is true," writes David Luban, "it is because we encounter the legal system in the form of flesh-and-blood human beings: the police if we are unlucky, but for the (marginally) luckier majority, the lawyers." For practical purposes, the lawyers are the law. In this comprehensive study of legal ethics, Luban examines the conflict between common morality and the lawyer's "role morality" under the adversary system and how this conflict becomes a social and political problem for a community. Using real examples and drawing extensively on case law, he develops a systematic philosophical treatment of the problem of role morality in legal practice. He then applies the argument to the problem of confidentiality, outlines an affordable system of legal services for the poor, and provides an in-depth philosophical treatment of ethical problems in public interest law.
| Author | : William H. Simon |
| Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
| Total Pages | : 265 |
| Release | : 2000 |
| Genre | : Law |
| ISBN | : 9780674002753 |
William Simon, a legal theorist with experience in practice, here argues that the profession's standard approach to questions of legal ethics is incoherent and implausible, insisting the critical weakness is the style of judgment.
