Private Lawyers And The Public Interest

Author : Robert Granfield
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195386078
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Private Lawyers and the Public Interest written by Robert Granfield and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2009 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of original essays by leading and emerging scholars in the field examines the history, conditions, organization, and strategies of pro bono lawyering. Private Lawyers and the Public Interest: The Evolving Role of Pro Bono in the Legal Profession traces the rise and impact of the American Bar Association's campaign to hold lawyers accountable for a commitment to public service and to encourage public service within law schools. Combining empirical legal research with reflections by practitioners and theorists about the meaning and practice of pro bono legal work, this collection of essays interrogates the public service ideals that are inscribed within the legal profession and places these ideals within a broader social, economic, ideological, and normative context. Particular attention is paid to the factors that explain why lawyers engage in pro bono work and the ways in which their views of pro bono are mediated by the institutional context of their legal practice. The book also explores the concept of "public" in public service and compares pro bono as a means of delivering legal services with other mechanisms such as state funding. Collectively, these essays investigate the evolving role of pro bono in the legal profession and in law schools, the relationship between pro bono ideals and pro bono in practice, the way that pro bono is shaped by external forces beyond the individual practitioner, and the multi-faceted nature of legal professionalism as expressed through pro bono practice.

Author : Alan K. Chen
Publisher : Aspen Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1454818883
Total Pages : 915 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Public Interest Lawyering written by Alan K. Chen and published by Aspen Publishing. This book was released on 2014-12-09 with total page 915 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Public Interest Lawyering is the first comprehensive analysis of public interest lawyering that is suitable as a law school elective text and/or advanced legal profession courses and seminars. Drawing upon a range of theoretical and empirical perspectives, this timely textbook examines the lives of public interest lawyers, the clients and causes they serve, the contexts within which they work, the strategies they deploy, and the challenges they face today. Features: The first comprehensive overview of the broad range of contemporary issues faced by public interest lawyers in any American law school text. Thorough discussion of important theoretical issues about the scope and definition of public interest lawyering. Addresses American public interest law from a historical perspective with focus on current issues. Expansive examination of the settings in which public interest practice occurs, including nonprofit organizations, government agencies, and private law firms. Presents the advantages and limits of different legal strategies in public interest practice, including lobbying, public education, community organizing, and community economic development. Addresses contemporary challenges of public interest law in context, including economics and financing, legal ethics, the role of legal education, and the globalization of public interest practice. Discusses critiques of public interest law, including a reflection about the role of lawyers in social movements that addresses contemporary critiques. Ethical obligations of public interest lawyers. Explores special issues related to lawyer-client relations in social change contexts. Extensive coverage of: Models of law reform organizations. Conservative cause lawyering. Government lawyers. The economics of social change lawyering. Global social change lawyering.

Author : American Bar Association. House of Delegates
Publisher : American Bar Association
ISBN 13 : 9781590318737
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Model Rules of Professional Conduct written by American Bar Association. House of Delegates and published by American Bar Association. This book was released on 2007 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Burton Allen Weisbrod
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520033559
Total Pages : 600 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Public Interest Law written by Burton Allen Weisbrod and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1978-01-01 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Monographic compilation of essays on public interest, law activities in the USA - presents theoretical analysis of failure of government policy to enhance public interest law, firm behaviour and volume of business, presents case studies in interest group advocacy for environmental protection, housing, employment, sex discrimination, consumer protection, occupational safety and occupational health, etc., and includes jurisprudence. Graphs, references and statistical tables.

Author : F. Raymond Marks
Publisher : Chicago : American Bar Foundation
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lawyer, the Public, and Professional Responsibility written by F. Raymond Marks and published by Chicago : American Bar Foundation. This book was released on 1972 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Robert V. Stover
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Making it and Breaking it written by Robert V. Stover and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Karen OConnor
Publisher : Greenwood
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Public Interest Law Groups written by Karen OConnor and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1989-06-26 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Public Interest Law Groups focuses on a special segment of the profession, namely groups `that provide cost-free legal care to willing clients' including `legal aid and legal services groups, interest groups that litigate, and public-interest law firms.' . . . It ought to be an automatic purchase for law school libraries and it will fulfull needs for information about these organizations in large public and academic libraries. Wilson Library Bulletin In recent years, public interest law has shifted from an exclusive interest in the expansion of rights in such areas as consumer protection, environmental law, and discrimination to a parallel concern with seeking limits to freedoms and rights in both the public and private sector. In addition, public interest law firms have introduced diversified litigation strategies that were uncommon even a decade ago. This volume is the only comprehensive work to reflect these recent changes in the complexion and strategies of public interest litigation. Following an introduction describing the major shifts that have occurred in public advocacy, the authors present over 300 profiles of firms, groups, and organizations that litigate in behalf of the public interest and/or use the courts to achieve policy ends. Organizations surveyed include groups that focus on the protection of special interests, rights, or resources and those that offer legal aid in diverse areas, as well as legal organizations such as the American Bar Association. Among the areas of concern are the advancement of science in the public interest, conservation, consumer interests, abortion, constitutional and civil rights, and the rights of groups ranging from the elderly, women, children, and the handicapped to American Indians and other minorities. Additional groups and significant public interest cases are listed at the end of the book. An important source of information for those wishing more data on a particular group or the scope of today's public interest litigation, this book is recommended for legal, public, and academic library reference collections.

Author : Nan Aron
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429718578
Total Pages : 157 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Liberty And Justice For All written by Nan Aron and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-04-02 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The intention of this book is to provide a better understanding of the mission of public interest lawyers and stimulate thought about ways to energize and build a movement that advances social justice. I could not have succeeded in this effort without the help and support of many individuals and institutions. I wish to express my appreciation for their assistance. I am very grateful to the Board of Directors of the Alliance for Justice for its wisdom in establishing the Alliance and for its continuing support for this book and other important projects. I profited from discussion with many public interest lawyers, activists and foundation officers. These individuals, who are listed in Appendix D, gave generously of their time. A few merit special attention. Charles Halpern and the staff at the Council for Public Interest Law, who wrote Balancing the Scales of Justice: Financing Public Interest Law in America, provided a wonderful model for me to follow.

Author : Robert Granfield
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190452625
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Private Lawyers and the Public Interest written by Robert Granfield and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009-11-04 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of original essays by leading and emerging scholars in the field examines the history, conditions, organization, and strategies of pro bono lawyering. Private Lawyers and the Public Interest: The Evolving Role of Pro Bono in the Legal Profession traces the rise and impact of the American Bar Association's campaign to hold lawyers accountable for a commitment to public service and to encourage public service within law schools. Combining empirical legal research with reflections by practitioners and theorists about the meaning and practice of pro bono legal work, this collection of essays interrogates the public service ideals that are inscribed within the legal profession and places these ideals within a broader social, economic, ideological, and normative context. Particular attention is paid to the factors that explain why lawyers engage in pro bono work and the ways in which their views of pro bono are mediated by the institutional context of their legal practice. The book also explores the concept of "public" in public service and compares pro bono as a means of delivering legal services with other mechanisms such as state funding. Collectively, these essays investigate the evolving role of pro bono in the legal profession and in law schools, the relationship between pro bono ideals and pro bono in practice, the way that pro bono is shaped by external forces beyond the individual practitioner, and the multi-faceted nature of legal professionalism as expressed through pro bono practice.

Author : Joseph Gordon Hylton
Publisher : Lexis Law Publishing (Va)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 818 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Property Law and the Public Interest written by Joseph Gordon Hylton and published by Lexis Law Publishing (Va). This book was released on 1998 with total page 818 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This casebook addresses changes that have occurred both in the law of property & in the law school curriculum. Its central premise is that the public & private law features of the law of property are so intertwined that the two can only be studied in conjunction. Consequently, the authors don't divide the materials into private & public law, as has been the norm. Instead, this new approach presents the law of property as a body of legal doctrine that is both public & private, & which has as its principal function the orderly transfer & use of natural & man-made resources. Teacher's Manual Casebook also available electronically