Recently added articles from The Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics:
Foreword to Volume XXI
Jan 01, 2008; ... The Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics's founder and longtime faculty advisor, Father Robert F. Drinan, S.J., made his final appearance as a Journal contributor under the inglorious billing of an "Audience Member" attending the Journal's 2006 Symposium.1 The Symposium transcript, and Father ...
The Role of Corporations and In-House Counsel
Jan 01, 2008; ... Judge Robert A. Katzmann has graciously invited my observations about bis article on the unmet legal needs of the immigrant poor. It is a signal honor. No senior judicial officer, to my knowledge, has put the immigrant poor's overall plight in such coordinated focus, marshaled the challenges to ...
Things to Do While Waiting for the Revolution
Jan 01, 2008; ... Come the revolution, our immigration law and policy will be so enlightened1 we'll need very few lawyers at all, and anyone who does need a lawyer but cannot afford private counsel will be provided a public "immigration defender" at government expense.2 Thus the need for pro bono immigration ...
Creating Incentives and Facilitating Access: Improving the Level and Quality of Pro Bono Representation Before EOIR
Jan 01, 2008; ... I am honored by this opportunity to provide my perspective on the unmet legal needs of immigrants. I have served as the Coordinator of the Pro Bono Program (later renamed "The Legal Orientation and Pro Bono Program") at the Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) since its creation in ...
The Role of Major Law Firms in Addressing the Unmet Legal Needs of the Immigrant Poor
Jan 01, 2008; ... I am honored that my dear friend, Judge Robert A. Katzmann, has invited me to respond to his provocative and thoughtful address "The Legal Profession and the Unmet Needs of the Immigrant Poor." His remarks paint a troubling and compelling picture of the current status of legal assistance to ...
Improving Immigration Adjudications Through Competent Counsel
Jan 01, 2008; ... The immigration adjudication system in the United States is in serious need of reform. While much attention has focused on one of the principal adjudicators, the Immigration Judges, recent research conducted by Philip Schrag, Jaya Ramji-Nogales, and Andrew Schoenholtz has shown that policymakers ...
Law Firms, Ethics, and Equity Capital
Jan 01, 2008; ... INTRODUCTION The correspondence collected here represents an effort to start a conversation. On October 30,2007, the Queen approved the United Kingdom's Legal Services Act 2007. This legislation includes a provision that permits non-lawyer equity investment in law firms, subject to ...
The Legal Profession and the Unmet Needs of the Immigrant Poor
Jan 01, 2008; ... My subject is a pressing one, the unmet legal needs of immigrants, a vulnerable population of human beings who come to this country in the hopes of a better life, who enter often without knowing the English language and culture, in economic deprivation, often in fear. I think we can all imagine ...
Legal Ethics and Risk Management: Complementary Visions of Lawyer Regulation
Jan 01, 2008; ... The relationship between risk management and legal ediics has recently become a topic of academic debate.1 Sadly, in my judgment none of the writers who have recently ventured onto this turf (all of whom I greatly esteem, and two of whom are both good friends and mentors) have accurately ...
Getting Honest About Client Perjury
Jan 01, 2008; ... INTRODUCTION Chief Justice Warren Burger and two other federal judges initiated disbarment proceedings against me in 1966.1 The charge was that, in a lecture to a group of lawyers, I had expressed opinions that "appear to be in conflict with the Canons of Professional Ethics of the ...
Modified Partnership Structures and Their Effects on Associate Satisfaction
Jan 01, 2008; ... I. INTRODUCTION Historically, when a senior associate came up for partnership consideration, the firm's management would either decide to elect or to dismiss the associate. This decision was typically guided by analysis of a number of factors.1 During most promotion deliberations, ...
Poor Clients, Informed Consent, and the Ethics of Rejection
Oct 01, 2007; ... I. INTRODUCTION For the first time in twenty years, the ethics rules for poverty lawyers have undergone significant revision.1 Like their previous iteration,2 however, the new rules do little to address what is arguably the poverty lawyer's most enduring ethical dilemma: how, in the face ...
Zealousness Run Amok
Oct 01, 2007; ... Lawyers constantly face pressures from clients to take actions with respect to adverse parties, particularly in the course of litigation, that are beyond the bounds of zealous advocacy. "Toughness" and a willingness to play "hard ball" are qualities frequently cited with favor. The facts of this ...
Politics, Office Politics, and Legal Ethics: A Case Study in the Strategy of Judgment
Oct 01, 2007; ... INTRODUCTION Everyone knows that good judgment is the most important thing a lawyer can have.1 Good judgment produces good results for clients, and it helps lawyers keep themselves out of trouble. But judgment is hard to pin down. What makes good judgment good and bad judgment bad? Can ...
Confessions of a Whistleblower: A Law Professor's Reflections on the Experience of Reporting a Colleague
Oct 01, 2007; ... I. THESTORY1 "I don't remember Gary coming to my class." v "He didn't come to Criminal Procedure?" "I don't remember him being there." "David, there are only 22 students in the class; it's a small room. How could you have missed a member of your tenure committee ...
Whistleblowing & Its Quandaries
Oct 01, 2007; ... Whistleblowers are men and women who publicly call individuals in their own organizations to account for behavior that they, the whistleblowers, deem inappropriate by some standard. The metaphor that the word invokes-that of a referee in striped shirt who enforces agreed-upon rules in a football ...
A Satire of Law Firm Employment Practices
Oct 01, 2007; ... A Satire of Law Firm Employment Practices REVIEW OF Anonymous Lawyer, by Jeremy Blachman. We're a law firm. Time is billable. The client doesn't pay for small talk. Every minute you spend away from your desk is a minute the firm isn't making any money off your presence, even ...
Meeting the Demands of the Indigent Population: The Choice Between Mandatory and Voluntary Pro Bono Requirements
Jul 01, 2007; ... I. INTRODUCTION In June 2006, the Florida Standing Committee on Pro Bono Legal Services issued a report indicating that members of the Florida Bar donated 1,457,644 hours during the 2003-2004 bar year.1 This equates to nearly fifty hours per attorney for the year2 and to approximately ...
FOREWORD
Jul 01, 2007; ... I am proud to present the 2006-2007 Current Developments issue of The Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics. Written and edited by journal members, the Current Developments issue contains a broad range of timely topics of concern to both scholars and practitioners. The Notes both set forth current ...
A Change of Heart for the DOJ: Policy Run Amok or Greater Respect for Ethical Norms?
Jul 01, 2007; ... Frankly, I have a hard time understanding the criticisms from corporations which claim they want to cooperate, and then complain when we ask them to disclose the facts and evidence they have uncovered. Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty, September 12, 2006(1) The modern ...