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ABA comments tepidly on arrests of dissident Chinese lawyers
OTHERWISE: ABA comments tepidly on arrests of dissident Chinese lawyers. China’s Communist party last year made rule of law its overriding theme. They mean it. But they don’t mean it the way we mean...
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Ohio Ethics Board Says Judges May Not Refuse to Perform Same Sex Marriages
Ohio Ethics Board Says Judges May Not Refuse to Perform Same Sex Marriages. The Supreme Court of Ohio’s Board of Professional Conduct has issued advisory opinion 2015-1. The Board concludes that in...
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Catholic Lawyers Call for “Constitutional Resistance to Obergefell v....
Source: OTHERWISE: Catholic Lawyers Call for “Constitutional Resistance to Obergefell v. Hodges” | American Principles Project Princeton’s Robert George – the conservative Catholic tribune – has...
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Former GE General Counsel Ben Heineman Gives Advice to In-House Counsel
The April 2016 issue of Corporate Counsel Magazine (subscription required) features an article by Ben W. Heineman, Jr., who served as GE’s senior vice president-general counsel from 1987 to 2003 and...
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Inside (Inhouse) Lawyers: Friends or Gatekeepers?
Those of you teaching Chapter 6—The Lawyer’s Duties to the Legal System, the Profession, and Nonclients—might be interested in an article of mine just published by the Fordham Law Review for its...
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Two Examples this Week of Technology and Artificial Intelligence Promoting...
Two examples in the news this week of the potential for AI to increase access to justice – and perhaps raise UPL issues? My hope is that the academy and the profession will focus on how this helps the...
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Tool for Teaching Implicit Bias in Criminal Defense Work
A new 10-minute video is available from the ABA exploring implicit bias and criminal defense. h/t to Tigran Eldred @ Behavioral Legal Ethics Blog. Filed under: Chapter 7: Special Ethical Rules:...
View ArticleDec. 28, 2018 Deadline for FASPE 2 week Fellowship for students & early...
In light of recent events, this announcement seems particularly timely: FASPE (Fellowships at Auschwitz for the Study of Professional Ethics) is now accepting applications for its 2019 Law program....
View ArticleDeborah Rhode, Who Transformed the Field of Legal Ethics, Dies at 68 – The...
Any discussion of Deborah Rhode’s work and impact inevitably is a flood of superlatives. We are fortunate that Clay Risen of the New York Times took the time to tell the story of a woman who was a...
View ArticleOTHERWISE: Amicus Cases – NJ State Bar Association – 2015 – 2020
Source: OTHERWISE: Amicus Cases – NJ State Bar Association – 2015 – 2020 The New Jersey State Bar Association – the largest private organization of lawyers in the State – frequently appears (often by...
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