In an increasingly competitive and congested job market, this paper examines new career opportunities open to linguistically minded young lawyers. The globalisation of recent decades has led to a soaring demand for the translation of legal documents, inter alia in cross-border financial...

The American Bar Association (ABA) Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility recently issued an advisory ethics opinion in which it found that a lawyer has an ethical duty to investigate when a client or prospective client tries to retain a lawyer for a matter that could be...

The unprecedented public health and financial crisis resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic calls upon the legal profession to go beyond traditional, adversarial, “rights”-based representation and disputing force majeure liability, towards working with clients and collaborating with...

This article focuses on counsel's liability exposure when his or her client engages in fraudulent conduct. The article begins by addressing the pertinent ethical rules promulgated by the American Bar Association (ABA). Thereafter, the discussion provides an analysis of the pertinent case law...

This essay examines the ethical dilemmas that emerge from the intersection of morality and our professional obligations as attorneys. It argues that moral decision-making is difficult for similar reasons across professions: (1) We have imperfect knowledge about probabilities; (2) it is...

From the neo-Weberian literature on state-building and the political sociology of the legal profession, one might expect government lawyers to be sheepdogs, nipping at the heels of straying administrators, supplying their agencies with the bureaucratic autonomy so often missing in American...

Women have become increasingly visible as leading advocates for social causes in a male-dominated profession. Their advancement in a specialized and often risky law practice illustrates a general process by which lawyers establish themselves as influential interpreters of law, enabling them to...

The first part of the paper analyzes the various components (as well as likely failures) in the complex two-way market chain that links the supply of economic theories with the design, sale and implementation of workable economic policies. Among other aspects of this link two points are...