Many lawyers are drawn to a career in social justice, in part, to help others and, in part, to fulfill their own path to wellness. Advocacy that sustains personal well-being, however, also poses considerable obstacles to well-being. Some of these obstacles are inherent to social justice work but...

Previous studies of securities fraud class actions under the PSLRA have found that class counsel's fee requests and awards are lower in cases in which the lead plaintiff is a public institutional investor rather than a union fund or individual investor. Those studies, however, have not explained...

This article examines the professional responsibilities and ethical dimensions of the role of the family lawyer to serve as a counselor and as a “gatekeeper,” particularly in the context of working with clients considering or involved in dissolution proceedings. Family lawyers, as a class,...

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...

Due in part to the COVID-19 pandemic, enhancements in technology, as well as shifts in the macroeconomic and socioeconomic dynamics of globalization, Digital Transformation (DT) has become an enterprise-wide imperative for most multinational companies (MNCs). As such, legal departments are being...

This book review engages recent scholarship on the nature of civil-rights lawyering in the African-American bar in the generation before Brown v. Board of Education. Using the recent biography of Earl Burrus Dickerson, one of the leaders of the African-American bar before World War II, as its...

There has been a steady increase in the number of self-represented divorce litigants in recent years. Do divorcing couples just want to save money, or are other factors at play in the decision to go pro se in one's divorce? This article looks at a random sample of 567 divorce cases in Waukesha...

The legal system can be treated as a large market where justice is traded in terms of legal disputes. Empirical evidence underlines that demand for legal assistance raises over time, despite high costs connected to filing, not only in Italy but also elsewhere in Europe. Moreover, the demand for...

Competition Law is mainly concerned with promoting consumer welfare. Competition Law aims at encouraging competition by prohibiting anti-competitive trade practices. The Competition and Fair-Trading Act prohibits certain horizontal practices i.e., certain arrangements or agreements between firms...

Lawyers commonly make threats that would be subject to sanction outside the institutional structure of lawyering and outside of doctrines such as the litigation privilege. Academic analysis of threats and blackmail largely ignores lawyer threats, implicitly positing the legal system as an...