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Child advocacy groups argue with increasing force that children’s lawyers should function as traditional, client-directed attorneys. Consistent with this trend, the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers recently revised its standards…

Despite its obvious importance to the content and legitimacy of a state’s rules of legal ethics, the process by which these rules are made has received little scholarly attention. This…

This Article compares networks of relationships among elite lawyers and other advocates found in research conducted over a period of more than thirty years in varying professional and political contexts.…

This Article chronicles the paradigmatic shift in legal ethics from a moral philosophical approach to a jurisprudential one. This Article critically examines the emerging uses of jurisprudential theory and argues…

This Article analyzes the continuing uncertainty surrounding the requirements of the Bankruptcy Code and state ethical codes with respect to a chapter 11 debtor’s retention of legal counsel. The Article…