Changing times, changing rules

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Legal ethics are developing in complexity because the ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct were written in 1983, before the Internet, consumer movement and law practices as business entities. Therefore, attorneys' ethical standards need to reflect the changing times. Five attorneys explore some traditional issues that have become more complex: fee disputes, identifying the client, protecting the interests of clients unable to understand the legal issues, retirement of a lawyer and protecting client communications' confidentiality.

Analysis, Continuing legal education, Legal ethics

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Breaking the rules

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Philip K. Howard has struck a resonating chord with many readers of his new book 'The Death of Common Sense,' and jarred the sensibilities of many others. The book chronicles the ludicrousness of the modern US regulatory system and the straitjackets that keep bureaucrats from actually helping the public they are meant to serve. Howard, co-founder of prestigious New York City firm Howard, Darby & Levin, espouses greater flexibility and room for personal initiative. Conservatives have seized on his book, but Ralph Nader loathes it.

Writers, Lawyers, Behavior, Biography, Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Bureaucracy, Portrayals, Criticism and interpretation, Attorneys as authors, The Death of Common Sense: How Law Is Suffocating America (Book), Howard, Philip K., Howard, Darby and Levin

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Schools of procedure rules; apply parliamentary knowledge for efficiency - and legality - of meetings

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Issues concerning applying parliamentary procedure to the conduct of business meetings is discussed. Institutes offering courses in parliamentary procedure and codes of parliamentary procedure other than the well-known Roberts Rules of Order are listed.

United States, Corporate governance, Meetings

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