Drugs warp the system

Article Abstract:

The current draconian approach to controlling illegal drugs is modestly successful but its costs for the legal system are virtually paralyzing and morally maddening. The present drug policy makes the worst drugs somewhat difficult to get in the suburbs, where most voters live, and provides a route to high-income work in the inner cities. It is also expanding the prison population, makes prosecution a lottery, perverts defense law, and warps every phase of the criminal legal system.

Narcotics Abuse & Control, Legislative Bodies, Other Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities, Criminal Law NEC, Social aspects, Political aspects, Narcotics, Control of, Narcotics control, Criminal justice, Administration of, Administration of criminal justice, Criminal law

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Uniform discrepancies

Article Abstract:

The conflicting rules of procedures in many federal jurisdictions rarely lead to problems, but have the potential to do so. Most federal courts adopt the rules of the state in which they are located, meaning District Courts can have more than one set of rules. In cases such as the Texas ex parte contact rule, which conflicts with federal rules, such discrepancies can cost lawyers their case on a technicality. Other potentially costly discrepancies are discussed.

Interpretation and construction, Legal ethics, Court rules, states

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Lawyers and accountants must make it work

Article Abstract:

Lawyers should compete better rather than trying to curtail the expansion of accounting firms into services once exclusively performed by law firms. Accounting firms all these services tax practice or management consulting, and necessarily involve a mixture of legal and financial analysis. Rules governing the imputation of conflict of interest and the financial relationship between lawyers and other service providers must also be reconsidered.

United States, Multidisciplinary law firms, Unauthorized practice of law

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