Report on profession's ills has a feminine feel

Article Abstract:

A 1997 Boston Bar Association report on the legal profession is unusual in connecting the effects of law practice on personal life and in including recommendations for female and colored lawyers. Examples of words to describe ways of dealing with conditions in the legal profession are "candor," "feedback" and "networking." This kind of coping could be taken as feminine rather than macho. It accepts that the condition of the legal profession, like that of being female in a previously male-dominated system, may be resistant to immediate change.

Management, Reports, Practice of law, Boston Bar Association

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Compulsory bar dues and politics don't mix

Article Abstract:

The controversy over the use of California State Bar dues for political activity started with a veto by Gov Pete Wilson of legislation extending the state bar's authority to levy dues. The bar is unified, meaning that lawyers must be members to obtain state licenses. Wilson's objection is to the dues' political uses, such as stands on affirmative action and for same-sex marriage. Most lawyers originally thought of their bar associations as purely professional and not political, but bars today routinely speak to social justice issues.

Political activity, California, Bar associations, California. State Bar of California

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Would British fixes improve U.S. justice?

Article Abstract:

Access to US justice may have reached the point of access to health care in that the public wants a degree of acess that the government does not have the funds to support. Unlike the United Kingdom, there has not been a serious suggestion for systematic reform of the judicial system in more than two decades. Such is the state of affairs despite the fact that the British civil litigation system has long been held before the US legal community as a model.

United Kingdom, Justice, Administration of, Administration of justice, Comparative analysis

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