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Lawyers / Legal System 1994
94.24 Limiting the role of lawyers in college disciplinary proceedings; growing lawyer incivility], 203
94.25 Limiting the role of lawyers (Rising incivility); 1992 deposition example; C. S. Lewis on "wecastrate and bid the gildings be fruitful"], 203
94.29 Clarifying the role of the college attorney, 209
94.54 Lawyers' ethics [Derek Bok on need for mediation], 246
94.77 Court encourages informal resolution of disciplinary cases [guidelines for informal resolution andmediation in student disciplinary cases], 286
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Lawyers / Legal System 1995
95.5 Dumping what's dumb ["Correction Day" proposed; impact of federal rules on colleges; excerptfrom The Death of Common Sense], 321
95.12 Law school is less popular . . . [applications down; disillusion about legal ethics; law firmsrestructuring; suicide of 1990 Yale law school graduate; fewer law students intend to practicelaw], 331.
95.26 No punishment for "offensive personality" [defining ethical standards with reasonable precision;hostile environment sexual harassment requires a pattern of misconduct], 359.
95.28 University graduation prayers upheld [judicial warning against resorting to litigation whencompromise is possible], 362.
95.33 Written jibes aren't sexual harassment [Title VII not a remedy for every tasteless joke;alternatives to censorship or punishment suggested], 367.
95.39 Liability of mediators [successful mediation programs require candid discussion; protection formediation discussions and agreements; possible application of judicial and quasi-judicialimmunity to campus judicial administrators], 375.
95.59 Observations on the Simpson verdicts, 406.
95.68 Truth or consequences [lawyers and lies; William Kunstler "adheres to a truth that is deeper thana factual one;" Foucault and poststructuralist perspectives; a renewed interest in truth-seeking;the relationship between academic freedom and the pursuit of truth], 425.
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Lawyers / Legal System 1996
96.42 The value of "investigatory" procedures ["drug courts" and college "disciplinary conferences"replace traditional adversarial procedures with the investigatory model], 540.
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Lawyers / Legal System 1997
97.35 Judicial candor on parents and lawyers, [judges criticize parents and lawyer for bringingvexatious lawsuit against school official], 640.
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Lawyers / Legal System 1998
98.25 The ethical obligations of lawyers [holding in Nix v. Whiteside: lawyer may not advocate orpassively tolerate a client giving false testimony], 739.
98.32 Evidence of common sense [Seventh Circuit decision in McMahon v. Bunn-O-Matic Corporation;responsibilities of consumers to use common sense; bare conclusions from expert witnesses arenot enough], 754.
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Lawyers / Legal System 1999
99.47 Helping students define success [review of Vanderbilt Law Review article by Patrick Schiltz on the practice of law and the quality of life; psychologists Myers and Diener on components of happiness; www.balancequest.com; Saint-Exupery on know-ledge and wisdom as components of happiness], 920.
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Lawyers / Legal System / 2000
00.1 More litigation . . . with no end in sight, part I [Legalistic life taking root in America; Jerold Auerbach on Darwinism and the law; discovering truth is not the objective of the law; growing tension and incivility in legal practice; Lincoln on lawyering], 930.
00.2 More litigation . . . with no end in sight, part II [Reducing liability risks through good management; commentary on risk management by Tom Hustoles], 932.
00.19 Defining the limits of congressional power [In Brzonkala v. Morrision the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the private civil remedy provision in the Violence Against Women Act], 980.
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