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Our very own Brad Wendel, on "The Torture Memos and the Demands of Legality" Wednesday, June 24th, 2009
Paper here . Abstract: This review essay considers five recent books concerning the role of governmetn lawyers in the Bush Administration's war on terror: Harold Bruff, Bad Advice (2009); Jack Goldsmith, The Terror Presidency (2007); Jane Mayer, The Dark Side (2008); Philippe Sands, Torture Team (2008); John Yoo, War by Other Means (2006).
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Our very own Brad Wendel, on "The Torture Memos and the Demands of Legality"
Here is a document that summarizes the results of the recent survey of PR professors, which was circulated on this blog and through two legal ethics listservs. Many thanks to the more than 100 people who responded and to Professors Laurel Terry and Margaret Raymond for their help in putting the survey together. We hope that you find the results to be useful. Also, I highly recommend that you check out the revamped and highly useful AALS PR section web site. Laurel Terry has done a great job of posting a lot of useful information for PR teachers. You can access the site here
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Survey of PR Courses
The Law Society of Upper Canada, which regulates Ontario lawyers, has just approved a new oath to be sworn by newly admitted lawyers. The new oath extends to some 8 clauses, including a requirement that the lawyer shall “in all things” conduct herself “honestly and with integrity and civility.” I have my substantive concerns with the inclusion of civility as something a lawyer swears to do (and on civility as a professional objective in general: here ). But the debate around this oath also provoked so me thought on the whole is sue of oath taking as sign ificant (or not) in thinking abo ut lawyer ethics. What does an oath to “strictly observe and uphold the eth ical standards that govern my professio n” add to how a lawyer make s decisions? It m ight create a culture in w hich ethical behaviour is viewed as more normatively significant. It might, by adding the dimension o f “promise keeping”, add some heft to ethical obli gations. But I would have thought that the substant ive moral obligations ultimately need to be sufficient in and of th emselves. If th ey are not, how does the oa th help? And if they are, the sworn oath becomes little more than an exclam ation point on the existin g obligations th at bind lawyers. And w hat about a conflict betwe en the oath an d the lawyer's subsequent a ssessment of what the ethical rules require of her? Does/should an oath – e.g., of civility – temper the lawyer's asses sment of what the rules wo uld otherwise require? An ironic (to me) footnote in all of this is that the report on the oath in Lawyer's Weekly (June 12, 2009, not available on line, unfortunately) mainly concerned itself with objections in the profession to lawyers and paralegals swearing the same oath. Apparently sole practitioners and small firm lawyers in Southwestern Ontario “were vehemently opposed to having the same oaths for lawyers and paralegals, arguing that only lawyers are professionals who are called to the Bar”. What does that say about the role of oath taking? Exclamation mark on professionalism or substantive alteration of ethical obligations
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Oathiness
I don't know the facts behind the ouster of the dean of DePaul's law school, Glen Weissenberger, but the public commentary suggests that he may have been terminated because he provided accurate information to the ABA's committee on accreditation. For some time now, I've been arguing on this blog that the most powerful form of ethics teaching that occurs in law schools is the open and widespread gaming of numbers and statistics for rankings purposes
Is moral deference a problem? Monday, June 22nd, 2009The Northwestern Law Review Colloquy has published an essay by Michael Hatfield titled “Professionalizing Moral Deference.” Hatfield uses the torture memos as evidence of a broader problem: our tendency to professionalize lawyers to view moral deference as a moral good. Here's an excerpt: From the beginning of law school, a lawyer is idealized as a zealous advocate for her client’s objective. This biased zealousness is justified by an appeal to the adversarial American legal system.
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Is moral deference a problem?
Orwell once referred to defenses of Soviet tactics as presenting a theory of “catastrophic gradualism.” In response to criticism of Stalinist brutality, a defender would say “you can't make an omelet without breaking some eggs.” In response to the criticism that no omelet had appeared, the defender would say “you can't expect everything to happen at once.” Orwell's contrarianism is well known; he was much harder on his political friends than his enemies, and was long celebrated by conservatives whose political philosophy he rejected. Consensus seemed to worry him, and he styled much of his writing as a needle aimed at the balloons of a parade marching in his general direction.
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A Rush From Judgment? The OLC Memoranda and Modern Legal Conservatism
Last week, the West Virginia Bar added its two cents to the increasingly populated world of legal ethics metadata opinions. The opinion addresses the obligations of both the sender and the recipient of electronic documents. With regard to the sending lawyer, the opinion concludes that a lawyer must take reasonable precautions when handling and transmitting electronic documents to avoid the inadvertent disclosure of protected metadata. The opinion offers some suggestions in this regard, including the use of metadata scrubbers
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West Virginia on Metadata
Like the weather, everyone talks about civility but no one does anything about it. Every year since 1984, when I began following the legal press, I have read a few hand-wringing pieces about the decline of civility in the profession. As I have researched the 19th Century origins of California's duty of confidentiality, I have noticed that the decline of civility has been a favorite topic since at least the 1850s. Maybe that should tell us something. Civility is a topic that needs to be handled with care. It traces to conceptions of “gentlemanly” conduct, and thus has been made to do duty as a code phrase for ugly biases against outsider groups. It is my impression, at least, that in the past “he's not a gentleman” often could be translated “Jew.” Given its checkered history and subjective nature, I sometimes wonder whether it is better to continue the time-honored tradition of worrying aloud about incivility but doing nothing about it. But however one defines the elusive term “civility,” it is my subjective view that screamers and table pounders, and people who won't give you an extension for papers due on December 26 (a real story for me), are tiresome. And it is my impression that loutish conduct is used tactically to try to intimidate young lawyers, particularly young women. As it is my job to try to get them launched with comparatively little trauma, I offer a suggestion for actually doing something: Civility traffic school
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Civility traffic school: A Loony Idea From A Pointy-Headed Academic
Although global data entry work is often among the most monotonous jobs imaginable, they require the skills of trained staff. For all its tedium, data entry is essential to a corporate company’s survival, without being one of its core operations, and many companies have turned to global data entry so that its employees can spend their time on more lucrative matters.
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Global Data Entry Outsourcing
HR data entry outsourcing is exactly what businesses need to survive in the increasingly competitive environment and hostile economic trends. Outsourcing eases the burden off the corporate company's shoulders allowing it to freely work on its core tasks and increase business productivity and profitability. Assuming Employer Responsibility HR data entry management is surely one task small and medium-sized corporate companies need to outsource, as taking care of human resources in-house could utilize a great deal of precious resources that could be spent for revenue generation.
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HR data entry outsourcing
You should also know about the advantages and disadvantages of LPO or Legal Outsourcing services. You should first find out what work you want to outsource to Indian and can accordingly choose the right Indian law firm. It is also true that when outsourcing to India have started with legal outsourcing services but these services has now progressively grown to even outsourcing of legal practice and patent services
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Questions Law Firms must ask about Legal Process Outsourcing
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Benefits of Data Entry Outsourcing Services in India
Has anyone noticed that the vast majority of Indian outsourcing firms have no clue when it comes to web application security? Other than having a few guides on their intranet site that nobody actually reads, are US customers acting irresponsibly by allowing folks to write web applications offshore making themselves insecure if the proper knowledge base doesn't exist? The folks over at Cognizant are the only consistent exception I have been able to observe
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Do Indian Outsourcing Firms understand Web Application Security