Through their professional education and training, new lawyers are generally encouraged to adopt a civic vision of identity. This article explores convergences divergences in how entering an increasingly globalized legal profession conceive roles different national contexts. In particular, I draw on interviews cross-cultural identity-mapping method examine the lived experiences professionalism ...

... With the advent of the new millennium and a rapidly changing international outlook, Japan, China, and Korea have been at the forefront of recent media attention, focused primarily on the rapidly gaining influence and power that these countries wield on a level no longer limited to Asia. ... Some argue that the vagueness inherent in China's description of the role of domestic lawyers or law ...

This essay marks the occasion of my fourth trip to Boulder to participate in one of Phil Weiser’s justly celebrated conferences on the state of the telecommunications industry. I’m happy to report that all is well in the industry for lawyers, because the same basic arguments rage on in all the usual forums and show little sign of abating. All is well for academic commentators too, because the a...

In this paper we investigate how the advice that lawyers provide to their clients affects the disclosure of evidence and the outcome of adjudication, and how the adjudicator should allocate the burden of proof in light of the effect. Despite lawyers’ expertise in assessing the evidence, their advice is found to have no effect on adjudication in a broad set of circumstances, if legal advice is c...

Psychotherapists' and physicians' sexual contact with their patients has been long held as unethical conduct. However, lawyers' sexual contact with clients has been largely ignored in the professional literature. This article uniquely anatomizes the similarities in the vulnerabilities and power imbalances that exist between psychotherapists' and lawyers' relationships with patients/clients. The...

Abstract Purpose This article is part of an ongoing body investigation examining the experiences lawyers with diverse and multiple minority identities, particular focus on disabilities; who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer (“LGBTQ+” overarching term); identities associated race ethnicity, gender, age. The this discrimination bias in their workplaces reported by experiencin...