Lawyers should write in document markup language just like web developers, digital publishers, scientists, and almost everyone else.

BACKGROUND Whereas work-hour regulations have been taken for granted since 1940 in other occupational settings, such as commercial aviation, they have been implemented only recently in medical professions, where they lead to a lively debate. The aim of the present study was to evaluate arguments in favour of and against work-hour limitations in medicine given by Swiss surgeons, lawyers, and pil...

The lawyer is standing at the gate to Heaven and St. Peter is listening to his sins. .. the list goes on for quite awhile. The lawyer objects and begins to argue his case. He admits all these things, but argues, "Wait, I've done some charity in my life also." St. Peter looks in his book and says, "Yes, I see. Once you gave a dime to a panhandler and once you gave an extra nickel to the shoeshin...

It is ironic that many clients and lawyers now condemn hourly billing. Starting in the 1950s, both groups demanded the switch from fixed-fee billing to hourly billing. This article explains why. Using a new economic model, Professors Cloud and Shepherd show that societal changes, particularly the expansion of pretrial discovery in the 1938 Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, led inevitably to hou...