This article reconsiders the relationship between criminal adjudication and forensic expertise in the light of 'new paradigms' of forensic practice and recent law reform. It briefly summarizes conventional wisdom on the typical shortcomings of forensic science and other expert evidence, as a springboard for a more searching critical diagnosis of longstanding maladies. The fundamentally jurisdic...

The article focuses on the issue of arranging open-public webinars Legal English. author defines goals creating webinars, such as providing potential students with more information about a specific program or course at university, promoting personal brand teacher university; target audience — groups undergraduates, graduate students, practicing lawyers, and everyone who is interested in topic w...

Lawyers’ contingent fee (CF) rates are rather uniform, often one-third of the recovery. Arguably, this uniformity is a type of anti-competitive pricefixing, which results in clients paying supra-competitive fees. This paper challenges this argument. It shows that uniform CF rates provide clients with an important advantage, as such rates enable them to make a de facto “take-it-orleave-it” offer...

Drawing on the boundary theory (Nippert-Eng, 1996a) and the concept of institutional framework according to Piszczek and Berg (2014), we explore in this paper the link between institutional settings and boundary management practices in the case of selfemployed German lawyers. Qualitative empirical results on the basis of 12 interviews reveal that the institutional context in case of self-employ...

before constitution revolution, advocacy in our country governed by islamic law and lawyers introduced as a free profession in means of that law. after that revolution the government promulgated some rules for its regulation as an official profession. by act of bar association independence, this profession declared independent. many lawyers after islamic revolution have been filtrated and by th...

This is the first theory-guided empirical research seeking to identify the correlates and contributors to the well-being and life satisfaction of lawyers. Data from several thousand lawyers in four states provide insights about diverse factors from law school and one’s legal career and personal life. Striking patterns appear repeatedly in the data and raise serious questions about the common pr...

the aim of this study was to explore the associations between occupational stress measured through job demand control (jdc), and burnout among lawyers in sri lanka. the job demand-control model and the burnout model are among the most used theoretical frameworks that relate job characteristics to health and well-being of individuals. this study included 290 respondent lawyers practicing in the ...