Law is behind other industries and professions in its implementation of technology that could make the practice of law and the delivery of legal services more effective and satisfying. Although there has been considerable development in legal technology over the past few years, research identified the need for an interactive LinkedIn-style online community for lawyers to communicate other lawye...

BACKGROUND The relationship between patients and health professionals emphasizes deliberation and joint decision making, that derives in the informed consent. AIM To evaluate decision making of patients in health care and to identify the notion of capacity for decision making, according to lawyers and physicians. MATERIAL AND METHODS A semi-structured interview about procedures to assess de...

Given that ―rule-based analysis is the dominant form of reasoning‖ used by lawyers, it is probably safe to say that most lawyers would agree with Aristotle‘s sentiment. After all, this is how lawyers are taught to think in law school. Three years of their lives are slavishly devoted to the pursuit of logic with little to no emphasis on other forms of reasoning. Therefore, it is not surprising t...

Contrary to numerous other professionals, lawyers are political agents in their daily professional practices. They habitually act through legalistic struggles to alter allocation of public goods (Halliday and Karpik, 1997). Frequently, they either function in politics and/or have meaning in politics (Abel, 1989, 1995; Barzilai, 2005; Eulau and Sprague, 1964; Feeley and Krislov, 1990, Feeley and...

I read the article titled “Attitudes and Health Behavior of Lawyers in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu” by Barani and Sabapathy [1] with curiosity. The authors’ efforts are admirable. This study provides an overview and genderwise differences in attitudes and practices of lifestyle, food intake, and alcohol and tobacco intake among lawyers in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu. However, the following issues and con...

This paper takes the increasing internationalisation of professional service firms (PSFs) and recent institutionalist perspectives on embedded agency as opportunity to explore how the interplay of normative settings can create opportunities for institutional work. Using observational and interview data from an embedded single case study in a global law firm, the paper examines how banking lawye...

it is expected that the legislator should pass only clear and unambiguous laws. although the legislators do their best at codification and approving the laws, there would be some ambiguities while executing them and therefore they require some interpretation.interpretation of laws is a very difficult task and it requires a systematic and logic method and the judges and lawyers should not interp...