v. Papastavros, 323 Conn. 275 (Sept. 27, 2016), the Connecticut Supreme Court ruled that expert testimony is required to establish the element of causation in a legal malpractice case. Thus, even where an attorney’s performance was deficient, if the plaintiff cannot present expert testimony that the outcome of her case would have been different but for the attorney’s negligence, the attorney wi...

70-year-old Dirk, alleged to have blackmailed and threatened John de Mol (Dutch mediatycoon) and the family of his sister Linda de Mol, is attending the first public session at the court in Utrecht. According to his lawyer M has turned into a mental and physical wreck since his arrest. He lost 10 kilos, is having trouble with his blood sugar levels and also has mental issues. M. himself also br...

Sloppy education results in misdirected graduates. We need to see legal as a matter of shaping adepts something that can be called caliber intellect. It is referring the university formation way thinking and perceiving world distinguishes studies from any other intellectual or scientific preparation. The author argues main must ensure graduates are historical lawyers. There two occupational pat...

Abstract Personal branding represents a very important issue in assessing the value created any activity. Some jobs can’t exist anymore without personal branding. More than that, some existing professional categories have to adapt these days, by adopting strategies, even though past it was no need for that. This article focuses on such category – lawyers. By conducting quantitative research amo...

... Anthony Kronman begins his deeply pessimistic meditation on the state of the American legal profession with a confession. ... On that occasion, Kronman argued that the legal profession's moral problems stemmed from its commitment to advocacy as a professional ideal. ... This vision of the lawyer's role, which Kronman calls "the ideal of the lawyer-statesman" (p. 3), links professional excel...

The standard Engineer-Lawyer problem (Kahneman & Tversky, 1973) points to the failure of reasoners to integrate mentioned base-rate information in arriving at likelihood estimates. Research in this area nevertheless has presupposed that participants respect complementarity (i.e., participants ensure that competing estimates add up to 100%). A survey of the literature leads us to doubt this pre-...