The word "ethics" is a particularly amorphous concept in the context of legal training. I t is critical to spell out the several distinct meanings of legal ethics: First, there are professional rules of protocol (Ethics I): a client's funds must be kept in a special escrow account separate from the attorney's funds;l a lawyer only contacts the adverse party through his of her own lawyer;' a law...

Last August, the American Bar Association adopted the Model Rules of Proje ional Conduct. which significantly altered the ABA' position on lawyer advertising. It is still unclear how the states will respond to the ABA's new position, and the debate about the propriety of lawyer advertising continue. In the authors' view, both sides of the debate have overlooked an impur-tant point: For purposes...

Focussing on authorial imaginary, this article seeks to determine what leads American lawyers-turned-authors project negative fictional images of their own profession. After a brief introduction FASP (specialised narrative) and other defining parameters discussion, we examine the vocation/avocation profile lawyer-author commonalities which facilitate crossover from lawyer author. We then go dis...

The Statements of Antitrust Enforcement Policy in Health Care, issued by the FTC and the DOJ, dramatically change how the agencies evaluate physician joint venture networks. This article analyzes the Statements, providing useful guidance to the health lawyer.

Most legal expert systems attempt to implement complex models of legal reasoning. But the utility of a legal expert system lies not in the extent to which it simulates a lawyer’s approach to a legal problem, but in the quality of its predictions and of its arguments. A useful legal expert system should be capable of producing advice similar to that which one might get from a lawyer, so it shoul...

Our legal expert system KONTERM contains a selective thesaurus and a knowledge base for the automatic representation of the structure and the contents of the document. The thesaurus takes into account the necessary degree of formalism of legal language and therefore overcomes the untidiness of natural language and represents automatically the expert knowledge of a lawyer about legal terminology...