power of attorney is a voidable contract, and article 678 of civil law involves: power of attorney is being terminated, because of client's dethrone or lawyer's resignation. according to jurisprudential texts, the lawyer is trustee and will not be responsible unless in case of abuse or wastage. the important question is that: whether lawyer can resign without considering client's...

Background: Advocacy is one of the most important institutions that can play a constructive role in the process of achieving justice. The presence of a lawyer in judicial trials will greatly facilitate the discovery of the truth and the prevention of encroachments and violations of citizens' rights. The necessity and importance of the right of defense have made it possible for advanced legal an...

police in cases such as obvious or important offences, is authorized to intervene, arrest, detain and investigate citizens. the current rules and regulations of our country have a passive role in showing respect to dos and don’ts and exhibiting decorous and lawful behavior towards the arrested people. the commitment treat people appropriately, the right to have a lawyer, keep silent, consult a ...

Personal injury victims involved in compensation processes have a worse recovery than those not involved in compensation processes. One predictor for worse recovery is lawyer engagement. As some people argue that this negative relation between lawyer engagement and recovery may be explained by lawyers' attitude and communications to clients, it seems important to investigate lawyer-client inter...

Psychotherapists' and physicians' sexual contact with their patients has been long held as unethical conduct. However, lawyers' sexual contact with clients has been largely ignored in the professional literature. This article uniquely anatomizes the similarities in the vulnerabilities and power imbalances that exist between psychotherapists' and lawyers' relationships with patients/clients. The...

So often we hear the legal profession berate expert witnesses as "hired guns" whose bias is for sale. While this may be relevant to a small minority of "experts", the majority do their job with integrity and in an ethical fashion. An advocate for a proposition will not call a witness to support a claim if it is clear that the witness holds an opposing view. It follows that the bias emanates fro...

We investigate if prior professional legal education either restrains or increases the extent to which the insider trades of company executives and directors are informed. We show that lawyer-insiders earn significantly lower abnormal returns than non-lawyers when they purchase their own company’s shares. Purchases of own company stock by lawyer-insiders are associated with lower future earning...

[1] Loyalty and independent judgment are essential elements in the lawyer's relationship to a client. Concurrent conflicts of interest can arise from the lawyer's responsibilities to another client, a former client or a third person or from the lawyer's own interests. For specific Rules regarding certain concurrent conflicts of interest, see Rule 1.8. For former client conflicts of interest, se...

Fear of being involved in a malpractice lawsuit has spawned various defensive attitudes and behaviors in physicians. Despite the relative low rate of malpractice suits against psychiatrists, they too engage in defensive medicine. Simon's and Shuman's paper reviews the hidden danger to clinical care that defensive psychiatric practices can pose to both patients and doctors. This commentary furth...