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  • Inside Lawyers' Ethicsby Christine Parker; Adrian Evans

    Cambridge University Press 2007; US$ 49.00

    This book is designed to help law students and new lawyers understand and modify their own ethical priorities. more...

  • Client Management For Solicitorsby John Freeman

    Routledge-Cavendish 1997; US$ 155.00

    Focusing on the client issues which are becoming an integral part of the work of solicitors, this work examines pro-active methods that should enable the practising solicitor to learn and apply techniques and work practices that should help ensure that the needs of the client are satisfied. more...

  • Practical Guide To Handling Motor Insurers' Bureau Claimsby Judy Dawson; Nick Jervis

    Routledge-Cavendish 2002; US$ 105.95

    Any firm dealing with the Motor Insurers' Bureau must have watertight systems in place by October 2002 when the limitation period for cases proceeding under the 1999 Uninsured Drivers' Agreement expires. This work shows how to accomplish this to avoid potential negligence claims. more...

  • Lawyers and Vampiresby W. Wesley Pue; David Sugarman

    Hart 2003; US$ 170.40

    Analyses aspects of the cultural history of the legal profession in England, Canada, Australia, France, Germany, Italy, Sweden, Switzerland, Norway and Finland. It examines ways in which lawyers were imaginatively and institutionally constructed, and their larger cultural significance. more...

  • Liability Insurance in International Arbitrationby Richard Jacobs; Lorelie S. Masters; Paul Stanley

    Hart 2004; US$ 213.60

    A comprehensive work offering a detailed commentary on how the Bermuda Form is to be construed, its coverage, the substantive law to be applied, the limits of liability, exceptions, and the procedures to be followed during arbitration proceedings in London. more...

  • Reorganization and Resistanceby William L F Felstiner

    Hart 2005; US$ 100.80

    Reorganization and Resistance analyses the ways in which the legal professions of nine countries (England, France, the Netherlands, Germany, Canada, the US, Mexico, Australia and Korea) and one continent (South America) have confronted the internal and external political, economic and social upheavals of the past twenty years. It documents how change and resistance are inextricably tied together in an oppositional tension where the greater weight shifts gradually from one to the other, even shifts backwards at times, but in the long view runs in the direction of change. The most obvious instance almost everywhere is the struggle of women in legal professions where improvement is undeniable even as resistance is varied and stiff. The book charts... more...

  • Responsibility in Law and Moralityby Peter Cane

    Hart 2002; US$ 96.00

    By adopting a comparative institutional approach to the link between law and morality, this questions the view that morality stands to law as critical standard to conventional practice. It shows how law and morality interact symbiotically, and how this can add to our understanding of responsibility more...

  • The First Women Lawyersby Mossman Mary Jane

    Hart 2006; US$ 74.40

    Reveals how a number of quite different women engaged with ideas of gender and legal professionalism at the turn of the twentieth century. By situating women's claims for admission to the bar within this context in different jurisdictions, this study examines the intersection of historical ideas about gender and about legal professionalism. more...

  • Women in the World's Legal Professionsby Ulrike Schultz; Gisela Shaw

    Hart 2003; US$ 189.60

    Women lawyers,less than a century ago still almost a contradiction in terms, have come to stay. Who are they? Where are they? What impact have they had on the profession that had for so long been a bastion of male domination? These are key questions asked in this first comprehensive study of women in the world?s legal professions. Answers are based on both quantitative and qualitative analyses, using a variety of conceptual frameworks. 26 contributions by 25 authors present and evaluate the situation of women in the legal profession in both common and civil law countries in the developed world. 15 countries from four continents are covered: the United States of America, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, England, Israel, Germany, the Netherlands,... more...

  • International Yearbook for Legal Anthropologyby Richard Potz; René Kuppe

    BRILL 2004; US$ 131.00

    The Yearbook brings together a collection of studies that discuss legal problems raised by cultural differences between people and the law to which they are subject. more...