Laura Snyder

Democratizing Legal Services

Obstacles and Opportunities

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Produktbeschreibung

This book responds to the common objections to alternative business structures, describes the opportunities that such structures offer, exposes how lawyer self-regulation operates to obstruct the modernization of legal services, and includes interviews with persons who have experience with alternative legal service providers in other countries.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 340
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Juli 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 553g
• ISBN-13: 9781498529815
• ISBN-10: 149852981X
• Artikelnr.: 52641338

Autorenporträt

Laura Snyder has been a lawyer, both in law firms and as in-house counsel, for over twenty years. She received her JD from the University of Illinois, a DEA from the University of Paris I, and a TRIUM Executive MBA.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Introduction Part I: The Opposition to Alternative Structures
Chapter 1: Alternative Structures will Undermine Professionalism and Ethics
Chapter 2: There Is No Way to Regulate Alternative Structures Chapter 3:
The Adoption of Alternative Structures Will Jeopardize Self-Regulation of
the Profession Chapter 4: There is No Demonstrated Need, Demand, or Problem
Chapter 5: New Delivery Models Can be Developed Without Changing Rule 5.4
Chapter 6: The Payment of Salary is Adequate Compensation for Non-Lawyers
Chapter 7: No One in Their Right Mind Would Want to Invest in a Law Firm
Chapter 8: Alternative Structures Will Lead to a Consolidated Market
Controlled by Large Law Firms Chapter 9: Alternative Structures Cannot Help
Those Who Canot Pay for Legal Services Chapter 10: Alternative Structures
Will Make Things Harder for Un- and Underemployed Lawyers Chapter 11: The
Burden of Proof Has Not Been Met Part II: The Opportunities Offered by
Alternative Structures Chapter 12: Opportunities for Funding for Legal Aid
Chapter 13: Opportunities for Downstream Markets and the Economy as a Whole
Chapter 14: Opportunities for Lawyers Chapter 15: Opportunities for
In-House Legal Departments in the Public and Private Sectors Chapter 16:
Opportunities for an Improved Regulatory Approach Chapter 17: Opportunities
for Failure Part III: Access to Justice Chapter 18: Unacknowledged
Complexity Chapter 19: Access to Justice Comes in All Shapes and Sizes,
Sometimes Obvious and Sometimes Not Chapter 20: Unmet Need as Human Rights
Crisis Part IV: The (Non)-Regulation of Legal Services and the World Stage
Introduction to Part IV Chapter 21: Abdication of Regulatory Power Chapter
22: International Obligations and Commitments Chapter 23: Endless
Objections and Calls for Evidence and the Lawyer Monopoly on Legal Services
(Or, Having Your Cake and Eating It, Too) Chapter 24: Good Governance
Requires...Actual Governance Part V: Stories (Letting the Old Lady Scream)
Chapter 25: Stories Tom Curran, CEO, Kings Court Trust Alexander Hamilton,
CEO, Radiant Law John Kain, Managing Director, Kain C+C Christopher Mills,
Partner and COO, Schillings Ken Jagger, CEO, AdventBalance David Simon,
Chair, Triton Global Luke Geary, Managing Partner, Salvos Legal and Salvos
Legal Humanitarian Jenny Holloway, Associate Dean, Nottingham Law School
and Nick Johnson, Pro Bono Director, Nottingham Law School Legal Advice
Centre Archana Makol, Director, BT Law Ltd. Greg Tucker, CEO, Maurice
Blackburn Dina Tutungi, General Manager-Personal Injury Victoria, Slater
and Gordon Lawyers Jordan Mayo, Managing Director, Smedvig Capital
Elisabeth Davies, Chair, Legal Services Consumer Panel Michael McDevitt,
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Tandem Legal Group Monica Goyal,
Founder and Principal, Aluvion Law David Clementi